Joolez Talk

Going overboard

Looks like the ghost and I have to do a phototour soon! We went heavily overboard with the equipment we bought this month. And I just realized I forgot to get a macro-lens, yikes! And all along that was the only thing I wanted. Instead now I have a grey filter, a skylight filter, a polar filter, a teleconverter, a battery pack and several close-up lenses, just not the macro. Dimwit, moi!

Gotta have to get it maybe tomorrow or next week. Although the close-up lenses are pretty good already.

Took a shot of Scottie today only a few inches away from his face and I could almost count every single hair on the shot. Extraordinary! Very happy, and now I need to take a couple of photographs, otherwise this is rather useless.

New Pictures

I uploaded some new pictures on: Snap Happy Impressions

Camera

today I changed the settings on my camera to superfine (*.tif), enhanced color and 2560 x 1920 px, and tried the same objects with different ISO settings from 100 - 800. That way I found out I can still take a good shot indoors, I only have to smooth the picture later because it get's quite grainy with ISO 800.

I tried wrapping a single sheet of kleenex around the flash so the lighting is not as harsh as it usually is. Also I took shots towards a window, with bright light in the back, and with some adjusting of light, brightness, color and so forth I still get pretty good pictures. Also I tried saving some settings to memory so I can use them quicker and don't need to do all the adjusting everytime. That should come in handy when I need it quick.

I really have to get out on the weekend so I can try it outside while there is daylight. Sometimes I just wish the cats would stay still. It's not easy experimenting with them. Most shots are blurred. Then again I could set the camera to another mode for moving objects.

I still have to figure out how to adjust the manual focus. It never really comes out "sharp". That's probably because I never wear my glasses. What's that Carly Simon song? "You're so vain ....." ;-)

Now I am trying Photo Impact XL. I haven't quite figured that one out, but I hope I am getting there.