Originally posted by trayi52
... the photos were so clear...
camera really made the water so beautiful.

Did you have to adjust the shutter speed
to get the water to show up like that?
Dad's <blushin>!

The camera is a 3 mega-Pixel Canon A70.

When I'm shooting the Dawgs, I usually set it for Fast Shutter Mode -
which selects the Fastest Shutter SPEED possible to freeze motion,
and opens the Aperture (LOW f-stop number).

As with most Digi Cams - there IS a delay between ME starting to take
the pix and WHEN the camera gets done adjusting its settings
and gets around to actually "taking" the photo.

I often "rush" the procedure an mush down on the shutter button
*before* the camera is really "ready" to shoot...
Result is often *blurred* focus or bad exposure =

Another camera option allows "Continuous Shooting" where the camera
snaps pix at the rate of 2 shots per second.
Works GREAT for grabbing "action" shots - IF you remember to let the
camera get itself "adjusted" for Focus and Aperture before
you start shooting the sequence...
Try to "rush" the camera - and you've just taken 20 bad shots
in the blink of an eye!

I've often tried asking the Dawgs to Hold That Pose while
the camera and I try to get everything adjusted and ready to fire...
but somehow that request never seems to get there in time.

But - we're learnin as we go along!