Member Mark Gowin

Hi Geoffrey,

I am glad you brought up this topic. I have been making photographs with my S2 and the intention of turning the best ones into large prints in the future. The discussion about minimum hand-held shutter speed is important to me because I haven't yet had the opportunity to evaluate the effect of shutter speed on large prints. I…[Read more]

I'm gsld you asked this question. I too don't Know much about flash photography, especially on the S2. I generally don't like the look of most photos taken with a flash. However, I am sure folks that know what they are doing can make more natural looking photos while using a flash.

Josh and David, thank you for showing me what is possible. I am embarrassed to admit it but truth be told I have purchased three previous Photoshop versions (CS2, CS3, and CS4) with every intention of learning how to use it each time I purchased it. It's funny that it took me three well intentioned tries before I figured out not to buy CS5.

I…[Read more]

The firefly photos show some noise in the form of small white dots here and there.

Let's try this one.

I can't upload the main scene at this time due to file size. I will try again later. Sorry for the delay.

More firefly images

One more to go – the dusk time view of the scene.

Me too! You had me going there for a moment.

Photo taken with 35mm and polarizer

I notice the horizon looks to be titled slightly. This must be an optical dillusion (spelling intentional) because I used a level. Tilted horizons are a pet peeve of mine.

These days tilted horizons are all the rage in senior and wedding photography. It drives me nuts although I have tried it a time or two myself.

How well does this work? A little bit of tilt could solve some of the foreground to main subject depth of field problems I have been having. Granted I wouldn't want to tote that rig around all the time.