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Originally Posted by LSHatch
Awesome. Thanks for all the tips.
Picture 2: Don't have photoshop, and what is a fill flash?? The only light I had there was from the red X-mas light behind me.
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Fill flash is when you use a regular flash to illuminate (fill) the foreground subject. Usefull when there is either a back lit subject or a very dark background that you want to stay dark. The more I think about it, the less I like the idea as it would most likely ruin the red shade of the rocks and water.
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Picture 3: I was trying to pan with the dog. I had that picture in an automatic mode for "sports." So, I'm assuming that is what ruined it. How do I go about taking pictures like that in a lower lighting situation??
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Raise the ISO setting in the camera. The "sports" mode tries to open the lens and have a short shutter time. This would tend to freeze the action, which is what you want. In this case there probably wasn't enough light to have a short enough shutter at ISO 400. The higher ISO levels will boost the sensitivity/gain through the sensor (more noise).
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Definitely overexposed. You hit the nail on the head when you said in the last paragraph it was 30 seconds. hahaha. I had the camera just sitting on the deck in my backyard. How do I go about making the colors in the back more vivid also??
Also, how the heck do you know what my ISO settings are? Can you tell just by looking at the pictures?
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There is probably a setting for the color saturation in one of the many menus. However overexposure pushes everything toward white. The colors may be to your liking as they are set.
There is lots of info in the EXIF data in the pictures. ISO, Shutter time, f-stop, focal length, etc. Right click -> properties should bring up most of it. Your camera software should show it to you as well.
Keep shooting.