Cat,
Your bee shot is really nice and so are your onions. Nice color in both!
Daniel,
I love your photos!! I use the Canon 40W . I should have focused on the swan. I may have used the autofocus instead of the manuel. Is it better to focus in live view where you can zoom into the subject to get a close up of the focus? Do you first set the AE and lock it in and then set the focus? AS you can tell, I am still unsure about a lot of what it takes to get a really good photo.
Thanks, Leslie H.
Daniel,
Thanks. I went to the website. This was the photo I was referring to in my original question. I went on to the website.
Henry,
When you focus manually, do you use live view so you can zoom in to the subject to make sure you have focused correctly?
Leslie :?:
Leslie,
Thank you. I didn't understand how to set the points separately for exposure and focus. This makes sense!!
(nice name!)
Leslie :-D
If you can shoot in raw, this will help with not loosing quality (which happens with jpeg). Also, when you photo edit, save as a tiff and again you won't loose quality as you edit. You only need to save as jpeg if you are emailing the photo.
Leslie
What helps is to determine what your subject is - eg. the purple flower or the bug on the flower. If it is the bug, that is the area you want in sharp focus and that critter could be somewhere on the "rule of thirds" guide line; is it the entire flower or the stamen or a particular leaf. I hope this helps! Supposedly, I have been told, a radial flower is often centered and tightly photographed. I am fairly new to this hobby (passion) of mine but this is what a professional suggested at a workshop I took with him. And PRACTICE, PRACTICE............
Leslie
I use photo elements and shoot in raw. It is easy to edit photos in camera raw and then if you need more help you can switch to regular photo elements editing. An excellent guide book is The photoshop elements 9 book for digital photographers by Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski.
Good Luck
I am waiting for the reviews to come out on the new Canon G13 camera. I love travel photography - especially people in different cultures. What I like about this camera is that it has the varie-angle lens (so people don't realize you are taking their photo; it is light weight and has a hot shoe for an external flash, and will shoot in raw. I think it comes out sometime this month. It is a high end point and shoot since the lens don't change. My last trip I took my Canon 40D and it was too heavy for me to carry around. It is a great camera for my camera club outings and family photos but too much for travel.
The auto focus zones and the metering methods (evaluative, partial etc) use the same icons for both exposure and focus. In order to switch is it necessary to lock in exposure and then reset the zones for the focus point?
I have a question. If you focus on the closest object and the main subject is behind the object (ex. swan in back of high grasses), will the subject still bein focus.