3 Goats & 1 Amateur

**AZinOH** · 12-30-2007, 05:21 PM

This is my first post, and my first digital camera (Olympus FE-280). I'm posting these not because I'm looking for a critique of composition, but to get an opinion as to whether or not the image quality is good-bad-indifferent for a camera of this type. Other than using Irfanview to resize them, I've done nothing to alter them. Any comments on which camera settings would improve image quality would be appreciated. Thanks.

**Frog** · 12-30-2007, 05:59 PM

The exposure is best in the last two. You either widened your apperture, did a longer exposure or both.

**CLKunst** · 12-30-2007, 07:18 PM

Welcome to the Forum AZinOH.

I think of the five you have shown us the third and fourth are my better. The others all show too much and it's hard to make out that the animals are goats. My favorite is the fourth, all of the goats are oriented in the same position by size. That's a good start. The important thing to remember when you are starting out is to keep practicing and don't get discouraged. Think about what you really want to show someone about a picture and make that prominent. This leaves little guess work about what you want the viewer to see plus it reduces distracting elements to the photo such as the road in the foreground.

Regards,

**opus** · 12-30-2007, 09:38 PM

well I notice that your lighting that day was very flat, so you're not going to get very good pictures from any camera under that sky. I tried zooming in to look for noise, but apparently your resizing program brought the resolution down to where the size on screen is about the biggest possible. So I can't look for noise. I'm going to assume that the pixelation is not in the original. Trees are a bit dark, but that's possibly because of the brightness of the overcast sky, the camera was trying to pick the best exposure under the circumstances and got fooled by the sky. Or the setting you used wasn't the best for the circumstances.

It would help to know which setting you used for these pictures, and what others you have available.

**MrEastSide** · 12-30-2007, 11:14 PM

Not bad pictures by any means. They seem a little blurry to me. But, like others have said it doesn't appear you had the best light. There is also that fence in front of the animals. The camera may have been having trouble knowing what to focus on. That is a decent camera too. We sell a lot of that model at my store. People seem to really like it. I'd recommend getting out there on a very nice day with some good sunlight and taking some shots.