Thank-you, I missed that, or was it in the NYT article? which I couldn't read because I had reached my limit of free views.
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What makes a great picture?
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is that for me? i linked the article where it said about his camera in the same post. not from nyt.
As I watched the piece on 9/11, I was reminded of another somber day 8 years later when the US Air flight landed on the Hudson. I was recruited by my associate to take a project managers job in Tacoma. The company I was going to work for was in Alexandria, VA. I had to fly down from Rochester NY for a meeting on Jan. 15, 2009. I flew from Roch to NY's LaGuardia to pick up a connecting flight to DC. I took off an hour before Flight 1549 on a Air Bus A320, on the same runway and we turned left over the Hudson just like 1549. I was sitting in the back of the plane along with 5 or 6 US Air flight attendants. As we landed in DC all the flight attendants took out their phones and started to gasp. One gal said she had 15 messages from her mother. Then one said "we just had a crash" and they all went silent. I pulled out my iPhone and open a news app that showed the plane floating on the river with everybody standing on the wings, I handed her my phone and asked "is this your plane?" and they were all relieved to see what a tremendous job Sully had done landing that plane. It could have easily been our plane that day. I flew back the next night landing at Laguardia to get back to Roch. I looked down at the Hudson and how small it looked. The US Air gates were very quiet and solemn. I remember Sully saying he went through all the procedures for a water landing, and the last thing he was supposed to do was shut a valve to stop water getting in, but he said never had time to do that.
I was on my way to another site and had to land at Newark airport about 2 weeks after 9/11. As our plane taxied down the runway I could see all the smoke from the still smoldering pile of debris from across the river. Your husband was very lucky. My wife's boss had a son that worked at Leman Bros. and saw the whole event from a building near the towers, it took him a long time to get over it.
He also said " you can be 2 hours early but if you are 1/60 late, you won't get the photograph".
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Hmm, not all of us. I carry a P&S when I am not in the mood to carry my heavy artillery. I shoot raw and most definitely do worry about what happens after.
I started my photography career in a darkroom. I say that so you’ll understand where my following statement is coming from.
An all around great photo doesn’t exist and never will. Why is that? Simple. A great photo is in the eye on the one who took the photo. What looks great to you may or may not look great to someone else. What looks horrible to you will be an abstract masterpiece to me.
The bottom line is if it looks great to you then that all that matters.
An all around great photo doesn’t exist and never will. Why is that? Simple. A great photo is in the eye on the one who took the photo. What looks great to you may or may not look great to someone else. What looks horrible to you will be an abstract masterpiece to me.
The bottom line is if it looks great to you then that all that matters.
I kind of agree and disagree. A great photo can also be taken by someone else and appreciated by the viewer.
Oh I agree completely. My point was that if you took the photo and you like it, then that’s all that matters.
Understood. I think though of photography as a journey. I can recall photos I took years ago I thought were really good. Now I look at them and think they wouldn’t make the first cull in LR.
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Hardly, I shoot P&S exclusively and any images I use get at least a minute or so in PhotoShop, and believe me you can do a lot to-for an image in one minute. One simple example: Anything with a lot of blue sky will tend to show jpeg artifacts. Maybe I'll do a simple blur of that area or if I have anticipated the problem I shot a burst and will stack 2 or 3 of the images to clear the artifacts.
Another example: Typically I use the exposure bias and slightly underexpose to assure I've captured the highlights. Post image I will often adjust the shadows to bring out or blacken detail.
You are correct In the video he's holding a Sony camera. Also, the AP switched from Canon to Sony about a year ago. Canon was with the AP as the primary camera until 2016. Nikon was in the mix as well, then in 2020 Sony became the AP camera for photo and video.
Most people with a P&S are not editing photos, just downloading and posting. I'm sure some do but I doubt that is the majority.
You had a lot of valid pointers from participants in this forum on your frog snapshot that indicated that at least some of the time, editing of your images might be called for. Obviously, you may think differently, which is cool. Your point/shoot is not a magic box, but a tool that helps out in certain areas and in certain situations. To take it back to the point of this thread, you need good composition, intent, and an understanding of fundamentals (exposure, etc) to get the best out of your camera and to produce anything beyond a basic snaphot without luck. This is whether it is your $500 point/shoot, a $1000.00 iPhone or a $6.5k A1/d6 etc.
Snapshots are great, don’t get me wrong. It’s how we record our lives and I take plenty of them. But your question, and the point of this thread, was what makes a great picture. It has little bearing on the tool itself - your point/shoot or otherwise - but rather how the human behind it chooses to express themselves. Each camera has limitations, sometimes very challenging ones, regardless of its cost. Understanding them is how you create great pictures with whatever optical instrument you have to hand.
If you are shooting RAW you always have to edit images. When you shoot JPEG the images are edited in the camera. So your Powershot is fixing the images to how it thinks they should look. Now because it has a small sensor you won't get the dynamic range or low light capabilities a bigger sensor has.
There is a difference from being a hobby and having fun vs just taking a picture.
Actually I think it does, but he wants the camera to do it all for him. That said there is not a lot to be gained going RAW when the sensor is size 4.8x6.4mm, you are not bothered by blown highlights, and you honestly believe the camera spits out a perfect JPEG image every time.
FWIW over the past 18 years I've had 2 different Olympus P&S cameras and both produced well balanced images right out of the camera. Even so the darkroom era of my personal history still has me at the very least mildly tweaking even those images.
Here is an example from my Olympus 12MP waterproof camera. Almost no changes, except I did clone out the remnants of an old orange plastic bag that was nestled into the pine needles, and reduced the image size to suit my needs. Were I being super fussy there is a highlight just above the stove that I would have just slightly darkened.
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No, a look at the specs for his Powershot SX740HS tells you that it is JPEG only and does not offer RAW and that the sensor is a tiny 1/23-inch one with a rather slow lens of f/3.3-f/6.9. Of course, at 40x zoom. (24-960mm), that is unsurprising, as that is a lot of territory to cover!
Also, oddly enough, unless it were an error on the specs list I was viewing, while it has P, M and TV along with "hybrid Auto" and Auto, as well as some "scene modes," there doesn't seem to be the possibility of the user controlling the aperture. ?? [correction: I checked another source and indeed it does have AV mode, which makes more sense.] No viewfinder of any sort, either. Definitely not a camera meant for the person who wants to control as many aspects of the shooting and viewing experience as possible!
"Actually I think it does, but he wants the camera to do it all for him. That said there is not a lot to be gained going RAW when the sensor is size 4.8x6.4mm, you are not bothered by blown highlights, and you honestly believe the camera spits out a perfect JPEG image every time."
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No, a look at the specs for his Powershot SX740HS tells you that it is JPEG only and does not offer RAW and that the sensor is a tiny 1/23-inch one with a rather slow lens of f/3.3-f/6.9. Of course, at 40x zoom. (24-960mm), that is unsurprising, as that is a lot of territory to cover!
Also, oddly enough, unless it were an error on the specs list I was viewing, while it has P, M and TV along with "hybrid Auto" and Auto, as well as some "scene modes," there doesn't seem to be the possibility of the user controlling the aperture. ?? [correction: I checked another source and indeed it does have AV mode, which makes more sense.] No viewfinder of any sort, either. Definitely not a camera meant for the person who wants to control as many aspects of the shooting and viewing experience as possible!
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Even if you could, it would not be easy to do.