Another vote for getting the biggest card you can afford and just taking lots of shots. Always carry extra batteries. The lag time can be a drag, but you learn to live with it. Just keep shooting! Play with it! I think you can buy your way out of shutter lag by getting a Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera.
I have a tendency to get in my girls’ faces with the camera rather than use zoom. I get some interesting facial expressions that way.
OK, if you insist:
Stunning actionshots! Sometimes I’ll keep the fuzzy ones because I like an expression or some other aspect. Plus I’m their dad. What’s not to like? Ambient lighting! Buddypictures! I couldn’t get them to pose like this in a million years.
Taken with a fujifilm finepix E510 on auto.
I tend to photograph in spurts. I won’t touch the camera for a month, then I’ll take 250 shots in a weekend, won’t touch the camera for a month, etc.
Also, don’t forget to shut off the camera after uploading pictures! I sometimes get all wrapped up in viewing pictures and leave the camera on.
I took literally 100 shots last night and didn’t like even one of them! I used the portrait setting on my camera, had some ambient lighting, etc etc … some of them would have been okay but they were blurry!
The portrait setting must have a slower shutter speed ?
Also, I notice that the little LCD display on the camera shows a different ‘picture’ than the viewfinder. (I am one of those freaks that can’t close just one eye, so I can’t use the viewfinder unless I put one hand over my eye). The centering is different. It might look great on the LCD display but then when I look at the picture later, it’s like the picture has moved up … hard to explain, but it’s frustrating.
I will get more batteries and keep on practicing … might even copy some of your great snaps …
If you’re going to shoot without the flash, you’ll need to really practice not moving the camera during the shot. Get yourself set up, stay steady, squeeze the button, hold still, and don’t release until the shutter closes. It’s not easy to do, but you’ll get the hang of it.
Of course, that doesn’t prevent your subject from moving all over the place, but it gives you a better chance of getting a few good shots in there. From my own experience, I got about one success for every twelve to fifteen shots. Hooray for digital cameras!
And since this thread has become a thinly-veiled excuse for us to share some extremely cute pictures of our kids, I’ll offer my own example.
