Meta's Best Digital Photography Tips For Beginners Plus Digital Photography Reviews and Sony Digital Camera Settings

How To Photograph The Best Digital Photography By Nature Photographer Meta Gatschenberger

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Meta’s Best Digital Photography Tips For Beginners

Award Winning Western North Carolina Nature Photographer Meta Gatschenberger considers North Carolina Nature Photography an Art Form with its own unique set of Physical Challenges.

Whether you’re experimenting with High Speed Shutter Speeds for Wildlife Photography, or you’re trying out different Apertures for a Wider Depth of Field in Macro Photography, Nature Photography takes Knowledge, Patience, Persistence and Creativity to successfully Photograph the Best Natural Beauty of the Great Outdoors!

Meta is very active in Western North Carolina Photography, winning many North Carolina Photography Contests and Photography Awards.

Award Winning Western North Carolina Nature Photographer Meta Gatschenberger, RN, shoots with Sony Digital Cameras and Vintage Minolta Maxxum AF Lenses.

Photos By Meta – Red Tailed Hawk

Meta’s Best Digital Photography Tips For Beginners covers many areas of Digital Photography, including Photography Composition Tips, Landscape Photography Tips, HDR Photography Tips, Waterfall Photography Tips, Macro Photography Tips, Hummingbird Photography Tips, Wildlife Photography Tips and Astrophotography Tips.

Meta’s Best Digital Photography Reviews covers Minolta AF Lenses, Digital Camera Accessories, Digital Photography Books and Digital Camera Filters.

Meta’s Best Digital Camera Settings explains Sony Digital Camera Settings and Exposure: Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO.

Meta’s “Red Tailed Hawk” (Photo: Left) was shot with a Minolta AF 70–210mm f/4 Telephoto Lens mounted on a Sony Digital Camera.

Meta's Best Digital Photography Tips For Beginners

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Meta’s Best Digital Camera Gear Reviews For Beginners

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Photos By Meta – Fire On The Mountain

Meta’s Best Digital Photography Gear For Beginners

• Meta’s Best Minolta AF Lenses
• Meta’s Best Digital Camera Accessories
• Meta’s Best Digital Photography Books
• Meta’s Best Digital Camera Filters

• Understanding The Exposure Triangle: Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO

• Meta’s Best Sony Digital Camera Settings

• How To Setup Back Button Auto Focus

• How To Use The Sony Imaging Edge Mobile App

• How To Webcam With Your Sony Digital Camera

Photos By Meta – Orange Fireworks

The Best Vintage Minolta AF Lenses For Sony Digital Cameras

Many Beginner Nature Photographers don’t know that Vintage Minolta AF Lenses, originally designed for Minolta AF 35mm SLR Full Frame Film Cameras, will Mount and Auto Focus on Sony Digital Cameras; Sony A-Mount Cameras and Sony E-Mount Cameras (With New LA-EA5 A-Mount Adapter). For Beginners, this is a huge cost saving advantage over buying new Sony Lenses!

Meta’s “Orange Fireworks” (Photo: Left) was shot with a “Nifty Fifty”, Minolta AF 50mm f/1.4 Prime Lens mounted on a Sony Digital Camera.

There were nearly 17 million Minolta AF Lenses; Minolta AF Prime Lenses, Minolta AF Telephoto Lenses and Minolta AF Macro Lenses, manufactured in Japan by Minolta Company Limited, between 1985 and 2006, making these Vintage Minolta AF Lenses very easy to find in “Mint” or “Like New Condition” for about 10% of the Cost of a New Sony Lens (Average Price: $65 vs $650). Meta has a Vintage Collection of her Best Minolta AF Lenses, made of heavy metal, manufactured in Japan, from 1985–1993.

Meta's Best Digital Photography Tips For Beginners

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