In The Night Garden
More dabblings with my cleverer-than-me telephone.
In experimenting with this camera it quickly becomes obvious that the relatively wide field of view and low pixel count on a tiny sensor can present a few problems when shooting flower pics (or any other pics for that matter). There can be a lot of distracting and nearly in focus background. without using flash the pictures will be very grainy in all but the best light and the absence of stabilisation consigns threequarters of your pictures to the digital cutting room floor.
The answer? Well for me it was pictures by torchlight after sunset. :-)
I've got me one of those heavy duty multiple LED torches. This provides a strong but diffuse light source that I could hold just out of sight and point at the subject. Because it was bright I was able to take sharp pictures with the background naturally blacked out and the AWB handled the light source with very little shift in colour if at all.
The results are not going to have Gardeners World Editors shaking in their boots but I'm pleased enough to have set up an Instagram account for the first time in order to show them off.
Anyway - thank you for visiting and I hope that you enjoy the work.
Cluke
My 200 most interesting images
In The Night Garden
More dabblings with my cleverer-than-me telephone.
In experimenting with this camera it quickly becomes obvious that the relatively wide field of view and low pixel count on a tiny sensor can present a few problems when shooting flower pics (or any other pics for that matter). There can be a lot of distracting and nearly in focus background. without using flash the pictures will be very grainy in all but the best light and the absence of stabilisation consigns threequarters of your pictures to the digital cutting room floor.
The answer? Well for me it was pictures by torchlight after sunset. :-)
I've got me one of those heavy duty multiple LED torches. This provides a strong but diffuse light source that I could hold just out of sight and point at the subject. Because it was bright I was able to take sharp pictures with the background naturally blacked out and the AWB handled the light source with very little shift in colour if at all.
The results are not going to have Gardeners World Editors shaking in their boots but I'm pleased enough to have set up an Instagram account for the first time in order to show them off.
Anyway - thank you for visiting and I hope that you enjoy the work.
Cluke
My 200 most interesting images