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Whenever Wally takes my picture I look like a manatee. Or as Marco said, ready for rehab. It's been a little hard on my self esteem.
So it was great to learn from Monika Olsen in our digital photography class (at Acalanes Adult Education) why I look like a manatee - and that it's an artifact of the camera, not a personal failing, or a reason to schedule plastic surgery.
This is Carolyn's deliciously steaming fish without the zoom, just getting close with the camera.
Note the fish-eye effect? (pun intended)
Here is the same shot but standing back a little and using the zoom:
Magic! And the manatee face explained.
We learned a lot of other stuff too - mostly what I learned is except for the zoom there is nothing a point-and-shoot camera can do that the iphone can't do better.
So I am now the proud owner of a Nikon P530 with a 42x optical zoom. Oh and I also learned to turn off the digital zoom. It does nothing that you can't do better on your computer later.
I chose the Nikon because it's light and relatively small. Will my photos improve? Stay tuned.
So it was great to learn from Monika Olsen in our digital photography class (at Acalanes Adult Education) why I look like a manatee - and that it's an artifact of the camera, not a personal failing, or a reason to schedule plastic surgery.
This is Carolyn's deliciously steaming fish without the zoom, just getting close with the camera.
Here is the same shot but standing back a little and using the zoom:
We learned a lot of other stuff too - mostly what I learned is except for the zoom there is nothing a point-and-shoot camera can do that the iphone can't do better.
So I am now the proud owner of a Nikon P530 with a 42x optical zoom. Oh and I also learned to turn off the digital zoom. It does nothing that you can't do better on your computer later.
I chose the Nikon because it's light and relatively small. Will my photos improve? Stay tuned.
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