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I recently upgraded the Canon Power Shot camera from the AS620 to the SX40HS, which is now classified as a bridge camera - somewhere between a normal digital camera and an SLR. I'm still getting used to the focusing but here are the first few test photos
Lots more practice required before I get the quality I'm looking for
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I use the manual focus for the first time last night and edited a few photos in Helicon Focus to improve the depth of field
Plenty more practice to come
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Jon, with scenery like that you could get great pictures with a brownie, but the camera does a great job.
Your trees and wooded areas make the scenes so real the Kaydee couplers are the only give away. I noticed what looks to me like vulture sitting on a limb in one photo.
You might try playing with the contrast on the photos. I think most digital pictures lack contrast coming right off the camera and I think most digital pictures have the blue level a little too high (including scans). I use photoshop elements 5.0 and cut the blue level back about 10% but on some It might be as much as 25%.
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So far so good Jon!
BTW, I really love your Chessie engine, it doesn't looks toylike at all with that paint scheme.
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The camera does your layout justice. Great looking shots.
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The camera is definitely good...and the scenery you're shooting is fantastic. If I could build a camera like MacGyver from sticks, gum, and a coke bottle...your layout would still give great looking shots.
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Great looking shots with a very good sharpness in distance also.
Enjoy your new camera!
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Looks like you've already got the hang of that new camera, Jon. I especially like the very first photo: it's one of those "I've been at that place..." kind of shots.
I noticed the vignetting on the next three shots: is that a function of the camera or something which you've manipulated later? It reminds me a little of the unwanted effect which I used to get when I used a pinhole attachment with my old 35mm film camera.
As usual, great modelling and well-photographed, too.
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Wayne
The vignette feature is one of the new photo effect tools in the Picasa 3 photo-editing suite that comes free with Google. I was playing with the new tools when I got my camera
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Pushkin the cat helped me take a few more photos tonight using the old camera, as a reference point. Oddly enough I'm finding the 7.2mp Power Shot is easier to use with Helicon Focus than the new camera. The in-focus area of each individual shot in the stack is easier to spot
Yet another photo session cut short
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great pic !!!!!
greeting from the blade city Solingen / gruß aus der Klingenstadt Solingen
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Great photos Jon, the depth of field is seriously impressive!
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