How to take a picture of a flower! I am technologically challenged to say the least. I couldn't figure out why my flowers always appeared out of focus. Well I guess that would be why there is a "flower" option on my camera!
I think I finally figured it out...
And here's the entire plant.
Stephanie
In my excitement of having taken a decent picture, I forgot to tell everyone that this is Ma's Easter Parade.
Bautiful ! Which plant is it ? My Aca's Marie :)) Allison
OH OK very nice ! So many plants look alike . lol Beautiful and great pictures too ! Allison
Very pretty plant Stephanie.
Patti
very beautiful. I have a similar plant, Ma's Debutant. It blooms all the time and has the same looking leaf.
Nanna
Sorry, Just noticed the green edge on the bloom. Beautiful
This message was edited Dec 7, 2005 10:51 AM
Lovely picture!
BTW, if that "flower option" on your camer is a little symbol that looks like a tulip.... that's the "macro" setting, which allows you to put the lens of the camera much closer to the subject. On the normal setting, the camera can't focus on anything closer than a foot or two away from it.... and when a point-&-shoot camera can't focus, there's generally some little light that flashes to tell you so. On the macro setting, with the little flower symbol showing, you should be able to get the camera within a few inches without that little light flashing at you.
Even on the macro setting, I have trouble with my point & shoot camera deciding what it thinks it should focus on.... which generally isn't the flower I'm trying to photograph, LOL! Since my camera has pretty good resolution, I've taken to shooting my AV pics at more of a distance and then cropping the photo for a closeup.... this seems to increase my chances of getting the part I want to looks like it's in focus.
We're all learning as we go, I think -- especially with these cool digital cameras!
Critterologist, Thanks for that very good explanation. It is a "tulip" on my camera. I've never noticed it before. I wish that I hadn't been so lazy and actually read my manual! I took a lot of pictures of my plants outdoors this past summer and they didn't turn out very well. Oh well. Now at least I know and my future pictures will be better.
Thanks everyone for all of your compliments on my plants!
Stephanie
I do the same thing, Jill. It is very east to see when one forgets to use macro! I crop them, too, as they are such huge pictures.
Kenton