Playing around with DSLR

My father used to have and SLR camera when I was young. It was fully manual of course and usually the feeling when getting the pics back from the photo shop was that of at least a mild disappointment even when trying to shoot normal scenes.

After a couple of hours of playing around with the 550D it seems the automation makes much better settings choices than I do, but it's still fun to have the fully manual features there for old-fashioned tricks like this, new way being achieving the same with Photoshop of course.