[ex1z7]

NefCanuck,Mar 15 2007, 03:45 PM Wrote:ex1z7,

Thanks, yeah I'll just have to invest the time in reading the manual throughly and playing around with the camera.  I have a 1GB card so I can take something like 300 shots at 6MP anyways (That's why batteries are a must, they'll croak before the card does)

As to PS, don't have it, can't afford it and not looking to have to use asbestos gloves to handle my PC :ph34r: 

I do have GIMP installed so I can play with that (Though it's not as polished or as user friendly as PS likely is)

NefCanuck
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I have a 256 card and at 4.1mp I rock about 200 pictures, which I figure is more then enough.. When I get as many pictures as I think I'm happy with, I swap batteries with some alkalines that I have hanging around that die quick, and cycle through the pictures and delete the ones that obviously didn't turn out.. Then I swap back in the NiMh batteries and get back to shooting..

A trick to conserve batteries is.. Don't look at the pictures once you've taken them.. Like don't snap a picture and then get out of your position and look at it, zoom it in, check the details.. Do that every 5 pictures or 10 if you're getting really trigger happy with it.

If you're designating a few hours (at least 2 start to finish) to taking some pics.. after the first 5 or 6, in varying angles, check your pictures then, and see if they turned out in terms of quality.. colour.. everything, and then adjust a few things and take a few more pics - check how they look .. another few .. till you find exactly what you're looking for.

And if you want, I'll process some pics for you, a quick filter (like changing contrast or brightness etc..) takes me about 15 seconds a picture.. After a shoot of about 150-200-250 pics, I'll end up with 100, and editing those 100 for colour etc takes about 30 minutes.. And then after that, I'll edit them down from 2300x to 1024 or 1400.. Just something more manageable.. And then from that, I might shrink them one more time, then add a border and call it finished.

Usually I just do what a client wants. I'll give a client 3 or 4 different resolutions, usually I'll do a select few in black and white, at varying resolutions, and from then on.. just finish listen to what they want.

But I wouldn't mind playing around with some photo's of yours if you want like 20-30 to look just that little extra special.. You usually always have to mess with a photo a little to get what you originally wanted out of it.