Sour+Apples+(Stacy+Streett)

**Digital Camera Exploration**
I have a Nikon Coolpix S200. I love this little camera because it's easy to carry in a pocket and there is no lag time between pressing the button and the actual picture. My Coolpix 5000 was too cluncky to carry in ski pants and I missed most of my pictures because of the lag time. Anyway, this camera has several Scene menu selections like: Portrait, Landscape, Sports, Night Portrait, Party/indoor, Beach/Snow, Sunset, Dusk/dawn, Night landscape, Close up, Museum, Fireworks show, Back light & Panorama assist.

Here is a picture of an apple that I took on Close up scene selection:



Here is a picture of an apple on Museum scene selection from a different perspective, distance and lighting:



Here is a picture of the same apple from a slightly different perspective the portrait scene selection



I don't like the night settings because it's hard to hold the camera still enough. These settings are best used with a tripod. A friend gave me a Gorillapod. It's a flexible tripod you can attach to just about anything to take timed or stable pictures. There is a BSS (Best Shot Selector, Either I wasn't using it correctly or it doesn't help that much.

It's also fun to play with the lighting (although you usually don't have that much control). My personal favorite is the Backlight scene setting. It sends out a flash so faces aren't dark.

Digital Photo Editing