Any photographers out there?

[tripperfunster]

Today I made a lightbox via instructions on the interwebs. We've had some adorable baby chicks and ducks lately, and I wanted to photograph them.

The problem is, my camera is WAY beyond my skill set of point and click. I generally keep it on the 'auto' setting, and shut the flash off, but the light box proved to be tricky and I tried a million settings and wasn't really happy with any of them. (and didn't understand any of them either.)

I have the options of (I assume) shutter speed, from 80 up to 1600. I also have the option of C1, C2, M, AV, TV, P (the afore mentioned) auto, scn and movie.

The camera seemed to have trouble focusing, so I moved it physically back and then zoomed in. Any hints or tips would be welcome. Any hints on getting a chick to sit the fuck still and look at the camera would also be appreciated. ;)




These were tweaked quite a bit in ps, to get rid of the overtly yellow colour and give them more contrast.

Comments

[pomma-penses.livejournal.com]

Ove of those camera settings will be "control over shutter speed, auto everything else" and another will be "control over aperature, auto everything else." I tend to use the latter, and make sure I don't have a shutter speed under 60 as that causes shake/blur. A low aperature is good in lower lighting situations and can give a pleasingly blurred background with an in-focus subject.

Light balance should be able to be controlled in camera but just as easy to do in post-processing as you have done.

Sorry totally babbling here!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

No prob, thanks!

I probably should have sat down with the camera first, but I AM 12 YEARS OLD AND VERY IMPATIENT! *sigh*

I should probably find (or googlefu) the manual and find out what these things mean.