My Equipment Element

My Equipment

Canon EOS Rebel 300D Digital SLR

Canon EFS 18-55mm

Shoulder strap

6.3 MP CMOS sensor, DIGIC Image Processor, and compatibility with dozens of EF lenses and EOS system accessories

7-point wide area AF with superimposed focusing points, 3 AF modes, 12 shooting modes, automatic and enhanced exposure

Controls, highly adaptive white balance controls and intelligent pop-up flash with automatic red-eye reduction.

• Canon EF-S 60mm f2.8 Macro USM

• Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 III

I've experimented with this lens, taking shots of my dog from a distance, swans and other wildlife by the river trent.I played around with various depths of field - the shots show texture - the frog in a local pond, reflections particularly of the Canadian Geese swimming on the river. I've also taken a few landscape shots. Some of the images of the swans are slightly blurred due to me focusing on other areas as opposed to the bird. I was also getting used to a different type of lens.

• Hama Travel Tripod

My camera is quite basic but I feel it is fine to initially learn about photography. I bought my camera second hand from Chris Goodhead’s camera shop in Burton.

I find the download software quite slow but its quite handy to see an overview of all my shots on the camera.

I find the view finder quite small so for distance shots its quite difficult to view faces and product detail unless you zoom in quite close.