Ok, so far I have basically played with my camera’s iAuto setting. On the dial are a number of other settings that I’ve attempted to use but suffice to say there haven’t been many photos worth keeping. I still have a long way to go. Yesterday’s trip hi-lighted how much more I need to learn about how to use my camera. I need to understand what the myriad of menus can do. So far it has been a case of press the menu button and then get lost. What applies to what, how it affects what I’m doing, oh, forget it, it’s all too hard.
Today I found a YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRYUEgp23iY that helped me play with the menus and discover some of the tools to take better or more interesting photos or how to use some special effects. 🙂
The first thing I played with were the SCN or scene settings. This is where you set the camera to best adjust itself for Landscape, Portrait, Fireworks etc. I found a setting to help with wobbly camera or moving objects. It was rather breezy outside at the time. Actually it was windy! So I tested this mode to get a shot of one of the capsicum flower buds.
Then I tried the ART settings and a function called BRACKETING. So I take a shot and then using bracketing it applies the selected ART settings to the photo. I had 11 ART settings chosen….. most were just awful, but I found one that was interesting. The first is the original shot not ART settings, the second has Dramatic Tone applied.
Finally, I found a rather exciting feature called PANORAMA. Hmmm, wonder how that works? The instructions were that it allowed a series to be ‘stitched’ together on the computer. How hard can that be? Well as I found out, it is directional. I didn’t save the failed image 🙂 Here is a pic that is the view from my front door. As you can see the storm is coming from the west, and the wind played a bit of havoc with the sun and cloud cover but as a first attempt I am rather proud.
Wow! I now understand the significance of your blog name! You could never get bored of that vista! Lucky shots toof, as are the national park ones
One reason we bought the house :). Best of all it changes depending on the crop the farmers plant.