Image Enhancements When Shooting

Hi Dale!
Especially for filming (shooting with an exposure time of 1/50th of a second) we often have to use polarising filters to darken the image if we want to shoot with a large aperture. Especially if we shoot outside. Other than that we don’t use any lens filters.

For photos we shoot a lot in .raw so there is so much you can still do/fix in Lightroom or Photoshop even if you didn’t get everything right in-camera.

Stay groovy,
Lisa

Seeing some of the high quality and artistic shots you do Lisa, I am thinking I should move up from my high zoom fixed lense point and shoot cameras to the digital SLRs with nicer lenses and greater versatility.  When I got my Canon S2IS with imaged stablized 12X optical zoom back in 2005, that felt like great freedom to be able to pull in shots of birds perched on trees and zoom into distant objects and frame them just the way I like.  With semi auto aperture and shutter priority modes, and long shutter speeds it gave me the freedom for some creative control.  It also had a decent burst mode to capture action shots of my dog jumping around the yard too.   And loved the high def video that I could zoom in and out with and capture still shots while doing video which was awesome.   As nice as all that was, I could see the fixed lense just did not give the brilliant photography of professional photographers.  It lacked something.   The camera died on me last Christmas, and my smart phone camera despite it’s high resolution is just not cutting it.  I have to have a proper view finder to frame shots properly.  Most of the new high zoom fixed lense cameras lack a view finder and they expect you to take pictures with the little screen on the back like a phone, and I hate it.  I think I will have to go digital SLR and get some new lenses now, and it will have to have a decent video mode too.

I upgraded many years back…to a Purple Sony CyberShot digital camera…though, I’m  not nowhere near as advanced or have knowledge like Lisa, Jung and others on here about photography stuff but if I were to someday update my digital camera, but  cost effective,  as I cannot ever afford the top notch stuff, but don’t  wish to go full cheapo either, I’d be aiming for middle of the road here, costwise affordable yet not cheap in the product, what would be your recommendations… ( I could only afford under $200)…I prefer Android phone over iPhone….

Jacki.  Canon has always served me well.  My Canon cameras have lasted me decades, and Ive seen many compzct point and shoots in your price range.  Sony are great too for performance and leading edge technology.  Now a purple one would be really cool in a Canon or Sony.

Thanks Jung, I’ll keep in mind, but I still enjoy using my Purple Sony CyberShot, at the time, when I spotted the Purple Sony (forgot now where I bought it from ), it was screaming…” Please  Jacki, take me home,  you know you want to”  …how could I not refuse an offer of such Purpleness, and I think  it was on sale too….??