Pics from my new D60 in Manual Mode

Thought i'd share a few pics i took with my new Nikion D60, when i took it out of auto mode for the first time. Please bear in mind i've never used anything other than a point and press before and as of 8 days ago i had no idea what terms like depth of field or aperture or iso meant.

Anyway armed with a tiny amount of knowledge gained from a dslr website, i put the camera in manual mode and took some pics of a flower with various aperture settings to see if i could vary the depth of field, using the light meter to manually set the shutter speed for the right exposure.

Both pics show the same flower against a brick wall in my back garden. The first was taken with a narrow aperture to get a deep depth of field and you can clearly see the brick wall. For the second i opened up the aperture to get a shallow depth of field, and the wall has blurred nicely into the background and your eye is really drawn to the flower.

I also have a couple of shots of waterfall where i played with the shutter speed to get different effects on the moving water. Depending on how much i get mocked for the flower pics i may post them on here too.

[yorkie_chris]

Cool.

Looking good. Caution, it get's addictive. lol

http://forum.photographers.co.uk/phpBB2/index.php is a good forum for tips.

I have no idea about manual mode and you lost me at "I took it out of auto"

Very cool pics I must say.