Nothing to See Here...

[Belle Ella]

Truth be told, outside of the conversation, I get bored sometimes with non-photo TR's. They just aren't the same. And you better believe mine will be up. I don't post every single photo I take, but I do post a majority of them. Hopefully I'm able to get as many as I'm wanting to.

 

[Sherry E]

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[Belle Ella]

I love letting loose with my camera at DL! Mind you plenty of others could easily do more damage in sheer numbers on a memory card since P&S cameras are so easy to use. It can take me a few minutes to get one photo depending on how long it takes me to get my settings right so I'll bracket the exposures on a photo to find the right settings that I want. I usually do it manually although there is an auto-bracket option on my camera that I have yet to try out. Maybe I'll give that a try this year although I still prefer fine tuning it all myself. But I generally go for the quality of my photos rather than just snap-snapping away. And I still usually get a lot although they are nowhere near as awesome as some, but I'm also still using a bginners SLR. In a perfect world I would have a wide angle lens and a low f value by the time go so I can play more with depth of field and what's in focus and what's not but that just is not going to happen. I really want one just for night shots. Someday. Someday. I'm trying to figure out if it's worth it for my to bring my tripod this year or not. I know I'll kick myself if I don't try and get some nighttime shots with the Halloween decorations but with the D23 event I'm not sure what the crowds will be like at night. It shouldn't be as bad as the expo was last year at night, but I'm betting it will make a difference.

 

[Sherry E]

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[Belle Ella]

Back to hot camera talk for a second, you are right about P&S being very good quality nowadays. Part of it is that the megapixels on the cameras are now so high (I hardly ever see any P&S cameras belowe a 10MP anymore) and they do have a lot of different settings to work with now that aids in taking better photos. For the most part I can still tell between a P&S being used and an SLR, but most of that is attributed to how the photgrapher framed the shot and what's in focus, what isn't, and if flash was used. After taking my photography class and using a P&S and an SLR for the same photo I can spot a couple of differences now and then. And I can definitely tell the difference in my own photos which I used my P&S on and which I used my SLR, and which ones I prefer

 

[Sherry E]

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[Belle Ella]

Most of my photos were all done with my SLR last year. Really the only time I was using my P&S was for some of my character photos when I had to pass a camera off to a stranger. I don't trust too many people with my Nikon!

Most people who use a P&S like you said just want the photo for the sake of having it. Not to say there's anything wrong with that, but it's all about convenience. Point and shoot. Two easy steps that just about anybody can accomplish. Technically you can do the same with an SLR if you leave it on auto but why spend the money on it if you aren't going to take advantage of a hands on/controlled approach. I love, love, love taking photos and it's totally worth it for me to spend an extra minute of tweaking if necessary to get the shot that I want. It's funny though, that some people wont try other settings on their P&S when usually all you have to do is just turn a little dial. I know not all of them are like that, but many are, and they give you a little picture to describe what it's used for. Then again, I forget to do that with my P&S ...

I am bringing my Kodak along with me again, probably to be used in the same fashion of character photos when I don't have anybody I trust to take the photo for me, which will probably be all unless there's a PP photographer there who will be familiar with a Nikon. In theory I want to lave my Nikon at the hotel for a day or two and focus some time just to rides and have the Kodak in case I need it since it's so much smaller. The problem there is that I'm so paranoid about missing the perfect shot because I didn't have my camera. You never know what will happen and what will catch your eye or your interest. That was the first thing I learned in my photography class: don't leave your camera behind. When you don't have it, something amazing will pop up before you.

 

[Sherry E]

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[Belle Ella]

Aha. I totally forgot about my pre-Nikon days with my P&S, but it has to be said that it wasn't your average P&S-fit in the the palm of your pocket kind of camera. It had a 12x zoom on, some basic manual features that are the same on my SLR and well, it looked like this:

My biggest indicator of when I used that camera was the fact that I used flash. I abhor flash. Hate, hate, hate it. For the most part, lol. I should probably clarify that I'm referring to on-camera/dedicated flash. The light is just too harsh for me and detracts from a photo. I will very, very, very rarely use flash (if ever at all) when shooting with an SLR and that's usually how I can tell. Someday I'll have me a flash speedlight I cannot wait (along with a new camera body and a wide angle lens).

 

[Sherry E]

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[kaoden39]

Hmm, I do believe I have seen The Grove before. I love the sparrows.

 

[Sherry E]

Hmm, I do believe I have seen The Grove before. I love the sparrows.

Yeah, I couldn't take all the photos that I wanted to take 2 weekends ago because my camera battery died when I got to The Grove and my cell phone camera will only function well for about a minute, in the right light. I also couldn't get the other things I wanted to get on camera at Farmers Market for those same reasons, so there's more of that coming too. I had to play catch up/make-up with the photos yesterday, and I was already out running errands across the street from both FM and The Grove, so it was as good a time as any to do it!!

Love the sparrows too.

Anyway, next post coming in a minute.

 

[kaoden39]

Yeah, I couldn't take all the photos that I wanted to take 2 weekends ago because my camera battery died when I got to The Grove and my cell phone camera will only function well for about a minute, in the right light. I also couldn't get the other things I wanted to get on camera at Farmers Market for those same reasons, so there's more of that coming too. I had to play catch up/make-up with the photos yesterday, and I was already out running errands across the street from both FM and The Grove, so it was as good a time as any to do it!!

Love the sparrows too.

Anyway, next post coming in a minute.

Yay!!

 

[joyfulDisneytears]

Trying to avoid being seen by a former aquaintance...that *totally* sounds like exactly what I'd do! Or turn around and find a shop window to stare into for a couple minutes until I thought they were gone. My reasons are usually more shallow...since I've become pooh-sized I get really embarassed to see anyone who I haven't run into since I was thinner.

I'm going to do a mini-TR for my visit to AZ so I can show off all my pictures I think. Didn't do anything super interesting, but I sure did use the camera!

 

[Sherry E]

Yay!!

Yay!

That is...if I can get stupid Photobucket to cooperate and work in unison with my stupid PC.

Trying to avoid being seen by a former aquaintance...that *totally* sounds like exactly what I'd do! Or turn around and find a shop window to stare into for a couple minutes until I thought they were gone. My reasons are usually more shallow...since I've become pooh-sized I get really embarassed to see anyone who I haven't run into since I was thinner.

I'm going to do a mini-TR for my visit to AZ so I can show off all my pictures I think. Didn't do anything super interesting, but I sure did use the camera!

I don't like running into people who last saw me when I was thin - especially at my thinnest point - because I've gained so much weight since then and they wouldn't recognize me, most likely. It's always the ones who have not seen you in a while that notice the changes most!! If I run into someone who just saw me two years ago or has seen me since I gained weight, it's not as big of a deal. So I am not above that at all - I will definitely go out of my way to avoid someone who has not seen me recently! But yesterday, I was mainly avoiding that lady because of her association with my ex-boss and ex-co-worker. If there had even been a window on my side of the street, you can bet I would have plastered my face to it to loook "busy." There were only bushes and people's front doors behind me!! All I had handy was the camera!

Yes, do a mini-TR and show off the photos!! As you can see, we all love photos on the DIS!!


Anyway, okay, back to Photobucket so I can copy the rest of the IMG codes for my next post, which will be coming up uno momento.

 

[Sherry E]

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