Greetings Board!
I hope you don’t mind my wading in here with my (gulp!) digital photography stuff. I lost my last real camera in a backwater of the Little Indian Sioux a two years ago and before I could replace it I was tempted and hooked by the digital technology. Although the quality of pictures and capabilities of my first digital could hardly compare to that of the old Pentax SLR, when I lost the digital (to the same river) I sorely missed it and knew that I would not likely be going back to film. Now I have two cameras; one that I mostly use and one that I like to keep safely tucked away in a waterproof case when I’m not on solid dry ground. Here’s a picture I shot in October 02 on the portage into Lower Pauness Lake. One nice thing about digitals is that you can use trial and error methods with immediate analysis in the field. In this case the first shot was unsatisfactory because I had disabled the flash to save batteries. The canoe appeared in deep shadow. Then I set for forced flash, raised the canoe out of view, half-pressed for exposure on the distant landscape, trimmed the canoe again, and finished the shot. Then the sunlight got brighter so I searched through my still unfamiliar menus to reset the white balance from overcast to sunny and repeated the exposure routine and took the shot again. I added the final touch a few moments ago using The fill flash tool in Adobe Photoshop Elements to slightly brighten the in the foreground.
Dennis
