Nice, I like the first pic and 3rd one. I see you are playing with 50mm now. At f1.8 only a small portion of the subject will be in focus if you take upclose like in 3rd pic, you can try experimenting by increasing the aperture value you will see different results.
Yes I am learning the new lens. I just came off of auto controls on my camera so it's definitely a learning curve. I just want to set my camera one time and takes photos. But it doesn't work that way. The first tries weren't too good - they came out way over exposed and blurry.
That's true , every photo mostly would need a different settings depending on the situation. Once you know how to play around with Aperture/ShuterSpeed and ISO things get easy. The handbook comes with Canon is very good, at least it used to be almost a decade back when I started. I am mostly self taught using the handbook , it teaches lot of techniques with examples. May be we would do a spring/summer steemit photowalk for a small group!
Hey, there's an idea!!