Jan 07 2009
Learning to Walk Before Tripping!
Why is it, that I have to learn everything the hard way? Is information overload contagious? Is there a cure for personal ignorance besides Dr. Kevorkian? Inquiring challenged intellects want to know.
Now why I have to choose a subject that requires a masters degree in photography to write an article on, (not the writing, but the accompanying pictures needed) escapes me, yet that is exactly how I do things, requiring massive amounts of research to complete one little project.
So far, for one little article I had to buy a digital camera, two desk lamps, and a Partridge in a pear tree…. sorry about that, perhaps the holiday feelings aren’t quite over with yet.
The camera takes great pictures, dogs, cats, windows and trailers all come out clearly, but try and zoom in on a stupid plastic model car just once…. forty pictures later and I still haven’t figured it out. The pics aren’t bad mind you, but the perfectionist in me won’t allow a picture that I know will never be allowed into print to slip past.
The auto focus hates me and fogs up one end of a subject that is only eight inches long, a shadow, unavailable to the naked eye shows brilliantly in an otherwise perfect picture, or a close up reveals a defect that only a viewer armed with an electron microscope could find.
Does a digital camera come with an unmarked setting known as taunting the incompetent user? All this time I thought machines taking over the world was simply a good sci-fi movie plot….
Thomas H. Forthe
Have you tried taking the pics outside? Sometimes natural light works best. Or put the car directly under some light. I’ve even had someone hold a light above and object to get a goood pic.
Hope you get one you like soon!
Actually that is what I wound up doing this time and finally got decent results.
but, I cannot always depend on the sun to shine, so I will figure out an indoor solution as well.