Big news. I have finally gotten over my fear of the manual settings on my camera. The world of photography is before me, I am a convert from the auto settings! I seriously feel like I’ve discovered a whole new world. And it all came from a tutorial on Centsational Girl’s blog about better photos using natural light. Wow.

Automatic setting

Automatic with flash- ack!

Holy crap, manual mode!

Got light, now shutter speed?

And done!

The realization has been made that my camera, that I’ve not liked up until today, is actually an awesome camera- I just needed to play with the settings! And I’m totally putting Photoshop on my Wish List…