Originally Posted by supapoopa
dayum thanks for the critiques. I admit that I took most all the pics in AUTO mode. I started messing with the manual controls today but still don't have a clue as to what I'm doing yet. Need to read the manual.
One thing I am having trouble with is the background getting washed out. Is there some setting I can mess with to get good foreground focus and still get the background.
I was taking some pics of my car and the background just didn't want to show. When taking pics of with tall trees the scenery behind it gets bloched out in white (second pic). examples... any advice?
Ok what you are talking about there is the DOF (depth of field).
DOF is a good thing really and the optimal is to have what is called boca. Boca is when the background does a sort of soft progressive fade to blur. This is honestly the way the human eye sees things. Take a look at something like the back of the chair with your eye and notice how when you focus on one thing the rest of the items behind it are a bit soft.
If you want everything clear and unblurred then you will need to extend you shutter time and down your aperature, it is a little harder to do in broad daylight than it is in dusk or low light settings.
BTW extending the shutter and lowering the aperature does not work on moving objects
