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Color Effects Option: B&W
Canon PowerShot S30
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Here we are in week 6, and the rain is falling in Tennessee. Lots
of rain and grey skies! I have been shuffling around wishing for
more natural light and decided to head over to my camera manual
and check the info on color effects in preparation for the lesson.
Here are a few quotes from the manual
The color effects available on the Canon S30 are as
follows:
| Vivid |
Emphasizes the contrast and color saturation to record a bold
color. |
| Neutral |
Tones down the contrast and color saturation to record neutral
hues. |
| Sepia |
Records in sepia tones. |
| B&W |
Records in black and white. |
- Shooting procedures are the same as for the Auto Mode.
- If you press SET after shooting, the Setup Menu will appear
and allow you to change the setting again.
- The AEB, AE lock, FE lock, light metering, file RAW format,
and image adjustments (ISO, speed, sharpness, and saturation)
settings cannot be adjusted in this mode.
- The white balance cannot be set when sepia or B&W mode is
selected.
- You cannot change the macro mode setting while the Color Effect
Setup menu is displayed.
- The AF frame is set to the auto (AiAf) selection when shooting
with the color effect.
Hummm, looks like there are a lot of features you cannot use in
these modes. Close to enough to make it rather worthless in my opinion.
More or less stuck in auto. I have a feeling that if you are attempting
black & white shots you are better off to shoot in color which
leaves you the freedom to make adjustment to create more dramatic
lighting and generally give you more control over the camera, then
take the image to greyscale in you graphics editing program.
One thing I think this may be useful for is, if you are planning
to go black and white, sepia, etc. in a shot, you can flip over
here and get an idea how a shot needs to be adjusted to allow for
the different effects of shadows and such between monotone photos
and full color. Also seems to me that a wise person once told me
that you can take a color photo to black and white, but not vice
versa....without hand tinting and lots of painstaking work that
is. [wink]
Let's give this little feature a whirl and see how it does. Always
good to have an idea what's available. Never know when you will
need or want it.
Update: You can fiddle with the white
balance (sorta) and macro mode in b&w mode, just not until you
hit set and the selection bar disappears.
All thumbnail images below are clickable to view larger
images and details
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Thursday, October 10th...rain rain go away. No luck so far in obtaining
the desired sunshine. I dug around the house for some object(s)
to photograph. Set up my poster board on a trunk in front of a bedroom
window that was receiving at least a wee bit of ambient light and
pulled a lamp over next to the poster board. These two shots were
a result of that effort.
Note: I fiddled with the sepia effect on the mask as well. I have
hidden one of the resulting shots behind the black and white version.
Feel free to ignore it, Ron. I was fiddling. lol
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Next I spotted my female wizard puppet sitting on the dresser
next to some crystals. Welllll, actually she was originally
intended to be a likeness of a Nashville local citizen [and
was a fair one at that back when her hair was white many moons
ago], be we decided she needed a wand and was a wizard [wizardess
??] when we first *met* her, so wizard she remains. Everyone
around here has pretty much forgotten the socialite she was
originally fashioned after anyway...haha
She's a tad dark, lighter shots were fuzzier, but that could
be brightened & clarified with enhancements that are not
allowed at this time. ;^)
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Friday, October 11th....well, the rain has let up for the
most part, but it's fairly dismal and drippy out there. But
*just drizzle* is looking pretty good right now. Not much
luck with setting up in bright sun over here. I decided to
try an egg and the white background anyway. Here's what happened.
Not really eggstrodinary.
And then there was this odd cat/mouse candle holder sitting
there that kept saying, "me, me!"...lol, I am getting
cabin fever here, I believe.
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And here's that monk from our patio again,
he's aging nicely due to the moldiness of being quite a few
inches above normal for rain here this year. A bit darker than
last spring, but then, from my funky flash shots back then and
this odd black & white no one could really tell. ;^( |
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Thanks for a great class, Ron. I may try some more experiments
in sunshine and post them on that extras page that I haven't had
time to play with yet this term. Welllll, I did do one naughty manipulation
and post it there. [naughty wink]
Hope to *see* a bunch of you around the halls of LVS in the future.
Til Then,
_^..^_
Farron
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