Show off your Compact & Bridge Photos

Hi
Great shots and I attended a talk on Saturday and the lecturers told us they have dropped the DSLR for bridge cameras and shot only in JPEG. The photos prints shown were brilliant. It really is all down to the photographer's eye not so much the equipment, which some get detracted by.

Taken with a Canon SX120 IS in macro mode.

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Originally Posted by carregwen

If you mean the flowers, I either use a large black art mount board (the stuff that's used for mounting photos). Or, if I'm outdoors I use the black surface of a fold-up reflector/diffuser - one of those 5-in-1 thingees, like this thingee. Pretty cheap, and light to carry.

A nice portrait shot you have there.

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That was an old post of the first page of this thread.
I'm really stupid, but dare to ask: where do you put or lay the "reflector"? I mean, do you place it on the camera or somewhere near the object?

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Taken with a Canon SX120 IS in macro mode.

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Hi Amy,

Welcome to the CiC forums from me, great to have you join us and with a picture in the first post.

Not bad at all, how long have you been shooting with the SX120 and 'into' photography?

Cheers,

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I'm really stupid, but dare to ask: where do you put or lay the "reflector"? I mean, do you place it on the camera or somewhere near the object?

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Eva-Maria

I'm sure Rob will come in with his response once he sees your post.

But, in the meantime, you might want to have a look at the discussion about reflectors that's been taking place in the 'School of Portraiture' lessons that Colin is running on C in C. His first lesson is here. And the second one is here. It is the second one that starts getting in to some detail about reflectors.

Oh yes, thank for the links: there was found many pictures of the reflector - and shown how it works - great! That's something I must try out, too. TY!

These are beautiful. Who makes the Finepix S-7000? I am new to this and have a Canon Power Shot A720 IS.

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These are beautiful. Who makes the Finepix S-7000? I am new to this and have a Canon Power Shot A720 IS.

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Hi there and welcome to the CiC forums,

Quick answer; Fuji

Cheers,

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These are beautiful. Who makes the Finepix S-7000? I am new to this and have a Canon Power Shot A720 IS.

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The slightly longer answer is that the S7000 is over five years old now, although mine still works as well as the day I bought it. The HS10 seems to be the latest offering from Fuji although the S200EXR looks pretty nifty too. The fuji cameras always seem to give very vibrant colours at bit like the old fuji film.

Steve

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Out in Los Angeles for a few days R & R. Took this photograph with my P90, didn't do any post processing. I had planned to ask one of the forum members "how does a photographer get shots of those curls without getting wet?" I guess this is the answer. This was taken from the boardwalk at Santa Monica Pier mid afternoon, used a CP filter on my DSLR for most of my other shots.

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Pier at Shoreline Village in Long Beach, California. Taken with a Nikon S220 point and shoot.

My pocket/travel camera is a Panasonic Lumix LX3. I only shoot RAW, mostly in AV mode, but the only way to get true DOF with these P&S cameras seems to be in manual focus, and it does a reasonable job. I spent almost a month in the UK in May and took only my LX3 as I didn't want to carry all the Canon gear. I am very impressed with the LX3, and it's main downside is a limited zoom.

The first is a new building in Manchester with a massive cantilevered overhang. I have done some editing in HDR to achieve this unrealistic result.
The second is a small garden I discovered in London CBD, and the tulips were so beautiful. I used the front flower as an attention grabber, and the DOF here worked very well.
The third is a forested area in far western Scotland near the island of Ghia.

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Nice shots Jim. Great colors in all three. Welcome to the group.

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Nice shots Jim. Great colors in all three. Welcome to the group.

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Thanks John. You were a bit quick for me and I was editing the extra fluff code from around the images as I posted the html code from my Flikr site. This is the first time I have linked an image, so I am getting the idea.
Jim

I think this guy must have checked himself in to West Coast Choppers for a custom paint job!

Shot with a waterproof Panasonic DMC-TS1 in macro. Not the greatest, but at least a decent PFD Pocket Derringer that I don’t have to worry about when I fall into the river!

Took about 4-5 shots before the wind took him away. Tried as is, with flash, with flash with EC @ -1 stop, -2 stops, and finally settled on this one with EC @ 0 and a white bounce card (quickly cut out from a Sweet & Low box) to attempt to soften the shadows and shed a little light on the lower right side and his head.

No idea what kind it is.

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I think this guy must have checked himself in to West Coast Choppers for a custom paint job!

Shot with a waterproof Panasonic DMC-TS1 in macro. Not the greatest, but at least a decent PFD Pocket Derringer that I don’t have to worry about when I fall into the river!

Took about 4-5 shots before the wind took him away. Tried as is, with flash, with flash with EC @ -1 stop, -2 stops, and finally settled on this one with EC @ 0 and a white bounce card (quickly cut out from a Sweet & Low box) to attempt to soften the shadows and shed a little light on the lower right side and his head.

No idea what kind it is.

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Hi Terry,

Nice shot, I am not a bug expert but it looks like a banded sphinx moth. I did a search and after two pages found a similar looking specimen.

Taken with my first camera, other than my phone.
Is a powershot s90
3-+ex
photomatix
cs2
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THE CRACK, Tate Modern, London

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THE STACK, Tate Modern

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MAIN HALL, Tate Modern

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Canon A520

wowwwwww steve...i googled the finepix s700 - cnet's given it a terrible rating, and yr pics are awesome!!! are you sure you got the height in the first 2 pics with that camera? oh...or is it panos click and stitched??? must be a dumb question but i'm on the verge of deciding on a camera and keep getting confused with all the awesome results i see online from various cams and the average rating everyone seems to get...

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... i'm on the verge of deciding on a camera and keep getting confused with all the awesome results i see online from various cams and the average rating everyone seems to get...

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Hi Mitesh,

That's because, as we often say; it's the guy or gal with their finger on the button that makes far, FAR more difference to the images produced than the camera's spec. so go with one that feels comfortable to you, including finding your way around the menus. Oh, and second is good PP techniques, the camera comes fourth, after the lens if DSLR, or joint third if P&S with fixed lens :)

Cheers,