As I indicated in an earlier post, I’m kind of “tipped out”. The well of knowledge just isn’t that deep for me to continue indefinitely with photo tips!
However, I did take a picture this week I really liked, and I thought it would be a good time to revisit a couple of points, and I’m providing links to previous posts where I told you everything I know (and probably more) about these features.
For this picture, I used …
- Prefocusing by pressing the shutter button half-way down
- When I was prefocusing, I made sure I was focusing EXACTLY on one of the little crab apples
- I was zoomed out to 12x optical zoom (which is the maximum on my Panasonic Lumix before it switches to digital zoom)
I really like these pictures where only the subject is in focus and the rest of the background kind of goes away. It reminds me of a watercolor.
I don’t get as pronounced an efffect with my little Canon, and I think it’s related to the amount you’ve zoomed in. It may have to do with the size of the lens, as well, because this camera has a bigger lens on it. This would be a good place for my disclaimer: I’m not an expert. I just like messing around with camera stuff.
–Sue
