The pics are good examples Maryanne. I'd rather have the cheesecake though!

Dave 

LOL....well maybe you can come take photos at my grandson's 2nd birthday party and I will have cheesecake for you!

Maryanne, my guess i that your first shot was p&s, second was dslr?  Just a guess. I will def do this one.  What sort of editing is permited if any?  Some we can, some we can't..., so what's the scoop on this one?

Eric L:

Maryanne, my guess i that your first shot was p&s, second was dslr?  Just a guess. I will def do this one.  What sort of editing is permited if any?  Some we can, some we can't..., so what's the scoop on this one?

Eric, you're right. I believe someone else said it in this post that the color and depth of field gives the p&s away. I believe editing is allowed. I did the same editing on both photos - levels, curves and sharpen. I would think too much editing or editing only one would ruin the whole point of the thread.

Hello all,

I'm a new student, this is my first time posting on this site. I'm still having problem figuring out how to post. here are two pics for the assignment one is with a sony dcs-s60 4.1mp and the other one with a canon 5d. Hope I get an A 

 Phillipe,

Welcome to the board! Good examples of it being the photographer, not the equipment!

Dave

 Eric,

You're allowed to do whatever post processing you like. Try to do pretty much the same steps to both images if you are doing two. 

Dave

I've been reading sharing and critiques for a couple of years, but just found the tutorials!  I'm so excited about the summer school lessons, I've gone back and printed  them all out to study.  I can't believe how generous you all are with your knowledge and experience.  I really must say a big thank you to all you Mpixers!

I'm an amateur, so I'm not saying this is professional level, but the old Canon Powershot G5 (circa 2004-ish?) did all right.  (My 30D should arrive tomorrow...very exciting!)  There was a money shot in this setting somewhere, but heck if I could find it!  I shot in auto and did some cropping and sharpening.  Here goes!

 Welcome Abby!

Pretty photo!

Dave

I'm gonna cheat on this one too, these were both taken before today.  Both with my Canon Powershot A570 IS... a versatile P&S, but a P&S all the same.  Can I admit something... I don't even have a DSLR yet... I'm still saving up.  While I'm saving up, I'm reading and reading and learning and wishing so bad I could practice on it, but I'm broke right now, man.  I think I'm about as amateur as it gets on this board.  Kind of embarassing

All I did on this one was soften the background a bit...

This one obviously I converted a bit.  But that's it.

Laurabelle, you could have told me that that first one had been shot with a canon 1D camera instead of a p&s, and I'd have believed you.  Just goes to show, it's not the camera.

 +1 for what Eric said.

You proved the point Laurabelle!

Dave

  I wish there was a fainting smiley on here - that's about as close as I could get haha.  You guys just made my day, seriously.

Dave! What a great thread!

I just returned from the Dominican Republic where I took tons of pictures and some will suit this assignment (once I sort through all of them. we were there for 8 days). I'm afraid to take my Nikon D50 onto the beach for fear of sand so I take our little $100 P&S for the on-the-beach and in-the-water pics. (It's got an underwater housing on and that was including in the price!) I'll try to post some shots soon!

Let us remember also the point of a point and shoot camera is to have a camera handy.

not to point and shoot a picture but to make an image that is at least the starting point for the final image.

I had my Canon SD1000 in my pocket at dinner last week. My nephews get a bit restless so I took them on a walk while the folks finished dinner in some peace.

these show what you can do with a bit of consideration of the scene

They thought that curb was installed just for their seating pleasure.

I thought "oh cool" for the first shot, then went and sat beside them for the second.

these are the full frames.

I guess my point is, get the picture, but don't forget to make the image.

Try to use your small camera like it was your big camera.

 nice pics drh!

well said too!

Dave

Ok - I know I am late, but my models are not always cooperative!  I am sure you have heard that excuse before, but it was the only one I could come up with.  I did a little bit of pp - I forgot to set the WB with the DSLR but I was shooting in RAW so I fixed that and did a little cropping, but that was basically it.

Camera info -

Nikon D80:
Exposure Mode: Aperture Priority
1/25 sec - F/5.6
Exposure Comp.: 0 EV

Canon PowerShot SD1000: 
Exposure Mode: Portrait
1/60 sec - F/4.5
Exposure Comp.: 0 EV

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 great job plane!

Dave

These were shot back in 2003 with the same camera that was in the article that DaveW mentioned...the Olympus C5050 Zoom.  It was a good camera for the era, but again, the camera is only the tool...not the artist.  All that said, one neat feature of the camera was that it had an f/1.8 lens.  Pretty rare to see that wide of an aperture even now in P&S.  Market has driven longer zoom factor and megapixels...not parameters like wide aperture or lens sharpness that can have a much more tangible impact on the look of an image.

Jim 

 I love the white flowers!

Dave