The background was a white poster board... can't tell a lick since the light was pointed at the kiwi and not the background. Basically, the background was highly underexposed. Not sure how to duplicate this effect with a point and shoot. Sorry.
For me it is the lighting and the focus. If I want a black background I point my light sourse at the subject and not the background. If the background shows up a little I use more contrast to make it darker. Try it and see what happens. Show us the results. We will help as much as we can.
Sonja
Use any background, grey sky pale yellow, and if you subject allow it, played with brightness or better with something like 'curves' in photoshop to 'blow up' the background. For black oue .. 'blow down' the brightness and the curves. Does not work with all subject though
Lionel
I just use an A3 size piece of black card or white card. They are recycled and still have my dads business presentations on the other side.
All of the photos in my profile (body challenge is my first with a new camera) are taken with a point & shoot.
If you let it auto-set the exposure while pointed at a bright object, it makes everything darker, so if you then keep your finger half pressed and look at a dark object, it will appear black.
Same thing the other way round. Point it at something dark, then move it to something light, the light thing will be very white and look over exposed.
Hi Paul, most cameras are referred to Point and shoot if they aren't SLR (or DSLR). My G2 has basically all the same functions as a SLR (spot metering, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, Fully manual, etc). We just don't have the bragging rights that the D-SLR people do :)
Originally posted by rogerspaul:
so your saying my cam is a point and shoot? I thought that may be the case but I have had different opinions? It does have manual mode?
Cheers Paul
