True Confession: I hate my FZ30

[Capella]

Again, my deepest thanks. You all have given so much of yourselves to try and help me. I really appreciated the photo examples and all your comments, suggestions and support. So here goes! http://community.webshots.com/album/548275831CoIdPZ

Dumb subject matter, doesn't matter it was just a test. The first five were shot inside with the flash. The only real problem was that the maroon wallpaper turned out pink. I was well enough pleased with them and the ones outside, but if any of you want to put a critical eye on them, it will be very much appreciated. I can take the hit, so be real up front with what you think (except for subject and composition - I didn't even really try)

OK, I am feeling *much* better.



Debbie

[pagerboy]

I relly don't see any problems with the pictures. The one that you said the focus jumped to the candle, what were you focusing on?



As for color I usually use color cast because getting the flash to color a scene right is just too much trouble when in a hurry.

[Capella]

pagerboy wrote:
The one that you said the focus jumped to the candle, what were you focusing on?

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The candle - LOL. What is "color cast??" Just curious. Thanks so much for taking the time to look.

Debbie

[kenmck15]

hey debbie, im not quite sure what ou are not liking about the photos so i assumed tht the colours out of place were annoying you. personally i thnk you may have the saturation set to hi on the cam. personaly i always leave mine at normal. i prefer the cam not to adjust anything when i take a shot.

In the folowing i just didi an auto levels with photoshop and reduced the saturation to -15 to try counteract the hi saturation settting you have selectec on your cam. do the colors look more tru now. I dont no bcse i havent seen the actual subjects?

[kenmck15]

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[kenmck15]

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i couldnt see anything wrong with this one, but anyways

[kenmck15]

persoally i dont think you should ever have hi saturation when taking images of ppl. you will get red skins no matter. i had to do further mods to try reduce this red tinge over the skin. is it more tru now. like is the couch ment to be tht shade?

[kenmck15]

would you mind saying what you dont like about the images,. and for some reason i cant access your exif information either

[pagerboy]

The Color Cast command changes the overall mixture of colors in an image for generalized color correction.

When a picture is taken of snow it sometimes looks blue, use color cast to show what should be black, gray or white which will correct the rest of the photo.

[kenmck15]

this image here will be a metering issue. you cant use average metering when there is a dark foreground and bright background. centre weighted would have been ideal here. aim your cetnre weight exposure around whree i have marked. well this is where i would aim anyways

you should get an end result like ht eafter image.