{"id":909,"date":"2026-05-06T10:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/?p=909"},"modified":"2026-05-10T07:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:33:27","slug":"teaching-alpha-gen-2013-photography-lesson-1-manual-focus-with-basic-50mm-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"Teaching photography to the Alpha Gen  &#8211; get focused !"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For older Millennials like me just a quick explanation &#8211; Alpha Gen are kids born in 2013 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So for the first lesson, we took our most available and quite patient model &#8211; Theo The Siberian (full family name \ud83d\ude09 ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First step : simply getting comfortable with a camera, basic settings, framing and having fun with basic 50mm lens to make small compositions with manual focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC00224.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC00224.jpg 794w, https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC00224-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC00224-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For older Millennials like me just a quick explanation &#8211; Alpha Gen are kids born in 2013 \ud83d\ude09 So for the first lesson, we took our most available and quite patient model &#8211; Theo The Siberian (full family name \ud83d\ude09 ). First step : simply getting comfortable with a camera, basic settings, framing and having fun with basic 50mm lens to make small compositions with manual focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mads-lens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}