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DevilC location: Washington, District of Corruption Gender: Male I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their views. \| \|	Take Award Winning Pictures With Point and Shoot Cameras! < on 8/3/2006 7:12 PM >

	-Don't despair that your shoes cost more than your camera. -See this article about Alex Majoli, an award winning photojournalist who only shoots with P&S cameras. -His reasons for preferring them are very similar to reasons why UE enthusiasts can find them such useful tools (vice large and expensive DSLRs) -See the Article here: http://www.robgalb...sp?cid=7-6468-7844 -Here are couple of his pictures: Science flies you to the Moon. Religion flies you into tall buildings.

Zoltar location: NEPA Gender: Female Fresh as Lettuce \| \| \|	Re: Take Award Winning Pictures With Point and Shoot Cameras! <Reply # 1 on 8/3/2006 9:38 PM >

	Neat article. I should try developing some of the techniques he uses, since all I ever use is a digital point-and-shoot camera. I haven't lost my mind. It's backed up on disk somewhere.

heinrick location: Cascadia Gender: Male \| \|	Re: Take Award Winning Pictures With Point and Shoot Cameras! <Reply # 2 on 8/3/2006 9:50 PM >

	Thanks for sharing this great article. I've used some of those techniques with my little digital before due to similar limitations, and yeah, the results can astound. His extended portfolio is really quite amazing. http://www.flickr.com/photos/heinrick05/

blackhawk This member has been banned. See the banlist for more information. location: Mission Control UER newbie \| \|	Re: Take Award Winning Pictures With Point and Shoot Cameras! <Reply # 3 on 8/3/2006 9:58 PM >

	The Olympus C-8080 is no dinky point and shoot. In it's day this 8 megapixel went for close $800 dollars. For action shots, and lower light levels it's performance is not so great. Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.

tron_2.0 location: Ohio Gender: Male \| \| \|	Re: Take Award Winning Pictures With Point and Shoot Cameras! <Reply # 4 on 8/4/2006 12:23 AM >

	very interesting. [quote][i]Posted by yokes[/i] I find your lack of coziness.... disturbing. [/quote]

Explorer Zero \| \|	Re: Take Award Winning Pictures With Point and Shoot Cameras! <Reply # 5 on 8/4/2006 12:30 AM >

	the subjects make those shots great not the camera

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Re: Take Award Winning Pictures With Point and Shoot Cameras!
<Reply # 6 on 8/5/2006 7:50 AM >

Posted by 2Xplorations
the subjects make those shots great not the camera

True, but it would be easy to take a bad pic of the same subjects.

"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." -Mark Twain

Apallo location: Nowhere Interesting Gender: Male \| \| \| \|	Re: Take Award Winning Pictures With Point and Shoot Cameras! <Reply # 7 on 9/6/2006 3:11 AM >

	I happen to be the proud owner of an Olympus C-8080, and lemme tell ya, it's more than just a dinky point and shooter. This thing is an 8MP picture taking machine! It's low-light performance is a little lacking, but that can be made up for with longer exposure times (up to 15 seconds programmable, indefinitely with the remote). I have taken pictures of the stars with this thing. It's kinda bulky to be taking on UE trips though. It's considered an "advanced" camera, as opposed to a basic one i suppose. And this camera actually listed closer to $1000, not 800. Seen much, done so little.

Reciprocity Failure location: Santa Barbara/Chicago Gender: Male See you on the dark side of the Moon \| \|	Re: Take Award Winning Pictures With Point and Shoot Cameras! <Reply # 8 on 9/8/2006 5:22 AM >

	Great read, thanks for posting. Changes my opinion of Point & Shoots a great deal. You still won't catch me in the studio with one, but I might pull mine out and give it another chance to prove itself. It's nice to have something that doesn't require effort to take everywhere. "It only takes one tree to make a thousand matches, it only takes one match to burn a thousand trees."

Axle location: Milton, ON Gender: Male Sieg oder Tod \|	Re: Take Award Winning Pictures With Point and Shoot Cameras! <Reply # 9 on 9/8/2006 8:23 PM >

	Once again proves that it's not the camera it's the person operating it that makes the photo. You can have top of the line equipment and still take crap photos. Great article Celer at Audax Para la Victoria Siempre Alemanes!

DevilC location: Washington, District of Corruption Gender: Male I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their views. \| \|	Re: Take Award Winning Pictures With Point and Shoot Cameras! <Reply # 10 on 9/8/2006 11:19 PM >

	No joke, eh? Browse through Flickr and you will see exactly what you just described! There is a LOT of high-end gear taking a LOT of crappy and poorly composed macro shots of flowers and WAYYYYY too many sunsets shot @ ISO 400. Glad you found it useful. Science flies you to the Moon. Religion flies you into tall buildings.

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Re: Take Award Winning Pictures With Point and Shoot Cameras!
<Reply # 11 on 9/9/2006 12:24 AM >

Posted by DevilC
No joke, eh?
Browse through Flickr and you will see exactly what you just described!
There is a LOT of high-end gear taking a LOT of crappy and poorly composed macro shots of flowers and WAYYYYY too many sunsets shot @ ISO 400.

Glad you found it useful.

This is true, but taking bad shots and seeing what you did wrong is how you learn. Full manual mode is a lot of fun, instructive, and the only way to capture quit a few shots. I've been playing with this more lately. There's always "green mode" on Canon's D-SLR's if you get desperate!

Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.

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