First pictures from Fuji S5500

[jon1800]

Only 4MP and a sample of my first attempt at "photography".

Click on the link, select slide show.

[url]http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/1925349[/url]


Comments please:(

[_dobbo_]

jon1800 said:

Only 4MP and a sample of my first attempt at "photography". Click on the link, select slide show. [url]www.photobox.co.uk/album/1925349[/url] Comments please

Some great ones there, the one of the boy (i assume yours) on the beach is a cracker.

[simpo two]

Very promising. This is my pick:



- but beef up the contrast.

NB There is more to life than megapixels

[GravelBen]

Hey some nice shots there, I've got one of them S5500 things too, tis a rather nice camera (at least as far as a rank amateur like myself can use it). Taken some (IMHO) halfway decent shots too, might get round to posting a few up here one day, probably once I get a decent pc and broadband.

[jon1800]

Cheers Guys.

The quote "beef up the contrast", well im let to lean about exposure, contrast ISO etc
Any tips would be appreciated.

The black and white photo of my son on the beach is my favorite, Photo box doesnt do it any justice.

Will post some more tonight.

[simpo two]

jon1800 said:

The quote "beef up the contrast", well im let to lean about exposure, contrast ISO etc Any tips would be appreciated.

Tip: You do it in PhotoShop or similar There are also (at least) 3 ways to convert a colour image to BW, but if I told you everything, you wouldn't have the fun of discovering them!! As a general rule each BW photo should have both perfect black and perfect white, but given the nature of 100% white to look like burn-out, I relax this rule sometimes.

[dinkel]

Autolevels will do 95% of the trick . . . At rgb and BW only. Nice pics there. Clean and well organized.

[GravelBen]

you can also adjust contrast/saturation/brightness/hue, convert to sepia or B&W, and a few other things quickly and easily in the software that comes with the camera (finepixviewer i think its called). and resizing etc as well.

[dinkel]

Autolevels and a bit unsharpen but via my picturesite . . . just look at the gratscales . . .

[jon1800]

Cheers guys,

Ive not messed around with the pics on FinePixViewer, the B&W photos were done with the camera, not software.
Is this the norm now, using software and not the camera/
If so, doesnt this take away the fun of photography?

[dinkel]

Well not for me is doesn't. I only adjust just a little bit: I'm spending too much time at the screen anyway. For large prints I take some more time but all my posts will be the uncut stuff: just some autolevels to get OK contrast . . .

Checked out the S5600 today. I think I'll buy one this month.

When Simpo sents me his spare pola I'll post some pics when ready.

Cheers guys I'm goin to quite here on the continent . . .

[jon1800]

More pics uploaded..... www.photobox.co.uk/album/1925340

[rude girl]

jon1800 said:

Is this the norm now, using software and not the camera/ If so, doesnt this take away the fun of photography?

Not for me. I see the process of making my photographs as very distinct stages, each with their own challenges and pleasures.

When I'm out with the camera, I might spot something and 'see' my finished photograph. Which is a great challenge to the eye and technically too. But sometimes, what I'm doing is gathering raw data to play with later.

As I've become more comfortable with my camera, I'm much more likely to bring my images home and do some heavy cropping, or explore what they'd look like in black and white etc. The interesting thing is that the process of playing with them in photoshop teaches me a lot about what I want to shoot when I next go out.

That all sounded a bit pretentious, didn't it!!! lol

[simpo two]

jon1800 said:

the B&W photos were done with the camera, not software. Is this the norm now, using software and not the camera/ If so, doesnt this take away the fun of photography?

No reason why you can't shoot in BW - but (a) PS will do it better and with more options than your camera software, and (b) you're a bit buggered if you later want to see it in colour

So it's always best, IMHO, to start with the max information possible - ie colour - and discard it later if you want to. Better to have it and discard it, than not have it and then wish you did.