New camera

[Aoibara]

I returned my old camera to my Dad and exchanged it for a better camera.

So, I played around with the camera (Geez, the shutter is really fast, it took like...Ten photos at once?), and this is so far my favorite results after I took photos of my dolls~ :





What I see: There is obviously a big gap in quality within my old one (See old posts for my older photos) and this one. I think the subject has a higher clarity, and not so "chunky". Anyways, I will still practice using this thing and tell me if you have any advice for these kind of advanced cameras. Thank you!

[absynthe1972]

Is it a point and shoot or dslr?

As for taking 10 photos at once, that sounds like a burst function. You should be able to turn that off.

[Aoibara]

Is it a point and shoot or dslr?

As for taking 10 photos at once, that sounds like a burst function. You should be able to turn that off.

This is a DSLR camera.

About that burst function, I think I am fine with it since I can just click it just to take one, or hold it long to take the ten photos. Plus I seen my father using that. Thanks anyways!

[cirquemom]

Looks good! The one suggestion I would have is that if you don't want the yellow overtones, there should be a setting for changing the lighting that you access through the menu. Tungsten light (like light bulb lighting) gives photographs a yellow tinge; florescent lighting gives a blue tinge. You can use the setting on your camera to adjust for that and give you a more natural light (or you can do it manually in photoshop after the fact- but I think it's easier to just use the setting on the camera). On the other hand- in your pictures the yellowing looks kind of cool.

[Aoibara]

Looks good! The one suggestion I would have is that if you don't want the yellow overtones, there should be a setting for changing the lighting that you access through the menu. Tungsten light (like light bulb lighting) gives photographs a yellow tinge; florescent lighting gives a blue tinge. You can use the setting on your camera to adjust for that and give you a more natural light (or you can do it manually in photoshop after the fact- but I think it's easier to just use the setting on the camera). On the other hand- in your pictures the yellowing looks kind of cool.

Thank you! Unfortunately, my camera is Chinese. Although I can read some Chinese (Because Japanese and Chinese writing, especially the Kanji/Chinese characters are very similar.), I probably won't be able to find out how to do that ^^;.

About the yellow lightning, you are true about this. I usually fix the yellow-ness with Photoshop by using the color balance and lower the yellow amount. But I think it became yellow again because I put other filters hahaha.

Thank you anyways!

[cirquemom]

Generally the settings for those things are little icons that are pretty universal. If I could hold the camera in my hands I could probably find it. If you can figure out where the menu button is, you may be able to discover where the light setting is. Likely the symbols for the lighting choices will be the same as on any camera- a little sun icon for bright outdoor light, a cloud for overcast, light bulb for incandescent light and a bar for florescent light. I am so bad with technical stuff that mine might as well be written in Chinese- but I have at least figured out how to get the settings I want. What kind of camera is it?

[Aoibara]

Generally the settings for those things are little icons that are pretty universal. If I could hold the camera in my hands I could probably find it. If you can figure out where the menu button is, you may be able to discover where the light setting is. Likely the symbols for the lighting choices will be the same as on any camera- a little sun icon for bright outdoor light, a cloud for overcast, light bulb for incandescent light and a bar for florescent light. I am so bad with technical stuff that mine might as well be written in Chinese- but I have at least figured out how to get the settings I want. What kind of camera is it?

In my photography class, I finally got to know where that thing is, and I just got that camera set to English. Phew!

Can this help? The model is a Sony DSC-HX200V

Thank you so much!

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

You can adjust the lighting settings (white balance) by following the instructions here - the One push setting could be useful if none of the other settings are giving you quite the right result - you do need a sheet of white paper (or something else plain white) to hand though!

I'd also suggest downloading the manual for it too and having a read - they can be found here(there's a drop down to let you filter by language) - that should tell you how to adjust aperture and shutter settings and other useful things.

[Aoibara]

You can adjust the lighting settings (white balance) by following the instructions here - the One push setting could be useful if none of the other settings are giving you quite the right result - you do need a sheet of white paper (or something else plain white) to hand though!

I'd also suggest downloading the manual for it too and having a read - they can be found here(there's a drop down to let you filter by language) - that should tell you how to adjust aperture and shutter settings and other useful things.

Sorry for the late reply.

Oh my, thank you so much for leaving the manuals and instructions for me! I will bookmark and download these for future reference.

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

You're very welcome