[meteorite-list] colorado meteorite picture HOW TO.

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Jan 20 19:55:40 2005
Message-ID: <15k0v0pr98vi6d6bqv80ui139mib151at0_at_4ax.com>

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:41:44 -0700, David Freeman <dfreeman_at_fascination.com> wrote:

>A fine overcast, or sunlight are best, indoor lighting lacks in my book.
> Light is everything in photography, especially digital.
>Gerald is correct, it's a digital camera take about 500 pictures and
>delete all but the best five. Start over and do it again. After about
>2,000 pictures (I am serious here) your eye for what the camera sees and
>what you would like to project to the viewer of the picture, will
>improve drastically.

I'd also like to add to all the above tips-- master manual settings for shutter speed, aperture, and
metering. Don't let the camera make what may be a wrong guess for what settings to use. Having a
digital camera with everything from auto-everything to manual-everything has taught me everything I
know about photography-- and made me realize how crappy my photos from point-and-shoot (film AND
digital) days really were. Like others said, take lots and lots and lots of photos with lots and
lots and lots of manual settings. It won't take long to get the swing of what works best in each
situation (and the camera stores all of this information for the shot within the photo file-- any
reasonable modern photo editing software can display this info for you).

I don't claim on any level to be a professional photographer, but here's a link to a gallery of some
of my favorite photos I have taken. And if I recall correctly, almost none of them resulted from
trusting the automatic settings on the camera.

http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=cynapse
Received on Thu 20 Jan 2005 07:57:27 PM PST