Had a long day, and was trying to take a few interesting photographs today.. Unfortunately, to a shot.. they all turned out looking like minorly gussied up snapshots.
I don't know why it is, but when I get film in my SLR.. I suddenly turn in to this creative wanna-be-genius.. but I get my digital, and I don't seem to have it any more. Oh, there are occasions.. but it's like I'm trying to let the shot drop into my lap instead of *looking* for it, like I do with the SLR.
I'm thinking it's probably frustrations with the limitations of the point and shoot.. since I've already had experience on an SLR..
So, it's just a state of mind I guess. Something I have to work on. I need to start learning how to get out of the "snapshot" frame of mind with a point and shoot style camera.
I think it's the digital media that is used compared to film. Digital media you would just take tons of shots because you can simply download it.
When using film you know you have to either pay to develop it or do it yourself so you look for the simply look for the best shot available.
I think it's the digital media that is used compared to film. Digital media you would just take tons of shots because you can simply download it.
When using film you know you have to either pay to develop it or do it yourself so you look for the simply look for the best shot available.
That could be it.. and probably partly is, but I think it's the fact that I feel more at home with fully manual settings now, and have to "re-learn" if you will, how to get a decent shot by letting the camera think it out :)
Or something crazy like that. Who knows. Maybe I'm just simply having a bad day.
I think it's the digital media that is used compared to film. Digital media you would just take tons of shots because you can simply download it.
When using film you know you have to either pay to develop it or do it yourself so you look for the simply look for the best shot available.
That could be it.. and probably partly is, but I think it's the fact that I feel more at home with fully manual settings now, and have to "re-learn" if you will, how to get a decent shot by letting the camera think it out :)
Or something crazy like that. Who knows. Maybe I'm just simply having a bad day.
I have the same camera you do, but I have no experience with the manual settings. I still have to force myself to remember the "extra" settings on the camera. I took one today that I may enter in the framing, but I really want to go back and reshoot it because after getting home and looking at the photo on the computer I realized it was a little bit too dark and I could have used the "fill flash" feature. I think it would make a huge improvement on that shot as well as other I took today. I posted some on my website if you would like to take a look.
I have the same camera you do, but I have no experience with the manual settings. I still have to force myself to remember the "extra" settings on the camera. I took one today that I may enter in the framing, but I really want to go back and reshoot it because after getting home and looking at the photo on the computer I realized it was a little bit too dark and I could have used the "fill flash" feature. I think it would make a huge improvement on that shot as well as other I took today. I posted some on my website if you would like to take a look.
Yah.. that's the problem I have.. forcing myself to remember the modes, and EV settings and flash settings at times. I'm getting a *lot* better with it.. but when I'm indoors, without a tripod, trying to get some good photographs of my niece and nephew.. they always seem to come out snapshottish.. no matter what I do.
Yah.. that's the problem I have.. forcing myself to remember the modes, and EV settings and flash settings at times. I'm getting a *lot* better with it.. but when I'm indoors, without a tripod, trying to get some good photographs of my niece and nephew.. they always seem to come out snapshottish.. no matter what I do.
I think the key to not having the snapshotish look is the cropping. I'm the one talk :P
I've just switched to a dimage while my Sigma is in the shop and I think it's going to be fun to use it. It does so many different things than my Sigma and it's so small, it can take pictures where I wouldn't even think of using the other one. Here's one that I took today.
There's about four inches between me, the computer and the camera. I want to use it mostly for b/w and sepia and take some night shots. Anyway. There's a lot of knowledge you get from using a slr that can be transfered to the ps camera to help you create more than a snapshot. Maybe it's all in your attitude. One thing I know for sure. With only 3.2 megapixels, I can't afford to crop much out. That will help me learn to frame the shot in the camera.
It's shutter is stuck, it's electronics are messed up and it needs to be cleaned. I should have sent it in a couple months ago when it first started to act funny, but I had other things on my priority list that I wanted to get before I bought a small compact camera.
I dropped it off my desk quite a few times with it still plugged in and I suspect that is why the electronics are off. Sometimes it won't start while it's plugged in or sometimes it will start but then it'll shut down as soon as I take a picture and it'll reset itself back to the lowest f stop. I'd say that I might be the cause of whatever problems it has because I've really been rough with it. If it costs a lot to repair, I'll probably use that as an excuse to get the SD10 if I bonus next month, so all is not lost.
