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Awfully cute. I wonder if mine will ever bloom....
If you change it to a fast ISO (bigger number), your exposure time will decrease, but so will the quality -- it will look "grainy."I can change "ISO" settings. Will that change exposure time?
does your camera have a flash? if so, can you turn it off or put tissue paper over it? other thing would be to try and eliminate any bright lights where you are taking a picture or borrow a circular polarizer or a neutral density light filter (makes picture darker but doesn't change color values) from someone and hold it over your lens when you take the picture
Actually, what is happening is that the camera is focusing on the darker areas around the flowers, which the meter thinks is a middle gray instead of a darker value. Since the flowers are so much lighter than the surrounding area, they are overexposed. To help with this, without using a flash, you might try focusing on your hand (at the plane of focus for the flowers) but then removing your hand before you snap the picture.In normal GH lighting I still usually force a flash since the close ups (macro setting) always come out blurry with this camera without very bright light. Otherwise I take it out in sunshine. For some reason the auto focus on this camera has problems with white. The best results for white is to do what Peter does, and use the sky as a backdrop. Then for some reason the camera is forced to focus on the white (or very small) flowers.
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To help with this, without using a flash, you might try focusing on your hand (at the plane of focus for the flowers) but then removing your hand before you snap the picture.
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Actually, what is happening is that the camera is focusing on the darker areas around the flowers, which the meter thinks is a middle gray instead of a darker value. Since the flowers are so much lighter than the surrounding area, they are overexposed. To help with this, without using a flash, you might try focusing on your hand (at the plane of focus for the flowers) but then removing your hand before you snap the picture.
The reason your camera works against the sky is because the sky is lighter than the plant -- again, the meter sees the sky value as a middle gray (darker than the sky value), so the flowers, being lighter, are more correctly exposed.
Regarding the blurryness, that is because of camera shake. It's almost impossible to hand-hold a camera taking close-ups without having some camera movement -- unless you use a tripod. If you don't have a tripod, maybe you can brace the camera against something solid, or set it on a chair or stool.
I'd be glad to take you under my photographic wing, Eric...For a small fee I can send you my book on photo techniques!
Got room under that wing for one more?I'd be glad to take you under my photographic wing, Eric...
Ahh, so it is the camera, we keep tellin' you to get a new one!In college, 70's , I used to be a good photographer w/ old Nikon!
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