African Violets and Gesneriads: Gessie Photography Tips, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
I currently have a Canon PowerShot A630 digital camera. I can't take decent pictures for the life of me ... I am so technically challenged. My camera has two user guides, one Basic and one Advanced ... I've read through the basic manual and fiddle with settings and still can't figure it out. The Macro button on the back of my camera doesn't stay on ... you have to hold it down while you hold down the button to click the photo. I can take a hundred pictures and maybe, just maybe get one decent in focus picture! Arrrgh! Some people think I exaggerate but I'm serious. I took 54 photo's yesterday and not one was very good. Someone on another forum did tell me to gently hold down the shutter button until I hear the beep which tells me it's in focus. I do that but sometimes the photo still isn't good.

I know I'm past due for an eye exam, you think that might be the problem? LOL. My husband had almost talked me into buying a new camera, with a more powerful zoom or something, but I don't want to spend $300 or more for another camera, and then have this current one in a closet along with the Canon EOS RebelX S, (film type that's been in it's case, sitting on the closet shelf for years!)

I just went out and took about 30 pictures, playing with macro setting. I got one halfway decent picture. I used the macro and then cropped it. Not a Gessie ... but it turned out pretty good.