Canada Picture-blog - digg this
So a few of the pictures I took actually looked pretty decent and I figured I'd share.
These signs tickled me. I'm sure that makes me immature.
The TIm Horton's that I never visited. "Tojours Frais" means always fresh, which I understand they aren't. I would have taken pictures of the donuts because they did look miiiigthy tasty, but I feared that they might not understand someone taking pictures of something that they weren't buying. Getting arrested for some sort of weird industrial espionage wasn't on my "to do" list.
Now this, this was good stuff. This was the moccacino and biscotti that I had at Second Cup. These folks could teach those Seattle guys a thing or twelve about making a mocha.
A classy looking McDonalds. No I did NOT eat here tyvm. In an act of quiet desperation I almost did, but they didn't take AMEX.
This is a beautiful church. I didn't get inside, but I imagine it was equally nice. I took several night pictures that turned out pretty crappy. Here are the least crappy.
I like that the camera focused on that branch. It's actually a nice effect. The other night pictures made me look epileptic.
See. Any of you camera buffs help me with that?
More pictures later.
Total Number of Comments: 7
I got your email, but was trying to finesse a response that wouldn't sound prickish, but I came up with nothing. Honestly, there's no way to fix that motion after the fact. Photoshop has some things you can do which will sharpen and fix a lot of problems, but motion-blur is basically a lost cause.
You can, however, learn from past mistakes. That's the way to become better.
The best way to take shots like this on the other hand, is to not hold the camera, period. Set it down, frame your shot, set the 2 sec timer and walk away. Then, do it about 3-5 more times using a little slower shutter speed than you think you need. Remember, you can always bring down exposure in post, but it's much harder to fix an underexposed image.
If there's absolutely no way you can even think about setting the camera on something stable, then crank your ISO up over 800, shorten your f-stop to as low as you can get it, and take 3x more pictures than you would otherwise. Chances are they'll all still turn out with problems, but you might get 1 or 2 out of the bunch that's perfect.
I didn't figure that there was but a guy can hope. I really want to get some sort of good tripod for my camera.
And don't be afraid to sound prickish. I run all your emails through a filter.
Do the filters make me sound like a Pirate?
No, more like Al Gore.
*applauds*
I had not heard of Tim Hortons until we drove to Toronto.
Theoretically they have a presence here in certain northern states. Their donuts looked mighty big-n-tasty.