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| Your subjects have red eye | It refers to what happens when the light strikes the retina and bounces back to your camera. This is a very common problem with point and shoot cameras |
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| You are getting shadows on your backgrounds and on the face of your subjects. | This is the result of the subject
being too close to the wall for background shadow.
Excessive outdoor shadows on the subject are due to the placement of the subject in relation to the sun. |
For back ground shadows: Move
the subject forward or bounce the light off the ceiling.
For facial shadows: use a filler flash or move the subject to a better location. Watch out for hot spots! Don't pick an area which is a mixture of shadow and sunlight. |
| Your pictures are dark even if you used a flash. | You might be too far from your subject or your settings may be wrong on your flash or camera. | Most flashes have a range of no greater than 12 feet.( Some point and shoots are even less). So move your subject closer to you or the camera closer to the subject. Your might try setting your F-stop to 5.6 and your shutter to 30th or 60th of a second. |
| When you shoot close-ups with the point and shoot, the subjects are out of focus and over exposed. | Your point and shoot camera has a very limited lens and flash range. | Move the camera away from the subject or the subject away from the camera. |
| Your existing light pictures have a green tone. | Florescent light causes this effect. It may look clear or white to you but the film sees it as green. | Change the bulbs to day light
(expensive).
Use a flash to correct the effect. On a SLR camera add an FLD filter. Fuji film seems to correct this problem. |
| Your existing light pictures have an orange tone. | Typical light bulbs use tungsten which causes this effect. The film sees it as orange light. | Use Tungsten balanced film.
Change the bulbs to non Tungsten bulbs. Use a filler flash. Some photographers use the tungsten to add warmth and ambiance. |
| You want to use your camera underwater. | You have been watching too many National Geographic TV specials. | Don't! Unless your camera is made for that activity. I would strongly recommend you don't even think about it!! |
| You want to avoid blurred action pictures. | Blurred pictures are caused by having the wrong settings on your camera, (sorry point and shoots don't have these settings). | For an action shot move your shutter speed to the highest possible that lighting conditions will allow (over 125). Also use 400 speed film. |
| You don't want to use your lens cover. | You feel it gets in the way. | Keep the lens cover on the camera, when not in use. A nick or scratch can cost more to repair than the lens itself cost. |
| Your lens has dirt and finger prints on it. | Your child was touching the lens. | Clean it with photographic cleaner only. NEVER use eye glass cleaner. It can take the protective coat off the lens. |
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