Camera comparison.

[ausf]

After setting up the booth, I decided to mess around with the cameras. I took my very old Canon 300D and my newish T3.

Both on full auto, both at the same spot, same subject, same lighting, I just changed the lens between bodies so they are exactly the same.

I copied the 300D file onto the T3 photo. It's much smaller, but in my opinion a much better photo. It's at least 15 years old with according to the count, nearly 10,000 photos taken.

The T3 is taking a nice photo, look at the dust it picked up between the eye and the ear, but it's too good, not as warm of as accurate in color as the 300D.

No retouching or resizing, these are the raw shots. I think I'll keep my old one around for figures at least.

 

[moon puppy]

I'm reduced to only my camera on the phone lately, the old Fuji battery door broke. I bet like all cameras you can mess around with the settings and get the same results, but I do like the old shot better.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

You have to play and experiment with taking the photos. I usually take 2 or 3 shots of a view "just to make sure" that I have a crisp non blurry photo. As my little cams are point and shoot Nikons it is best to take several pics of a particular view.

I use 2 Nikons, and L24 which is a 14 megapixel, and an L30 which is a 20 megapixel. In addition I built a "sleeve" that the L24 will slide into. It has a dark acrylic piece over the flash to dim it slightly when taking close up photos. There is also an old watchmaker loupe lens added so I can get real close - close ups.

Even more important than the cameras is the software I use to create my posts. Crop, change the resolution, change brightness and contrast as well as add effects and other goodies. A crisp but otherwise so-so photo can be really tweaked up with a little help from the software.

Looking at the photos, the bust has a bit of a yellow look to it, possibly from the blue background. You might need more light on the subject or if you used an incandescent bulb, it could be the light gave it the slight yellow tinge. The camera settings usually have a place where you can choose what your light source is. This can do some color correction. Any more I use white LED desk type lamps and a big old fluorescent drafting light.

Bob, my old L24 also had some problems with the battery door. This was caused by the inner battery terminals having way way too much spring to them. I managed to bend those terminals where they have about 1mm of travel to close the door instead of 5+mm. This reduced the stress on the plastic door. I was then able to repair the door. I also did the modification to the L30 Nikon so it's door wouldn't break apart. The designers were members of the "I D ten T" (id10t) crowd. :smack

Keep practicing Jeff, your photos are crisp and clear, you just need to work on your lighting a little bit I think.

As to the bust of Karl, Wow!