High Flowers

Posted by Tobian (New York, United States) on 12 June 2008 in Plant & Nature.

Fire Island, NY

Comments (4)

yonas from United Kingdom

nice shot ... does your camera give you full control of its aperture (to get the blurry background effect)? i thought you needed a more advanced camera (slr type) do that kinda thing.

i'm hunting for a new camera, so i'm starting to pay attention to these details

22 Jun 2008 10:56am

Tobian from New York, United States

It does give me 'full control' of its aperture if i put it on manual mode, but it's aperture range is a lot smaller than a clunky non-digital SLR I have (i think the S3 goes 2.8 - 8, and the longest the shutter stays open is ~15 min). I am glad i have the manual option with this camera, but I probably only use it 10% of the time -- I don't think its ever possible to emulate the SLR experience by adjusting your aperture and speed while clicking some obscure buttons and attempting to take pictures at the same time.

Almost all the pictures I've posted were taken in automatic mode. For the effect above and couple of other pics i just posted, I basically have to keep my distance from the object just far enough so that the focus is not at infinity. Then I have to max the zoom on my subject to get the blurry portrait effect. I have not yet managed to achieve this on a large object. e.g. waist up of a person.

Having said that, for what the camera is supposed to do, I like my Canon.

24 Jun 2008 3:09pm

yonas from United Kingdom

thank you! interesting way of tricking your camera's auto mode to get the desired effect. i'll give it a try with my point-and-shoot.

24 Jun 2008 9:40pm

Tobian from New York, United States

i meant 15 sec, not min. min would be heaven.

25 Jun 2008 1:04am

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Canon PowerShot S3 IS
1/40 second
F/3.5
72 mm