IS this camera okay for me.

[Colin Southern]

Ta da

[honey]

water can be tricky, usually i think people go one of two ways, to freeze it or to blur it.

With alot of light, especially with a flash, you can 'freeze' the water, i.e catch it with a fast enough shutter that the moving water doesnt blur, like: http://lifeinmegapixels.com/locmini.php?location=MC25 (1/1000s, forced flash) or http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl...-8&sa=N&tab=wi

With less light, you can try and get a long exposure on the water so that it all blurs into a kind of mist like : http://lifeinmegapixels.com/location.php?location=wier (16s) or http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl...=f&oq=&start=0

Of course that doesnt mean to say you cant get a good picture by going in the middle, photography is an art as much as it is a science, and so is open to interpretation by whoever is behind the shutter.

Hi Will long time no see lol
Thanks for your advice and the links, wow stunning water pics, with my basic ps camera would i ever beable to take shots like that?
I am thinking i am going to be limited in what i can do , do you think
Love hunny x

[honey]

Ta da

Thanks Colin , love it !!! x

[Colin Southern]

Hi Honey,

Here's a couple of my shots to illustrate what Will is saying about shutterspeed ...

The first is with a very short shutterspeed (1/1000th of a second) ...



And the second, with a very slow shutter speed (effectively, 2 minutes) ...



If your going to do loooooong exposures though, you'll need to mount your camera on a tripod (here begins your journey into all the accessories!).

[wjh31]

I had another look through your manual, and unfortuantely it seems you cant manually set the shutter speed or aperture, jsut the iso, and maybe exposure compensation.

[Colin Southern]

I had another look through your manual, and unfortuantely it seems you cant manually set the shutter speed or aperture, jsut the iso, and maybe exposure compensation.

We might need to add some ND filters to the "wish list"!

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Hunny,

~ with my basic ps camera would I ever beable to take shots like that?
I am thinking I am going to be limited in what i can do, do you think
Love hunny x

I'm sure some things will be possible, it just may take a little trickery to achieve it.

The problem is that yours is a fully automatic camera, with no manual control per se, but as I recall from scan reading the review, there are quite a few over-rides possible. However, that still makes it quite difficult for anyone without that model to advise you 'remotely', as we cannot instantly see what achieves the desired effect and what doesn't. We'll be reliant on reading the review and/or instruction book, asking you to try something, you posting the result here and unless it was an obvious success, we'll then ask you to try something else. Not impossible by any means, (I'll do it for you sweety ) would you like me to make a start on reading up tonight?

As both Will and Colin have said and shown, to freeze things you need fast shutter speeds (ss); around 1/1000s (your max is 1/2000s, so that's OK, the camera can do it). To blur, you need slow ss, the slowest you can go is 16s (in night mode), so while that should manage a bit of blur on water falls (under the right conditions), it isn't going to look like Colin's unless you do more PP. There is a way to average say 10 shorter ss shots to get the equivalent of the longer exposure, but this will rely on using GIMP, possibly PS Elements (with Layers) can also do it (but I'm not sure). The problem then will be convincing the camera's automatics to use these settings, which without a filter attachment threead, is going to be tricky. Oh dear, this all sounds quite negative, but I'm sure you can get some results approaching what you are after.
How far 'into' Devon are you? The Somerset or the Cornwall end? PM reply if you like.

Certainly if we'd known you were going to get this 'hooked' on photography, we might have advised a model with manual controls also, but then I'm not sure you knew yourself this time last week Hindsight is never wrong!

I need to do some work now, catch up tonight.

Bye for now,

[wjh31]

Certainly if we'd known you were going to get this 'hooked' on photography, we might have advised a model with manual controls also, but then I'm not sure you knew yourself this time last week Hindsight is never wrong!

It may not be too late to take it back and go for the powershot that you liked the look of if it's back in stock...

[honey]

Gosh guys thanks for all the tips and advice, it is all starting to feel a bit complicated lol with tripods and things
I do love my little camera and am going to learn all i can from it to take the best possible pics

I am feeling a urge coming on for a slr lol when funds permit and i have learn,t more , think in hindsight i should have gone for something with more manuel settings and i could have learn,t to use it in time.

Got to walk the dogs now, be back later
love hunny xx

[honey]

Hi Honey,

Here's a couple of my shots to illustrate what Will is saying about shutterspeed ...

The first is with a very short shutterspeed (1/1000th of a second) ...



And the second, with a very slow shutter speed (effectively, 2 minutes) ...



If your going to do loooooong exposures though, you'll need to mount your camera on a tripod (here begins your journey into all the accessories!).

Hi Colin i was just looking at these pics and what a difference shutter speed makes tbh i much prefer the first pic, it looks so realistic, the second pic with the 2min shutter almost looks like the water is frozen, it does look good but i like the water -droplet effects it looks more like water should look if you know what i mean
Thanks for sharing that with me
Actually you would laugh if you saw me this morning taking my water pics lol, to get close to the mini waterfall i had to wade in the water a bit, got sopping wet trainers and socks,the worst bit was when i looked up and this bloke was watching me, thinking i was a crazy woman no doubt x

[honey]

Just had a thought if my camera shutter speed is 1/2000s and the first water pic is 1/1000s does that mean i can never capture as good a pic as that one x

[honey]

Hi Dave , sorry don,t know how to quote just bits from a post, but i live in Exeter which is near a beach called Exmouth you might of heard of thats the nearest landmark i can think of nearby, i don,t know what pm is on here sorry i,m a real tech virgin lol
love hunny xx

[wjh31]

pm=private message, its a universal term in forums, meaning to send a message to a forum member rather than talking openly in the forum. To quote just a part of the message, click the "quote" button in the bottom right corner of a message, this will open up a reply with the entire message quoted, to quote just a bit, just delete from the message the bit you qont want in the quote, making sure to leave the \[quote\] and \[/quote\] bit

[carregwen]

...sorry don,t know how to quote just bits from a post...

You just hit the quote button and it puts the copied text into your reply surrounding it with QUOTE tags. You can remove any bits of the quote you don't wish to repeat, but it's normally a convention that you put '...' to indicate omitted text, as I have done above with your comment.

rob

[honey]

I need to do some work now, catch up tonight.

Bye for now,

just testing the quote thing out xx

Have you finished your work yet dave, i,m waiting for youxx

Thanks will and rob x

[honey]

Opps don,t think i done it right as quote not all neat in a box
love hunny x

[honey]

Lol Dave you know how to keep a gal waiting
I am so tired , going to have go to bed
nitey nite, sleep tight, don,t let the bed bugs bite

lots love hunny xx

[Dave Humphries]

~ Have you finished your work yet dave, i,m waiting for youxx ~

Hi Hun, I'm home

[honey]

Oh just seen my quote is all in a box, did someone do that for me or does it take time to show up x

[Dave Humphries]

Oh just seen my quote is all in a box, did someone do that for me or does it take time to show up x

Who'd ya think Hunny?