[TheForge] Re: Photographing your work, the G3

Thu Jun 5 19:08:00 2003

Kirsten.  The G3 gives you all those options of controlling the shutter
speed and aperature, but just a bit of a warning, you can't quite get the
same effect as you describe with a film camera, but very close.  The G3 has
a built in ND filter that you can turn on and off to help you shoot with
your lens wide open. If you are at full telephoto and f2.8 the result will
be pretty good. The other option is to blur the background with subsequent
photoshop work, and that is not hard either.

Harry
Rusty Dog Forge

Does the G3 let you manipulate Fstop and shutter speed sorts of things, or
the digital equivalent, so that you can make the background blurrier while
the subject is in focus?  That is the only thing I miss about film cameras.
I still use my old Minolta with the kids so I can get those effects.
-Kirsten
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 http://home.centurytel.net/Fiorini_and_Skiles

----- Original Message -----
From: "H and P Foster" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 5:06 AM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Re: Photographing your work

> Phlip.  A very good digital camera that I recommend to any and all is the
> Canon G3.  It can be used as a point and shoot camera of one can use its
> very professional features and get incredible results. You can even hook
it
> up to a laptop and control all the camera features from the laptop and
your
> computer screen becomes the camera screen, so you really see what you are
> doing.  It has pretty well the best battery life of any camera out there
and
> the brightest LCD screen works very well outside in bright light, unlike a
> lot of them. The other great feature of the screen is that it flips out
from
> the camera body and will rotate so you can get shooting angles that are
very
> difficult or impossible with cameras that have the screen fixed on the
back.
>
> In the spring issue 2002 of the Hammer's Blow, I did an article on how to
> photograph your ironwork.  This was showing techniques to get very nice
> results without having to spend a lot of money on lighting equipment,
using
> both daylight and tungston lighting.  Brian Gilbert also showed a home
made
> device he uses to get good lighting results. Not sure of the issue, but it
> was around the same time.
>
> The industry standard software is "Adobe Photoshop". It is quite expensive
> (like more than the camera) but the software that comes with the camera
will
> more than satisfy you to start.
>
> Best of luck and oh yea, I like reading your stuff too.
>
> Harry Foster
> Rusty Dog Forge
> http://pages.infinit.net/rustydog/home.htm
>
>
>

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