Thanks, I have no photoshop, but I use PSP for my pics. I'm a total amateur as it comes to those things. I will look into it though, only if I could find the time. If you want to see some pics I took, go look here http://comunity.webshots.com/user/lookheretitia it will give you an idea what I'm doing. I usually take pics to write my English poetry to.
Hi Titia. I am also quite new in this site, but I'll try to explain what I mean. Levels/saturation: Theres are digital images which are handled with a photo editing program (I hope you do have one; if you don't, you are going to be limited in your handling of pictures). Any good editing program (Photoshop, The Gimp, Picture Windows, and many other) allows several types of adjustments. The two I think can help your picture are: 1) Saturation (meaning the increase/decrease of color intensity without changing the hue); I think you need a bit more saturation, and 2)Levels (this is a bit more complicated to explain, but you can say it allows white to become real white and black real black, with the possibilitu of changing the brightness of the tones in between - hope I am clear); Your image is a bit flat, in the sense that there is very little brightness variation. By playing around with the controls of the levels adjustment, you can get a better tonal gradation (meaning a better spread of intensity tones). DOF stands for Depth of Field. Not easy to explain that (I would suggest you look up a photo book), but in essence means the zone where image will be sharp (depends on your lens/aperture/distance). In your image. Some parts of the flower are very sharp, but as you go to the back of the flower, it is increasingly off focus. This is a DOF characteristic. To solve it in this particular case, you needed a smaller aperture (bigger f/number). I am not familiar with your camera, but on automatic you can't do much, since the camera selects the f/ value. I would recommend for this type of picture, that you use (if the camera has it) the A (or aperture priority) mode, this way you decide what f/ value to use and the camera sets the shutter speed. Sorry for the lenghty comment, and I hope it does help.
Hi Enzo, thanks for your comment. I'm new here, don't know anything about levels/saturation, oh boy, have to look that one up in my dictionary. You're right about the background. What's DOF???? I'm just a dumm Dutchie LOL
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