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I found this video to be the most helpful for me. He speaks clearly with no weird background noises. Thank you, whoever you are.
Naturally, you’ll have your Photoshop open and an appropriate picture to work on. This is my favourite way of learning. The video can be stopped and started and rewound as often as needed until you have yours done. So, go have some fun.
I’ve tested it for a week now. I think I like it. The main thing I have to remember is to up the white balance. Without the proper lighting, you tend to get noise. Seems every camera is a little different and I had to realize this point and shoot is not like my SLR. Oh well.
Yesterday evening I went in the garden to shoot flowers. The ones I took in sunlight were as sharp as a tack. The ones I took in shade had noise. I should have moved the white balance, not just the cloud setting. Keep practicing, shutterbug. All the Photoshop in the world won’t completely repair a bad picture.
After fawning the way I did over the previous PowerShot, I wasn’t happy with it after all. I took it to a bicycle race shoot. It just didn’t perform as I’d hoped. Most of the shots were blurry. No wonder. It did not have image stabilization. Why was I under the impression that all point and shoots had IS? Probably because in the old days, when I was using my 35mm film point and shoot, I’d never heard of image stabilization and my pictures turned out real nice every time. Times change and not always for the better.
I’m practicing with this camera as I am going to Europe and want to take a picture of everything. This camera also has a viewfinder which is nice for people like me who’d been accustomed to using a viewfinder rather than live-view.
I’ll take it out again tonight for a bike shoot and we’ll see how it performs. I’ll keep you posted.
Bike shoots are not easy because what I really want is that perfect blur. That is, the cyclist is sharp but the background is blurry. As you can see from my previous post, I got the ideal blur with that one cyclist. Let’s hope I get a lot more tonight.
I will report tomorrow.
















































































































