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How to shoot low contrast subject- white flowers

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Submitted by vishnu.agnihotri on Sun, 05/02/2012 - 06:02

I am fairly new to serious photography. On a recent hike, I tried to take a photo of these beautiful white flowers (which were about 15 ft away from me) with my HS10, but I just couldnt get the flowers in focus. I think this happens when the object is very low contrast and the camera cant figure out what object to focus on. Is there some technique to focus on such objects?

Thanks

Vishnu

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Submitted by Gwalion
Date Sun, 05/02/2012 - 07:16
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Try setting the camera to centre weighted focus, this will make it focus on what is in the centre of the frame - the camera instruction manual will direct you tow to set it... 

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Submitted by Vivien L
Date Sun, 05/02/2012 - 08:12
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Set the centre focus as Paul (Gwallion) has suggested, then, using the electronic viewfinder rather than the camera screen, try placing the litte focusing cross that you'll see in the centre of the viewfinder on part of the yellow centre of the flower and part on the white of the petals, this way it has a contrast on which to focus.

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Submitted by vishnu.agnihotri
Date Sun, 05/02/2012 - 10:05
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Thanks for the tips Gwalion and Vivien! I will try this out.

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Submitted by mike_k
Date Sun, 05/02/2012 - 12:25
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Also, focusing on the edge of the petals sometimes gives enough contrast for the autofocus to work, hold the shutter button half way down to hold the focus and centre on the flowers again.

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Submitted by Ray Fothergill
Date Sun, 05/02/2012 - 13:45
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I'm with  Mike on this one as bridge cameras at that range have quite a bit of dof. ( depth of field or how much is in focus from back to front of image ).

Bridge cameras rely on distinct boundaries of light and shade for their auto focus systems . 

A strong vertical difference will also work better than a strong horizontal unless you are taking the picture in portrait mode ( turned 90 degrees from landscape  ) . This is because most bridge cameras don't have cross hair type focusing sensors that measure both planes , and nature tends to have more various strong contrasting verticals than horizontals .

This is all mentioned in the pdf manual which is worth reading and memorising , though the examples at first may not make much sense to someone starting out .

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Submitted by attwoodfan
Date Mon, 06/02/2012 - 09:42
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I am fairly new to my HS10 and have had the same problem so thanks for all the tips on here - really useful.