Beach at dusk

[toliv]

This is a great forum! I feel like I have learned so much just by looking at all of your replies. Thanks again for taking the time to post them. I really don't know that much about cameras or picture taking. I do know that I took about 60 shots my first day out with the s500. Seems like a great little cam. It did seem to get a bit lost in my hands. I have always been into picture taking. I know that this is not the place to post what cam to get questions, but does anyone think that I would be better off with a digital slr? Maybe the canon eos digital rebel or the nikon d70? I know that they are much larger in size, but all of those feaures and lense changing possibilites seem awesome and something that I think I could grow with. 3 days left on the s500 return policy... as usual all replies are more then welcome,

toliv

(ITS MORE OF A KIND OF CAM THEN WHICH QUESTION):?

[Tom Overton]

Hello;

Nice shot.

One thing that is hard to avoid is people walking into or out of the frame. Sometimes it's not a problem, other times it's distracting from the composition. (I took a shot recently in Windsor's "Sculpture Gardens", of a mother elephant andtwo baby elephants. Just as I took the shot, someone appeared on the walking path behind the elephant. It looked like the elephant was givingbirth to a full-grown human!)

Anyway, maybe a bit of a crop might be in order.

Oh, yeah... on your other question:

toliv wrote:

Thanks! I'll post 640x480 next time.Whats a good book to read?

War and Peace :-)

Tom, on Point Pelee, Canada