Recently I bought a new camera. After much research (and interrogating about 5 photo-savvy friends), I decided on the Canon G12, a tidy little 4/3rds camera. From what I can tell, it does a lot of what a DSLR would do, but it is compact and you don't have to buy expensive lenses. Exactly what I wanted: a one-shot purchase that would help me take nice (but not necessarily professional-looking) photos. I've enjoyed playing around with the apertures and ISOs, etc, but there's not a lot you can do at 9pm in your living room. Pretty much all photos look like crap in that setting.
Enter the most beautiful place in St. Louis: The Missouri Botanical Gardens.
On a beautiful Saturday morning I went with my friend Sarah, who just so happens to be a professional photographer :) Lucky me. Here are some photos I snapped, and some lessons I learned.
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| Color gradient in shallow pool. Don't remember my settings on this one. |
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| China dragon! |
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| Twirling iron wind-catcher. I was using a high aperature (low numbers? Is that right?) but there was nothing interesting behind the twirly gig to give it the "depth of field" I was wanting. |
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| Pretty pom pom flowers. 2.8 aperture + Auto ISO & T. |
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| "Macro" setting, high aperture. |
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| Man, this water fall was a doosey to shoot. I wanted to focus on something still to get that fuzzy motion effect with the water. But fast water + really bright light = HARD. |
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| I finally used the exposure compensation (-2) to get a better shot. |
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