On Nov 9, 11:31 am, wrote:
On Nov 9, 9:21 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III"





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On Nov 9, 6:39 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
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Last weekend I spent the night on a houseboat and played around taking
some long exposure photos late at night and in the early morning. Since
the lake is getting smaller every day, I plan on taking more to record
the drought.

Feel free to comment you would like about my feeble attempt to take some
interesting photos.

http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/561366333LXiTFf

Very good job! You did a good job with light and color.

Thanks, I really didn't do much different, except play with the shutter
speed, aperture and ISO. On every shot, I took numerous shots playing
around with the settings. The green color from the docks lights had to
do with the lighting used by the marina. It did not look green to look
at it, but it came out of the camera with the green shade.

Somethings I did learn is I need to get a black cloth to cover the eye
piece during the long exposure and also need to use the auto timer so I
won't have to hit the shutter release button. Some nice photos were
blurred because I shook the camera on the tripod as I hit the button, or
it may have been the dock moving. I also want to buy a bulb so I can
take some exposure longer than 30 secs, especially for some sky photos
in the mountains.

I was an avid 35mm guy in my day, even took some classes at a
community college close by. It's interesting when you do just like you
did, take several shots using different settings and record what you
did with each. A bulb is nice, just because of what you stated, camera
shake. I'm looking for a point and shoot for my daughter, don't want
to spend too much, maybe a couple hundred, but also want to avoid
shutter lag, which, is kind of a misnomer, because it's usually
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Right before my kids trip we got her a Kodak Easyshare C513... it came
in pink. It takes SD cards and has little if any shutter lag. 5MP, 3X
zoom, All the standard features and pretty good software/tools. It
took 4 days of photos for her trip, the quality is awesome, the auto
functions did their job at many different events and exhibits, and
lighting conditions. Not so great at the opera, long at night like any
smaller digital, but for a purse camera, you cant go wrong at 90
bucks..