Mr.GoodCat
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The best pointer I can give you is to pickup Understanding Exposure (http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Exposure-Photographs-Digital-Updated/dp/0817463003). If you read it, truly understand it, and practice, you'll be taking great photographs in no time.
EDIT: White Balance, use a white card setting. That is set a custom white balance usig your camera by holding a white piece of paper near the HPS light and taking your measurement from there. This will make it seem like normal light.
As far as ISO, you need to understand the ISO -> Aperture -> Shutter tradeoff. In low light, I crank the ISO to 6400+ but that is because I have a full frame camera. Otherwise, I would think that camera maxes out at 1600 with considerable noise.
Since I only have the PDF for my Canon I haven't yet messed around with white balance on the camera. I use UFRaw or GIMP with the RAW handling installed, and adjust the white balance on the computer. Sometimes it looks good, other times, not so much.
I really wish to hell we had the hard copy manual somewhere. It's a good camera, Mr. GC, but at 8MP it's a little lacking once you start to blow up the photographs. We bought ours in '04.
Damn! And here I was trained to do ALL of it the old school way (by hand, with Exacto knives and amber and ruby liths) because, according to my prof at the time, "These newfangled computers will NEVER be able to compete with hand-drawn graphics and color separations!"
Dumb shit.
In the meantime, I just discovered Amazon Warehouse. :eek:
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