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Would this be too much to ask?

20 years ago

IN my learnig process, reading your post and seeing all your pictures I was wondering if you could post an interesting picture where you tried a technique that worked, then tell me how you did it and what kind of camera you have?...I am interested in lighting, close ups and macro.

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aliska12000
20 years ago
These I took with my old camera (Olympus C4000Z) back in April 2003. The first one was in super macro mode and I think I stabilized the camera by resting it tilted on the ground and got lucky it didn't blur.

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The second one is a twig of apricot blossoms on my tree. Someone taught me how to do this. Same camera as above, set aperture priority, f4, turn on regular macro button, zoom (can't get as close with this technique but it works very well). I never shot super macro since.

No flash, just natural light on both.

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sydneydavis
Original Author
20 years ago
I like both but I think I like the bottom the best because it is less common to me.
Thanks for posting!
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harryshoe zone6 eastern Pennsylvania
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Well, I bought a new camera. A Nikon D50 and got the perfect sunset on the first night of my vacation. This is set on Auto Mode with a 200mm zoom lens.
harryshoe zone6 eastern Pennsylvania
20 years ago
I'm sorry, you wanted a macro.

How about a beautiful Assasin Bug. This was taken with my old Fuji FinePix, jus a simple point and shoot in Close Up mode.

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sydneydavis
Original Author
20 years ago
Harry those are great! I love sunsets! Thanks for posting both.
solstice98
20 years ago
There's a few more photos at another posting titled
"sydneydavis assignment". Didn't want you to miss them so here's a link.

Kate

Here is a link that might be useful: sydneydavis assignment
zitro_joe
20 years ago
These are all cameras that I would buy for myself.
Canon:
S80
A620
S3 IS
S2 IS
Powershot Pro 1
Olympus:
SP 500 UZ
SP 310
C7070
C8080

There are lots of good camera but I picked the P&S that I liked the most. This have been tested to have better lenses, better ISO performance and shoot in RAW format. I know this next comment may hit a nerve with some here but; Nikon, Sony, Fuji, Konica-Minotlta P&Ss all fall short of the ones listed. Not that they dont make good cameras, I just dont think they perform as well as the ones listed.

People post pictures from all models and they look excellent, the best way to make a picture look great is to learn how to use your camera.
solstice98
20 years ago
You can do some nice things with cameras that no one would consider buying new. I often urge friends who want to start taking pictures to find something inexpensive on eBay until they decide what they really want. And how they want to use the camera. The rose closeup photo I shot (in the linked page above) was taken last year with an old old old Nikon Coolpix 2.1 - not many features but it still takes nice, sharp pictures and does a decent job on macros.
aliska12000
20 years ago
I try to stay out of the camera wars, but I had a terrible time choosing between the Nikon dlsr's and Canon. Nikon takes sharper photos out of the camera, I have seen many stunning photos, but the tiebreaker mainly was Canon has a better lineup of lenses that are a little cheaper, and less noise at higher ISO's.

I really like the Olympus 8080 if only it had more zoom and IS. A newspaper reporter uses it.

With point and shoot cameras, I have noticed that two many people don't push the envelope and learn techniques whereby they can get better quality photos, plus learning to process them afterwards is almost as important as capturing the photo.

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