OP
I know I sounded like I'm bashing Canon, but I'm not really, as I certainly have seen tons of great photos from experienced photographers using different models. I figured my bad experience was from using an old model. The camera's owner took some pretty lousy pictures too. So in fact when I read the first paragraph of this post...
I thought.. oh great... success on an old camera... there goes that theory... but this person is experienced, so perhaps it's just not good for beginners. then I read...
...and I just felt frustrated. Are the new ones that much better, or am I that lame? it didn't click with me at all. I can take a decent picture above water... I think? My confidence level plummeted... so I decided against a Canon. You unknowingly largely sold me against a Canon in a backwards sorta way?! haha. So, since my fiance took decent shots with little experience, I followed his footsteps and to feel safe bought a Sony. Make sense?
60feet - thanks for your comments. It was some time ago that I used that camera, so I don't recall all that I tried, but I do recall setting the white balance as suggested. I looked at the photos again <shudder> and they were all overly green/blue too. I realise that avoiding back scatter is a challenge without a strobe, but achievable. That's the thing about Photoshop. It can fix the colour quite nicely, but removing back scatter is another animal. I won't just shoot on auto. No harm in playing around with everything. I'll be here at home, so it's pretty much the same subjects day in and out. I have even more of a challenge ahead of me as here I'll have low light, and low viz. and will be taking primarily macro shots (not much big around here) ....with gloves on... hahahaha ....Ok then... wish me luck!
alcina:I'd have to hop on the Canon A series bandwagon. I haven't used the A40 but I have results from the ancient A20 that we've used for advertising and postcards
And my A70 and A75 were workhorses providing some lovely images.
I thought.. oh great... success on an old camera... there goes that theory... but this person is experienced, so perhaps it's just not good for beginners. then I read...
alcina:
...and I just felt frustrated. Are the new ones that much better, or am I that lame? it didn't click with me at all. I can take a decent picture above water... I think? My confidence level plummeted... so I decided against a Canon. You unknowingly largely sold me against a Canon in a backwards sorta way?! haha. So, since my fiance took decent shots with little experience, I followed his footsteps and to feel safe bought a Sony. Make sense?
60feet - thanks for your comments. It was some time ago that I used that camera, so I don't recall all that I tried, but I do recall setting the white balance as suggested. I looked at the photos again <shudder> and they were all overly green/blue too. I realise that avoiding back scatter is a challenge without a strobe, but achievable. That's the thing about Photoshop. It can fix the colour quite nicely, but removing back scatter is another animal. I won't just shoot on auto. No harm in playing around with everything. I'll be here at home, so it's pretty much the same subjects day in and out. I have even more of a challenge ahead of me as here I'll have low light, and low viz. and will be taking primarily macro shots (not much big around here) ....with gloves on... hahahaha ....Ok then... wish me luck!
