New Camera - Need Critique

muleskinner222 said:
Now place your gray card where your subject will be, set your white balance to "AWB" be sure to fill your lens with the gray card, set your aperture (F stop) to what you desire for the photo, and adjust the shutter speed until it shows properly exposed for the gray card. (make sure not to have glare on the card) Take a photo. you should see something like this (not my photo) spike in the center of the histogram.

Now go into your "custom white balance" and use that image to set it up. Replace the gray card with a knife and see what you get. Scott
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Scott, You-da-man. Even though I can't find my old 18% gray card, I used a piece of gray paper to get close and it worked like a charm.

As a side note, when looking through the camera manual on setting a custom white balance, a teeny-weeny foot-note recommended an 18% gray card for a more accurate white balance.

69_knives said:
I'm not sure about that particular camera but one thing I learned to do with my point and shoot was when it was set to get the exposure settings from a single point in the centre of the frame I would move the target to lighter or darker areas, depress the shutter 1/2 way to set up the image then re-centre the frame and take the pic. I would always take at least 3 pics setting the frame in this manner so I would have 3 pics with different exposure levels and choose the best one once they are on the PC.

Another trick is tape a white cloth or paper towel over the flash and use it to fill in the fore ground. the cover will reduce the sharp glare / reflection.
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I know what you mean. This camera has an exposure lock that I can use, or I can bracket (shoot shots with different f-stops. I haven't gotten around to trying fill-flash yet, but you can bet it will come.

Now I remember why I love this forum. Help is only a few keystrokes away.

Thank you guys so very much. I may have to ask for help again.

Robert
 
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