David's Shutter Bug Club

[David In Indy]

Hi Kelda!

The macro function allows you to accurately focus up to an inch away from the subject. It comes in handy for photographing small things like a rain drop on a leaf, or a butterfly. Your camera has a macro lens. I just took a look at your camera's specifications. You will find the macro setting on the back of your camera. It has a little flower icon next to it.

[injest]

yep, that mushroom was like...two inches tall!! looks bigger though in the pic

[Kelda]

Hi Kelda!

The macro function allows you to accurately focus up to an inch away from the subject. It comes in handy for photographing small things like a rain drop on a leaf, or a butterfly. Your camera has a macro lens. I just took a look at your camera's specifications. You will find the macro setting on the back of your camera. It has a little flower icon next to it.

aha! thanks Mr photgrapher man!!!

[David In Indy]

aha! thanks Mr photgrapher man!!!

You're welcome Miss camera lady!!   

[David In Indy]

I LOVE photographing sunrises and sunsets! And we have some very beautiful sunrises and sunsets in my part of the world. In fact we had a nice one tonight. I've seen prettier ones, but this sunset wasn't bad at all for January. The prettiest sunsets occur during the Spring and Summer around here. I saw the firery red and I quickly grabbed my camera and ran out there before it disappeared! Those streaks in the sunset are clouds, or rather contrails. Sorry about the image noise. We all know why that happened, don't we? My ISO was set to 800. I should have used a much lower ISO to reduce the noise.

Conditions: Dusk
Camera Equipment: Canon PowerShot G9
Camera Mode: Manual
Aperture: f/3.2
Shutter Speed: 0.5 sec
White Balance: Custom
Light Meter: Evaluative
Exposure Compensation Value: -1 1/3
ISO: 800
Flash: Off
Other: tripod







This is the same photograph, but I decided to fiddle around with the colors using my imaging software. I pulled out some of the green, and increased the red and blue. This was the result...

[David In Indy]

Then just after the sun went down, the moon appeared!! A FULL moon! It was very bright, so it was impossible to photograph the moon's features. I really should purchase some lens filters for this digital camera.


Conditions: Night
Camera Equipment: Canon PowerShot G9
Camera Mode: Manual
Aperture: f/5.0
Shutter Speed: 2 seconds
White Balance: Custom
Light Meter: Evaluative
Exposure Compensation Value: 0
ISO: 400
Flash: Off
Other: tripod, ND filter

[injest]

WOW!!!

That is amazing, David!!

 

[David In Indy]

Thanks sweetie!! The camera auto selected the ISO in the first picture, and it was too cold out there to stand around and press buttons and turn dials on my camera, so I said frig it.

I remembered to dial down the ISO in the moon picture. So it turned out a little better noise wise.

[David In Indy]

I've also noticed when I use my G9 to take pictures, the pictures look worse when I resize them down to 800x600 or 640x480. And after I upload them they look even worse. I'm not sure if this is my IP's (AOL) fault. I know images lose quality as they are compressed, so I suppose compressing them, or in this case resizing them smaller, also lessens image quality and resolution. Most of the time I leave my camera set to 12 MP (4000x3000)or even RAW. Maybe if I reduce the original image size I wouldn't have this problem. The quality of some of my pictures after the upload is disappointing. I admit many of my high ISO images have noise, but nearly as bad as is appearing on Bettermost. I will investigate this and hopefully I will figure it out.

[injest]

?? I knew they got worse when I blow them UP...

and what is RAW??