This month's challenge is to compare using automatic settings and using the pre-sets.
My camera is a Canon EOS 450 D, digital reflex, which I have had for about five years. All these photos were taken using the 18-55 lens.
Portrait
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| pre-set - portrait |
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| auto |
Landscape
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| auto |
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| pre-set - landscape |
The only difference I can see here is pre-set is lighter. I don't think this is the most inspiring landscape but the pre-set shows more contrast.
Close up
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| auto |
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| pre-set - close-up |
Both photos were taken with the automatic flash which makes the background dark. Neither give the true colour. In the pre-set photo another orchid stem to the left of the subject is less defined than in the automatic, but that may be because I moved closer to the subject.
Action
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| auto |
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| pre-set sports |
Looking again at the original photos at 100% size, and not these .jpg versions, the drops are much clearer in the sports than in the automatic, where they are all elongated.
Well Katy has certainly set me LOOKING at my photos and also comparing the data. I hope that as this challenge progresses I'll know what I'm doing well enough to be less of a hit and miss camera junkie.
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Happy snapping everyone
Marly.
PS
While I was crawling around photographing the orchid I couldn't resist taking a shot with a manual setting (Av 5.6) focussing on the very centre of the flower. No flash; the background is a net curtain and there's brilliant sunlight on the other side. The colour isn't right here either, but it's more realistic than in the two above.
3 comments:
Well done, and nicely analysed too :o) The pre-sets apply colour processing that's slightly different to the auto modes, hence some of the colour differences you've seen.
For the portrait one, I suspect the bush isn't clearer in auto because you filled the frame quite well with Sleepy (?!) and because of the space between him and the bush, the auto concentrated on him alone, and the aperture it chose threw the bush out (if that makes sense)
I think on the close up one the focus in the preset one hasn't actually hit the white tip of the flower, so the focal plane is further back. It looks like it chose a pretty wide aperture for the shot, hence the nearest petal isn't really in focus. That's the thing that makes all the presets and auto modes risky, you never quite know what they'll chose to focus on!
Love your analysis of all your shots Marly! Those flowers are gorgeous but Happy Dwarf is great fun!
I definitely see differences in yours that I didn't in my own. This is interesting isn't it.
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