Camera Fun-Color options and Shutter Speed

This week we are talking about Color options and Shutter Speed. Below are some of my samples that I took today. Our camera has 5 color settings: High, Natural, Low, Black and White and Sepia. The first picture is high color. I should of zoomed in further, their faces are too bright. But I've noticed when I set the camera to high color a lot comes out too bright. I'm going to have to figure out when I would need that.

This one below is natural color. I'm not seeing much of a difference, maybe a bit darker.

This one below is of low color, you can see the difference in their shirts. Andrew is getting really tired of posing for this. LOL! He is trying to tip his sister out of the wheelbarrow!

This picture below is black and white. I love this picture. It is such a sweet picture of Hannah and Andrew. As you can tell from the pictures I post here, our 14 yo hates to have pictures taken with her sister and brother.

This one is sepia. I love this color. We had a few pictures from our wedding in this color. It fit because we were married in a historical village museum.

Now for shutter speed. I have never played around with this feature. That is SO 35mm days. LOL! Anyway, I thought it would be fun to learn about it. So this is what the manual says about it: "Shutter priority mode is primarily used to prevent blur when your subject is
moving. To prevent camera shake, use a tripod for slow shutter speeds."

When I took a photography class in our homeschool group we learned about tripods. It is still something I would like to get. There is one called a monkey (or something like that) you can wind the "fingers" around anything to hold your camera. Ok I was way off...LOL...it is called a gorillapod tripod. Well not way off, I was still in the same species.

It sells on amazon.com for about $20, you will see it can wrap onto just about anything. It is very sturdy also. Ok enough of the commercial break!

Our camera has a huge range for shutter speeds. It goes from 1/1000 to 8.0 (which is a very slow speed! I thought the battery in my camera died when I took a picture, I turned it around like what is wrong with this camera...I got a picture of my face...LOL!! Which wasn't pretty so I deleted it)

See it is pretty dark, but clear. This one is 1/1000 (above picture)

This one is taken with the shutter speed of 1/4. Pretty blurry. I liked the range of the different speeds. So until next week, go out and have fun with your cameras.

Camera Fun

Sandra over at Diary of a SAHM is learning about all of the features of her new camera. I thought it would be fun to do it along with her.

This is our camera we purchased a little over a year ago. I really love this camera. The more I learn about it and its features the better pictures we have. Also, since I love to scrapbook it saves me time when the pictures do not need to be cut.

Today we are talking and using the ISO feature on your camera. The camera we have is a Kodak ZD710 Easyshare. It took me some time to find how to change this setting on the camera. On our camera there is a setting on the mode dial in the back called PASM, it stands for Program, Aperture, Shutter Priority, Manual. Today we are just going to consentrate just on the ISO setting.

Under the manual feature you have much more control over how your pictures will look. Don't be afraid to play around, almost every camera has a reset button on it. You can always go back to the manufacturer settings if you want. But i'm sure that once you see how better your pictures will be you will not want to. But make sure you write down, if you are like me and forget how you got there, the steps.

Turn the Mode dial to PASM.
Press to choose P, A, S, or M.
Press to move between settings, open a setting, or change a setting.
Take a picture with different ISO settings.



ISO speed - control sensitivity to light. If you can't use a flash, increase the ISO. 3200 available only at 1.2, 2.1, and 2.2 MP. Higher ISO can produce unwanted "noise."



To do this I decided to "shoot" our cat. Don't worry no cats were injured in this shoot!! LOL! This picture is taken with the ISO set to 1600, depending on the setting with our camera the ISO will go up to 3200 depending on the megapixils chosen. Notice how bright it is, it is really hard to see the cat's face and it is very grainy.


This picture is taken with the ISO set at 100 see how much better it is. You can see his face, very clear.

Sometimes when you are taking pictures in different situations you will need a higher ISO. For example when you are in church, or in a museum where you can not use a flash you will need to increase your ISO. Play around with your own camera. Get to know all that it has to offer you. You will be glad you did.

Next week we are going to talk about shutter speeds. So grab your camera and start shooting!!