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Welcome, I'm a newby too. This is great, eh? anne

Welcome Anne! Yes it is. One of the best sites on the web for sure!

Thanks for stopping by my school of geese. I'm glad you liked the shot.
It was one of those lucky captures!

I looked through your gallery and you put up good shots. I noticed a LOT of your shots have excellent clarity, and I'm just curious what camera you use? I work retail as a part time job (best buy :P) and enjoy giving customers the best advice possible, and since it doesn't look like you go through much, if any, editing, I think your comments on your equipment would be helpfull. Again nice gallery, and have a nice day!

Hey Paul thanks for kind comment on Daisy!I have try to remove the red distraction but was impossible :( Anyway thanks for the comment :)

~Nad

Hi James. I'm using a Fuji FinePix E550. It has a great reputation for shooting fine detail images which is the main reason I got it; that and it's price range for what you get. The E550 is a 6.3 megapixel camera that uses a technology called "SuperCCD HR" which arranges the pixels diagonally and in a honeycomb shape. This gives it the ability to producing more detail than with a conventional CCD in similar 6.3 mp cameras. While this also produces a bigger file size, I use a 1gig card which gives me plenty of shots.

All of my pictures are shot at the highest resolution, 4048 x 3040 pixels. By the time I reduce to 1600 x 1200 and sharpen the image in Photoshop, I can get very nice detail. You are correct about the "editing" in that I do very little. The ony editing the image you are commenting on received was the "sharpen" filter in PS.

This camera can also shoot in RAW mode which will make a small difference by I normally don't use it as it's not needed for desktop images. There are a ton more features that are described nicely here: http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/E550/E55A.HTM

That's really it. Everything else is aperture, shutter speed, composition, etc.

Happy shooting!

~Paul

thanks for the kind words on 'energy'

thanks for stopping by "Zonked," and I may just take your advice and do a macro of her paws. :)
-chelsea

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your kind words on your recent visit to Sweetheart Rose.

Ruby

Hi Paul. Thanks for the comment about my latest photo 'Muddy Shore & Yellow Bouy'. It made me laugh. I too doubt that too many people will like the idea of having mud and rank on their desktops!! I hope I at least get good marks for effort?!!!

Hey thanks for takin the time to leave a comment on White Rose. and making it a higher resolution I just did, but its not cropped. You're right about the noise, I haven't gotten it down yet. I will soon hopefully. :)

Hey Paul ; thx for the comment on spotting # 2 ; glad you liked it.

Thanks for the comment about the tunnel. I was afraid it would seem too vibrant but I couldn't help it, I loved how the bright green looked! thanks again : )

Thanks for the comment and saying the lighting was excellent. I'm so glad you liked it! :D

Hello, thanks for commenting on MrEyes. He was such an amazing model I can't believe he let me get so close! I wouldve liked to have given him a big kiss to thank him. hah well maybe not but it was fun anyway.

Thanks for the comment on Touch the sky, glad you liked it.

Hello. Thanks for the great comment! I was surprised you said my camera has excellent dynamic range because my camera was sort of starting to disappoint me. But its brand new and I'm not an expert of knowing what exposure to use and everything yet so maybe thats why. I never change the exposure actually, so I have a lot to learn. Anyway Thanks again!