Well, I have not been very good about adding images here. I have a few lined up. I started two weeks ago, to use my little point and shoot in full manual mode. I love the results. Much better than the program mode. I now don’t have to do any post processing to my images at all. I know that if i’m in a hurry, I’ll have to switch to program mode, but for all the rest, manual is the way to go. I’m going to leave it on auto focus though, as the lcd screen, while sharp is not quite sharp enough to manually focus the lens. (Cool that the thing will allow manual focus innit?).
The first image, while futzing around and not quite getting the controls right was taken when C. and I went to Fran’s near the Eaton Centre. It is similar to the images of J. and N. But this time I think that the image is much richer … I used manual settings.
The next couple of images were taken after a quick visit to the Eaton Centre. Some workers were installing a very very big billboard on the side of the new building at Yonge and Dundas. I fiddled around with the manual settings to get the best exposure. Those tiny figures are actually full sized construction workers. Yikes.
Then I zoomed out and took a photograph of the billboard in context:
A week later I was playing around photographing my boy-cat Laszlo. Here he is looking malevolently relaxed:
Later that night a friend needed to talk with me. On my way over to her place, I stopped in the park and took this photograph of a tree by the light of a nearby lamp post. In the background is a brightly lit (relatively brightly lit I mean) softball diamond.
A little ways after that I used a slightly tilted park bench as a tripod and photographed the toronto skyline (all askew) with the park in the foreground. This image, the one before it, and the one after it were shot using the camera on program mode.
This last image for this post was shot at about 2:30 in the morning on my way home. I had drunk a couple of big glasses of wine and did not lean against anything for what was a 4 second exposure of a lit pathway through some trees.
