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Okay! Back to more pleasant things--
All the images on this blog are taken with a point-and-shoot digital camera. Up until May 2011, I used a Sony DSC-H3, which is long out of production. Now it's considered an "old" camera. I had it since 2007. It was a point-and-shoot digital camera with a macro setting. Terrific little camera, at least until the viewscreen got hopelessly fogged with tiny scratches from scraping on the vinyl zipper every time I took it in or out of the case...use screen protectors!
Then I got a Canon PowerShot G12, after a year of research and asking other photographers for advice. The biggest reason I wanted a different camera was I lusted after a tilting, rotating viewscreen, for all the times I was at awkward angles in tight spaces, working so close to my little subjects. It has a nice big viewscreen.
I don't know how you people with cell phones get such great shots. I find it really awkward because I often simply can't see what the phone is seeing unless I lie down, and I'm just not doing that.
I almost always dial down the exposure, up to 2 full stops, to under-expose, so I don't lose detail in bright areas. When they're downloaded into Picasa, I tweak the exposure and contrast as needed. For the record, I do not tweak or saturate the color--no need!--but other than that, what you see is what I got. Really! A point-and-shoot camera, edited in Picasa. If I can do it, anybody can. See How to take crappy pictures in the woods for more details.
That's all. I run off into the woods, take a whole bunch of pictures, run home and inject them into my computer, via Picasa. Hello, 3:00am!
I have a tripod, and I got all excited when it occurred to me that I could use it, but I hated carrying it, so I don't. Besides, most of what I take pictures of is at ground level. Good thing I found it at Goodwill for $10 (plus another dang $15 to order the missing quick-release mount). I keep saying I'm going to get/make a beanbag to rest the camera on for ground-level shots, but I still haven't.
A pal gave me a 3" tripod which I was very excited about but even that is too tall most of the time!
My whole camera is as big as the flash on a friend's set-up, which I enjoyed pointing out to him as he set up his tripod and camera with its big fat heavy macro lens, for every single shot. Once I said "Hey, lemme see that thing" and hefted it. I said some expressive swear words, and handed it back (in his defense, his photos are fabulous. He likes bugs, which are often not at ground level, so he can actually use a tripod, and they can move, so he needs that flash sometimes).
I used the Sony so much that the markings on the controls wore off.
I almost always dial down the exposure, up to 2 full stops, to under-expose, so I don't lose detail in bright areas. When they're downloaded into Picasa, I tweak the exposure and contrast as needed. For the record, I do not tweak or saturate the color--no need!--but other than that, what you see is what I got. Really! A point-and-shoot camera, edited in Picasa. If I can do it, anybody can. See How to take crappy pictures in the woods for more details.
That's all. I run off into the woods, take a whole bunch of pictures, run home and inject them into my computer, via Picasa. Hello, 3:00am!
I have a tripod, and I got all excited when it occurred to me that I could use it, but I hated carrying it, so I don't. Besides, most of what I take pictures of is at ground level. Good thing I found it at Goodwill for $10 (plus another dang $15 to order the missing quick-release mount). I keep saying I'm going to get/make a beanbag to rest the camera on for ground-level shots, but I still haven't.
A pal gave me a 3" tripod which I was very excited about but even that is too tall most of the time!
My whole camera is as big as the flash on a friend's set-up, which I enjoyed pointing out to him as he set up his tripod and camera with its big fat heavy macro lens, for every single shot. Once I said "Hey, lemme see that thing" and hefted it. I said some expressive swear words, and handed it back (in his defense, his photos are fabulous. He likes bugs, which are often not at ground level, so he can actually use a tripod, and they can move, so he needs that flash sometimes).
I used the Sony so much that the markings on the controls wore off.