Whosyer Photography

My camera sucks, please help me

admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:23:19 +0000

The other day I was at Circuit City looking at some computer stuff and overheard someone talking to an associate about how they always take horrible pictures. Their camera, from what I heard was a Canon PowerShot (don’t recall the model number), and the person’s pictures always turn out dark and grainy.

As I’m standing there thinking to myself that (1) camera’s rarely take lousy pictures and (2) it’s more about the skill of the person holding the camera and their ability to know the functions of said camera.

I admit, I’m a bad person when i comes to learning the functions of my many cameras. I’m allowed, I’m a busy college student. But, considering I’m making a return trip to California at the end of Januray, I shoould at least know the capabilities of my Canon XSi (450D international). But anways, back to the poor Circuit City associate.

So, this guy was like I want a camera that takes good photos in low-light with it out appearing grainy. The associate, points the guy to the higher end Canon 50D (the mid-level dSLR Canon makes). The customer scoffs, staying Canon sucks.

The associate replies: Sir, Canon is the top camera manufacturer in the United States.

The customer says Canon still sucks. He wants a Nikon. The associate points the customer toward the Nikons and they talk about Nikons briefly. Now, not only does the associate sell the guy an expensive dSLR camera, he also sells him a FireDog package that’ll teach the guy how to use his camera.

Too funny.

I wonder if the customer will return to Circuit after the holidays complaining his camera still takes crappy pictures.

Photo of the Day

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:12:06 +0000

Proud to be American

Shopping for a new camera

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:01:40 +0000

It never ceases to amaze me the reviews on Amazon.com about various cameras. Every so often you’ll find someone saying that “this camera doesn’t perform as well as my Mark 1″ or “the autofocus doesn’t work” or “this camera’s flash doesn’t peform well.”

One of things that I’ve learned is that crappy pictures are often the result of user error, not the camera’s inability to perform to expectations.

Granted, you pay for what you get. Naturally, a $9000 camera isn’t going to peform as well as a $600 camera. If you’re expecting the same quality, then you’re in for a real quick surprise. Or saying that the internal flash is slow to respond is pointless. You’ll get that with any camera. The best answer to a flash problem is to go to an external flash.

So, when you go out camera shopping, keep that in mind. Great photography is about 90% mental and 10% user.

ISO test

admin — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:25:24 +0000

A friend from the board that I manage wants to see some images. So i’m posting a couple ISO photos for him. I think the quality of the image speaks for themselves. Note, I snapped this pics real quick. lighting is bad.

1600 ISO

80 ISO (with flash)

Photo gallery online

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:03:24 +0000

I’m slowly getting the photo gallery back online. I’m using a gallery software to help speed up the process of getting photos online in a gallery format. So far, I’ve gotten three galleries up from three South Bend Silver Hawks games, a gallery up from my city’s Memorial Day ceromonies and parade and a gallery up from my trip to Chicago in July.

In the coming days, I’ll get galleries up from the White Sox game, the fireworks, images from my university campus and images from around the area. You can access the gallery from the link at the top of the page.

Back online

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:54:56 +0000

For some reason, whenever I would go to update WordPress, my server would kill the original installation. I got tired of fixing it, so I just killed the original and restarted the website. Since I didn’t have the sense to back up posts, I lost all of the original posts.

Not great loss, I believe.