Beauty & Possibilities - My Photography Journey

Still tinkering with the settings of the Sony A6000 and today I wanted to learn more about the focus settings. Since I love taking pictures of my 2 dogs, I needed to learn the auto focus settings for moving object.... I set it to Continuos Focusing Mode which is AF-C  with the focus area being wide. I was still having a bit of a problem getting it to focus specifically on my dog's eyes.... This one focused more on Riley's nose...still cute if you ask me...of course I am a bit biased... What I actually had to do was to turn off the face recognition feature and turn on Center Lock-On Auto Focus.... There I was able to choose a specific point to focus on....this is better.... You can see that it is focused on the eyes and not the nose like the last picture Not too big of a difference I guess but, for me, it is important to be able to focus on the eyes....for more impact... Here are the rest photos I took after I got the settings down...also added +3 in ex...

So, it has been years since I've actually picked up a camera. Of course I have my cellphone camera but, it's just a common snapshot that I like to take. I just haven't been in the mood for any artsy shots. I lost my passion for photography. But lately, an ember has started to glow... And here I am now, new camera in hand and try to re-learn all the techniques from manyyyy ages ago... Well, first up, get used to the new cam....my hubby and I decided to do a shift from our favorite camera brand, Nikon to a mirrorless one...Sony. We would have loved to go with the A7 full frame camera...but it is currently out of our budget. So instead, we decided to buy the Sony A6000. We read and heard many good reveiws about it and this will be the camera I will use to get back into the photography groove.... My first step is to get used to the camera....I don't know why but I am sort of shying away from pressing the shutter to the camera. I have a fear that every picture I captur...