Jennifer,
Thanks for that tip---I had never thought about making an "index" for my camera! What a great idea!! I will do the first part of it today. I can just make the file name the EXIF data so I don't forget which is which when I have them printed.
I was outside yesterday, not a cloud in the sky, but with long, dark shadows (it was around 4:00 p.m.) No matter what metering mode I set my camera on, in auto, I was getting weird blown-out sections and underexposed shadows. Even the fill flash looked weird. My camera was really forcing a low shutter speed (on auto) to compensate, even at f/5.6 and I needed to hand-hold b/c I was crawling around on the ground shooting my son. (Pictures, that is!) So I used sunny-16 to figure out how to keep my shutter at around 1/100 and I got it right, finally! That and figuring out how to expose the moon properly is about how far I'm willing to go with complicated technique until I'm better at it.
Thank you, ladies, for all your encouragement and advice! I am excited and renewed about figuring it out. I'm sorry I sounded so "Eeyore" in my post---boy, yesterday was a bad day. To put it lightly!
I have been buoyed up by your encouragement and interaction over the past few months, and am very grateful I found DD (besides the awesome product, great customer service, and not to mention the sales!).
All the best---
Sarah
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