I'd like to get me a DSLR but the expense is too much just to play with pictures. So I am making do with my point and shoot Canon A610. It's a nice little camera with some manual settings like Manual mode, Program, Aperture Priority, etc. I share it with the wife so I don't get much time with it.
When I do get to play with it I try to do some fun things. This week I went to Kyoto and tried to look for some ordinary things to photograph as well as tried my hand at outdoor portraits without the portrait Auto mode.
In this picture I was trying to get a handle on how I could control the Auto Focus without having to set the focus to manual.
After some attempts at making the background fuzzy for some depth of field effects, I figured out that things will be come the focus if they take up a certain percentage of the screen or you can repeatedly hold down the shutter button to lock the focus until you get the reticule on the object you want.
In this picture I used a busy composition to see if I could focus the viewers eyes in a game of which of these things doesn't belong.
If you didn't guess it, the price tag was my focus. It took a while to get the framing right on this one. I couldn't touch the merchandise or the else the scene would have been staged, though no-one could verify either way.
Try to find the odd man out in this picture of some bottles in a bin. This one was a little easier to get right.
I find that the macro mode on the A610 isn't as good as my Nikon S1 point and shoot, even in bright daylight. The picture always comes out a little hazy so in this picture of something that looks like a berry or dried gum I tried to get things sharper.
I think the sharp points was the first thing that attracted my eye and the ball on top decided it for me.
When I do get to play with it I try to do some fun things. This week I went to Kyoto and tried to look for some ordinary things to photograph as well as tried my hand at outdoor portraits without the portrait Auto mode.
In this picture I was trying to get a handle on how I could control the Auto Focus without having to set the focus to manual.
After some attempts at making the background fuzzy for some depth of field effects, I figured out that things will be come the focus if they take up a certain percentage of the screen or you can repeatedly hold down the shutter button to lock the focus until you get the reticule on the object you want.
In this picture I used a busy composition to see if I could focus the viewers eyes in a game of which of these things doesn't belong.
If you didn't guess it, the price tag was my focus. It took a while to get the framing right on this one. I couldn't touch the merchandise or the else the scene would have been staged, though no-one could verify either way.
Try to find the odd man out in this picture of some bottles in a bin. This one was a little easier to get right.
I find that the macro mode on the A610 isn't as good as my Nikon S1 point and shoot, even in bright daylight. The picture always comes out a little hazy so in this picture of something that looks like a berry or dried gum I tried to get things sharper.
I think the sharp points was the first thing that attracted my eye and the ball on top decided it for me.
Later on in the day we were walking through an old district in Kyoto called Gion and I noticed some umbrellas and liked the lines so I took a picture. These are traditional style umbrella/sun shades Geisha and Maiko use.
Also found in Gion are tea houses where the Geisha and Maiko work. Each tea house welcomes it's patrons with a red lantern. I was trying some depth tricks with the camera and got a nice pic of a lantern.
The last picture was taken as we were walking along a side road. I was looking at the way the city had decorated the district to make it appear old fashioned to match the theme of the Geisha's heyday. One of the best accoutrements was this post box. You can just imagine what it was like back then, just wipe out the English part in your mind.
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