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Water shots and sunsets with digital camera

seriousbert45
01/15/05 4:34 AM GMT
Ok well heres my question, I have had a few real basic black and white photograpy classes in school, but anyway i bought myself a cannon powershot A70 and it like it a lot i have a few questions on what i can do to imporve water shots and sunsets. What can I do with my digital camera to get like good water stopping effects in my photos i guess is my biggest question though thanks in advance for your advice :)
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01/15/05 5:51 AM GMT
It's very difficult to answer that question... it's a bit like saying, "Hi, I just bought a new car and would like to know how to drive it".... The only advice I can offer without more info. is that you want to increase to shutter speed if you want to be able to capture things like water droplets with alot of detail, or slow it down if you want to get that "time lapse" effect. I'm not sure if this is what you were meaning when you said "water stopping effects" though.
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noobguy
01/16/05 12:13 AM GMT
You say you would like to take better sunsets. Could you tell us what is wrong with the images you have taken. Perhaps you could upload one of your images and provide us with a link, this will probably get you a response pretty hastily.
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Crusader
01/16/05 1:50 PM GMT
For sunsets you will most definitely need a tripod. I have a Canon A80 myself and without a tripod you really struggle to get a good sunset shot without getting motion blur.
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::fotobob
01/16/05 6:58 PM GMT
I'm not certian wha you mean by better images of sunsets and water either. My guess is that you have set your camera on automatic exposure and have been firing away.Sunsets, of course, will look washed out because the meter is lookinfg at a bright light source and adjusting for that mid point exposure. I would recommend taking your camera off of automatic and do some good old fashioned photography. Bracket your exposures. A couple under exposed, normal, and a couple over exposed. KEEP NOTES!! Soon you will learn how to "eyeball" a correction of your exposures to produce the effect that you are looking for. As for water. The only thing that I can think of is that you are speaking of reflections and bright highlights kicking back to much light. A polarizer filter may be the answer to your problem. Be sure to purchase a circular ploarizer as these are the ones that work wiith automatic exposure cameras. The beauty of all of this is that now, in this digital age, you can get instant feedback. Not like when I was growing up. Film was always expensive and took days to get feedback. Another nice thing about digital is that it is free. Get a hunch and shoot a bunch. Study your results and apply your results to you images. Keep your camera off of automatic. You will be happy that you did.
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