Pool on Queen Mary II. More my usual sort of style: fairly minimalist with lots of geometric lines creating a slight sense of the abstract. The two pillars with the circle of lights on top is the main element, placed one third from the left with the lights about one third to a quarter down. the solitary anonymous figure between the pillars, and the wet footprints add a sense of mystery. The lines on the deck stops the eye from moving out of the picture, and guides it to the wake of the ship. This shot was not modified in any way.
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FOOTPRINTS Tutorial - Camera details
Footprints on a sand dune at Talacre beach in North Wales, U.K.
Most of the photos on this blog are taken with a Samsung Digimax V4 digital camera. It is now a few years old and has a resolution of 4 megapixels. It was was my first entry into digital photography, having used 35mm for some years. I chose it becuase of its low to mid range price and because of the features that it has. In the end I have only used some of its features, the most useful ones I have found to be are:
Night mode - for night shots
The +/- exposure control so that I can override the metering system when taking shots in difficult lighting conditions such bright sun on snow, or sand, or into the light shots.
S or shutter mode - if I want to freeze fast moving action. The ASM control gives me complete manual override over the automatic metering system which is sometimes useful.
The camera has automatic focussing and also close up or Macro mode, which I sometimes find useful for the ocasional close up shot.
The camera also has automatic flash - the flash works in poor light conditions, and again, it useful to be able to turn this off in certain situations.
The camera also has 3x optical zoom. Since I tend to do landscape photography, I often use the wide angle end of the zoom - I am a big fan of ultra wide angle. So much so that I still use my 35mm camera for some shots because I have 24mm and 18mm ultra wide angle lenses for that camera, which enables me to get some shots that I cannot get with the digital one. I rarely use the digital zoom, it just lowers the quality of theimage, though I may just use the lower end of the digital zoom very ocasionally.
Of course the great advantage of digital is the instant feedback of results and no film to load. So I can take lots of shots to make sure I get what I want, without worrying about film cost and wastage. Those shots that don't work can be instantly deleted.
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