Originally posted by rawr Amongst all the threads here about $3000+ cameras and $2000 lenses, it's nice to see this thread re-appear...
That last shot is very likeable. Very fluid, great colours.
Thanks rawr, as always, for your kind words and encouragement.
That last shot was of an elephant ear (plant) in front of a neighbor's home - I walk past it frequently and at the right time of day ~3:30pm the sun shines through some of the (huge) leaves and gives really interesting lighting and vivid green hues. I normally would run home and grab my Pentax dSLR -
as in this shot from my K-x
But I realized for a lot of daylight shots, small p&s cameras give little away to dSLRs -
except for those close to 100% crops (and very few people do that)
Of course now that I mention it -
from yesterday's walk....
A few weeks ago:
The 100% crop -
(this is actually a 100% crop off the second photo I took of this same pose -
where the hand and fish were better positioned relative to the shadow in the background)
But the point is the tiny <$80 p&s does acquit itself quite well.
on the main road, and there was a billboard in front of it too.
Originally posted by barondla Have you tried taping a warming gel over the tiny built in flash? Doesn't have to be optical quality since you aren't shooting thru it.
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Have to get my old Optimus PnS with optical viewfinder out of the drawer.
Yes, that's very good idea, thank you.
But I shoot a lot using slow-sync flash - where the coolness isn't that much of a problem -
it's only when I shoot the very few straight regular sync flash that I find the balance too cool
(compared to the slow-sync flash shots)
and mostly I can correct it post processing pretty easily by adding red and/or orange to the balance.
eg: from a few days ago on my Canon G15
not bad for a regular sync flash shot - just a bit cool for my taste
(especially compared to my other slow-sync flash shots that have a lot more ambient light captured)
simply adding some red - gets
better to my eyes.