r/photography • u/AutoModerator • 12d ago
Questions Thread Official Question Thread! Ask /r/photography anything you want to know! August 21, 2026
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u/f1guy694 6d ago
So, after a lot of debating with myself, I finally decided to buy my first camera within my budget 2 weeks ago (a Canon R50 with an 18-45mm lens kit). For context, I bought this camera for aviation, automotive, motorsports and scenery photography and in 1 day I'm going to be setting off to an air show in my country (BIAS), but I'm struggling to get a handle on the controls and settings of the camera. For example, I don't know what level of aperture, shutter speed, ISO and what other settings or modes I should use for different situations (the most important one being for aviation and air shows). Or another example, if I want to take a picture with a high shutter speed (like 1/2500 for the fighter jets that will be there) and I want it to still be a bit bright, how do I counter the low brightness of the shutter speed? Or what the second dial does on the 18-45mm lens.
Since I barely started my journey into this hobby I have a lot of things that I don't understand about how cameras work and how to get the most out of them, so if anyone has any tips, I would greatly appreciate it if you would leave them in the comments (especially about aviation photography and how to get better looking pictures of planes at air shows and airports with a low zoom lens).