Canon Powershot S2 IS: photography, help and advice

On of my favorites from yesterday
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Love the shots of the bees!! :) Turned out great! BTW, seems as if the American and German bees look different! :)

Kirsten

great pics!
Here are some that I took in California:
Red Sunflowers that Richard bought us from a lady on the street - Tonya and I were flabbergasted that there were RED SUNFLOWERS until Kelly said that they put the dye in the stems and turn them red hence making the water PINK! ;)
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Flower's from Gini''s Garden
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a drink
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My toes
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more in next post

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flowers from the offical PT hat made by Slick
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and last
Rascal LOVED my shoes!
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Great pictures, and what a cool hat!! :)

BTW, we have REAL red sonflowers here, at least I saw them growing in a friend's garden:

http://www.kirsten-scheffel.de/fl6.jpg

Kirsten

Great pictures, I also love the hat!! :D

I have a "job" for this Saturday, I have to be the "photographer" at my brothers wedding reception that is at our house. I asked my mom if I had to work/ help on Saturday, and she said no, but then she said I am going to be the "photographer" :p I'm really excited, but I don't want the people to stop what they are doing, and smile at the camera, I want everyone to just keep on with what they are doing, so I can capture the atmosphere. Hopefully the people will cooperate!

that's exciting!
I'll look forward to seeing the results!

I took some more pics at my parents house today.
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color swap
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lens right up next to the flower
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Kiki got into a nuclear power plant!
Messing with the color swap. ;)
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Some recent stuff...

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More...

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And some older stuff...

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my lens was steamed up! but I think they turned out ok:)
and it was hard to find blooms that didn't have a ton of Japanese beetles in them or that hadn't been ravaged by them. :(

Great pictures everyone, but Riptide, yours look truly professional!
What kind of camera do you use, a SLR (reflex cam)? And which settings did you use for those? The pictures are so clear, and the colors look so bright and natural! I especially love the picture of the seal. :)

Kirsten

Thanks! Yep, I use the Canon EOS Digital Rebel, which is an SLR. I believe I used the action mode for all of them because the sudder speed is faster that way ^^ Although I think I used Portrait for the profile of Pixie...can't remember for sure though.

A few more...these were taken in California.

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