Fuji S9000 sunset picture

Frost

This was taken tonight about 30 feet from the back door. We live in the country and I wanted to get a good sunset picture with the camera. I am pretty pleased with the tone and all, and did a bit of tweaking in Adobe CS2. I am surprised at the images from this camera considering it is not a Digital SLR.

saurora

Beautiful shot! Fuji has some nice cameras, even the ones that aren't DSL. They have exceptionally good resolution and their skin tones and colors are so gorgeous....just like their film. Just a little different than the Canons and Nikons. I have an older Fuji Finepix 3800 that is only 3.2 megapixels. I have taken some beautiful shots with it, especially of people. My first SLR was a Fuji as well. How do you like your S9000?

Frost

Thank you Saurora. I like the versatility of this camera. I've been shooting it along with a test of a Tamron Zoom lens on a Nikon recently. Both are very good image takers. The Fuji S9000 has a lot of features you don't normally see on point and shooters, such as bracketing, adjustment of +- of EV, Histogram, RAW, 3 different preset shooting modes, (normal, chrome *as in Fujichrome, standard), use of built in flash and external flash, P Program, A Aperture, S shutter priority, M manual, and some of the other "pre-sets" on the main dial. It also has manual focus along with different metering styles for automatic focus. Just to look at some other picture of what the camera does is at this link: http://www.steves-digicams.com/2005_reviews/s9000_samples.html but for the full article it is here: http://www.steves-digicams.com/2005_reviews/s9000.html

I really like the camera, even though it is not a perfect camera. They could have put in a larger sensor, but who knows....that may come in the future.

Highlander

The colours are lovely. Just goes to show that you don't need an expensive camera to capture great images. :

Frost

Thanks Highlander! The camera was shot using a tripod and then I took multiple exposures to get it right. It's difficult to get the highlights right without making the shadow detail of the foreground cornfield go completely black.

Scott_Quier

Frost wrote:

Thanks Highlander! The camera was shot using a tripod and then I took multiple exposures to get it right. It's difficult to get the highlights right without making the shadow detail of the foreground cornfield go completely black.

Here's a thought for you, if you're interested....

Since you took multiple exposures on tripod and are working in CS2, this might have been a really good opportunity to make a composite exposure, allowing for the colors of the upper potion to be more saturated/darker while still getting the detail of the corn field.