What Lens to buy

[River Hunter]

I just got the canon rebel eos 1000d and it came with the 18-55mm lens. Really just getting started and I want to be able to shoot much longer distances than this lens will go. What lens would you suggest I get.


after some research how about this lens that won't brake the bank. Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6



Thanks

[MudHog]

One thing I've learned in doing my research on lenses, no lens of a big range, such as the 18-200, will give good quality throughout the range. Some lenses will do great on the low end, while some will do great on the high end.

My next lens to buy will be a 70-300 IS USM. IS for stabilization and USM for a faster focus.

[River Hunter]

So I am shooting these shots in TV mode with the shutter speed max 1/4000. Give me some advise on what I need to do to make them better. Keep in mind I have no idea what i am doing besides reading the manual






Also a couple more I took







Thanks for your input

[landscaper]

The last two are great. Read up on the rule of thirds, and practice that.

Is it the blur in the dog shots that concerns you? Be sure you're shooting with auto focus and image stabilization turned on. That shutter speed with that much light should be more than enough to freeze the dog, frizbee, and eliminate motion blur from panning and depressing the shutter button, so I'm guessing you just need practice panning with the subject and keeping it in focus. Something I don't have down pat yet myself.

[River Hunter]

Yea I went to the post that came from the refuge and it shed some light on this. It will just come with practice and time i guess.

[landscaper]

Yeah, the whole deal takes lots of practice. Learning photography techniques, your camera controls, how to see light and what it is going to do to your shot...all take lots of shooting.

I started out by shooting in "program" mode. The camera is pretty good at figuring out the best settings for a shot. I would snap a few, look at my results, and if I liked what I got, I studied the settings the camera chose along with the conditions. If I didn't like it I would switch to Aperture priority, and then Shutter priority and play with the settings until I got what I was looking for. This helped me begin to know how to get the camera to do what I wanted. Once I was comfortable with that I switched to Av and then Tv going through the same process. Now I'm shooting only in Manual (when circumstances allow, that is - sometimes the Manual process is too slow) and this is really helping me learn all the controls of the camera and how to make adjustments on the fly just by using the meters and such in the view finder and the thumb and finger controls. I've been working at it for about 2 years and have taken somewhere close to 10k pictures and I feel like I'm just barely scratching the surface of what I need to learn, but it is a lot of fun.

[River Hunter]

Thanks for the info Landscaper. I have been reading a lot here and other sites and tried a few more things and it seemed to get a little better. These were taken first thing this morning with a lot less light.

[teul2]

Much better.