dayum thanks for the critiques. I admit that I took most all the pics in AUTO mode (including white balance). I started messing with the manual controls today but still don't have a clue as to what I'm doing yet. Need to read the manual.



One thing I am having trouble with is the background getting washed out. Is there some setting I can mess with to get good foreground focus and still get the background.

I was taking some pics of my car and the background just didn't want to show. When taking pics of with tall trees the scenery behind it gets bloched out in white (second pic). examples... any advice?

 

Ok what you are talking about there is the DOF (depth of field).

DOF is a good thing really and the optimal is to have what is called boca. Boca is when the background does a sort of soft progressive fade to blur. This is honestly the way the human eye sees things. Take a look at something like the back of the chair with your eye and notice how when you focus on one thing the rest of the items behind it are a bit soft.

If you want everything clear and unblurred then you will need to extend you shutter time and down your aperature, it is a little harder to do in broad daylight than it is in dusk or low light settings.

BTW extending the shutter and lowering the aperature does not work on moving objects

 

thanks nightshade. :thumbup:

 

HA, thats exactly what i've been doing. I take three identical pics of a scene to compare which came out the best on the comp. I wish the lcd was a little bigger on this camera. Those sunset pics look beautiful.

 

i agree...

just in case..."downing" the aperture means increasing the number in the f-stop, which also means making the aperture smaller.

 

just so I have this straight...

extending shutter time = increasing exposure

down aperature = decreasing iso speed?

 

No lowering your aperature closes the amount of light the lense will allow through it.

 

adjusting the aperature is adjusting how much light is going through the lens to the film.

F2, F4, F8, F16, etc. etc.

 

Yeah I guess I should have said F-Stop instead of aperature...a lot of times people know one or the other.

ISO adjusts how sensitive to light the "film" is which means you can shoot at faster shutter speeds and lower F-Stop setings. For example a 100 speed film shoots a slower shutter speed than an 800 ISO film will.

 

Messed around some more today with the camera... If you guys are bored can you critique them please.

http://www.reaction-image.net/gallery/album171?page=1