Canon Powershot S2 IS: photography, help and advice

[shais_mom]

I figgered out some of the modes on my camera purely by accident -
some of them aren't as clear as I'd like but I am happy with them overall.
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/w...=9Qas2bFs1UUxA

[Sonia59]

Toby's my baby, #3, 4, 6 are my favorite

Kirsten, your pictures are very beautiful. I love the dragonfly picture

[Kirsten]

Thanks, Sonia!

Toby's my Baby, I love #5!

I also took some new shots meanwhile:


Full Moon
The moon, again, the full moon of last night. I used a flash this time. I think more than this is not possible with this cam, at least I tried various settings and this was the best result:




Orange Lily 2
I tried it again, without using flash. This time, the background turned out totally black, but I think it's not too bad.




LOL; edited because I just noticed: Maybe I should unite these two pictures somehow (unfortunately, I don't know anything about digiart) as a symbol for my girls. "Luna" and "Lily", you know...


Say "Cheeeese"!
I'm a bit upset with this one. It looked just perfect on the camera's display, but once downloaded to my computer, I found the contrast is too high, and it's also not really sharp.



Kirsten

[Kirsten]

LOL, I just "played" a bit and here's Luna's and Lily's new "emblem":




Kirsten

[Roxyluvsme13]

LOL, I just "played" a bit and here's Luna's and Lily's new "emblem":




Kirsten

I love that .

[Sonia59]

I could not find Orange Lily #1 back to compare the background, but you were very lucky with this shot! Do you have an idea how it turned black?

I bought a mini tripod and wanted to try catching the moon yesterday, but it was behind the clouds! I'll try another day.

[shais_mom]

great pics Kirsten!
Love the digi-art one!