Spectacular photos! This is just the sort of photo I have always wanted to take ever since I was a young child and imagined making big pictures of the tiny tiny flowers that no one notices. My current camera doesn't allow me to do it. I'm feeling inspired to to the digital route, by your example of what wonders it can do.
It's ironic that my camera has inspired you by "what wonders it can do." It is actually a cheap one that doesn't allow me to control focus, exposure or depth of field. There's so much it won't do that my old camera would. Trying to get it to take good closeups is almost impossible; it wants to focus on something in the background. By taking hundreds of pictures I have learned how to trick it into doing what I want under some circumstances. My photo of the monarch the other day was just a stunning piece of luck; the foreground in focus, the distance softly blurred. I could do so much more if I was able to control the lens.
For comparison, look at what kind of closeups Bill's digital camera takes. I love taking that kind of thing, and am wildly jealous.
The big advantage of digital is being able to take as many shots as you want without the cost of film. So you can snap away happily in hope some will turn out perfectly, and get lots of practice that way. Then you can go home, load them onto your computer, see them right away and have fun cropping or otherwise manipulating the images.
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Date: 2003-09-04 01:36 pm (UTC)I live for vague smuttishness!
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Date: 2003-09-04 04:48 pm (UTC)For comparison, look at what kind of closeups Bill's digital camera takes. I love taking that kind of thing, and am wildly jealous.
The big advantage of digital is being able to take as many shots as you want without the cost of film. So you can snap away happily in hope some will turn out perfectly, and get lots of practice that way. Then you can go home, load them onto your computer, see them right away and have fun cropping or otherwise manipulating the images.