Coral Pic's (learning to use manual focus)

[chris121277]

Originally Posted by ScubaSteve

Those look good, the pink is a little richer. You might be able to knock down the exposure a little bit more. It looks as though you may have found the aperture setting. Getting better, keep experimenting! (though I dig that first candy cane pic up top... snazzy!)

What camera are you using? I might be able to tell you where your aperture adjustment is. Check out this site: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tut...h-of-field.htm
It has a pretty good explaination of DOF and aperture (albeit relatively technical). This will tell you how to get those ridiculously good-lookin' pictures that sphelps does.

My camera isn't super fancy but I think it's pretty decent for not being an SLR, it an Olympus SP-57OUZ.

[chris121277]

what do you think?.....is this still over exposed? I was trying to focu farther up to give it a wider Depth of field

[ScubaSteve]

Man, you're kicking my camera's ass. You've got the right idea. It still looks a little washed out (over-exposed) but you're close. If you are finding it hard to reduce the exposure with your camera more you can always try post-processing with Photoshop or GIMP to bring the exposure down a bit and boost the colours a titch.