Thanks Seanny, I have had a read through the above.
My main problem seems to be with the lighting side of things, my pics are always to bright and also if I try to zoom in on say 1 nail it goes all blurry and you can't see any detail whatsoever.
I have got a Canon Digital IXUS 50 is that a good one?? It cost enough!!
Teri x:hug:
Teri, you can relax and at the same time save yourself a couple of hundred quid cos your camera is more than capable of taking high quality close-ups.
Here's the proof. I've taken the following shots with Jackie's camera, its a Canon IXUS 40 (slightly older than yours). I've taken two pics of a mobile phone sitting on out kitchen counter at 11.20PM, hardly an ideal time for taking pics, I'm sure you'll agree.
Here's the first pic, taken with Macro enabled, flash OFF, about 3 inches away from phone, no white balance set.
Not too bad, eh? Its simple to improve on this though. In the second photo, I've set the White Balance to 'Auto' which incidentally seems to be very efficient on this model of Canon camera. Here's the 2nd photo:
Notice the difference? The second pic looks exactly as it did when I took the photo. Again, macro is enabled, flash is OFF, camera about 3 inches away from phone, but this time White Balance is set to Auto.
To set the white balance to auto, make sure the camera is in 'camera' mode (not movie or playback mode) then press the center button in the middle of the circular button at the rear - then scroll down on left hand side to AWB and make sure its set at auto. Nothing more complicated than that.
The photos above are both cropped so that we're not using too many resources here in Geek. If anyone wants to see the full size pic (Its pretty big) you can view it by clicking on the link below. Dont forget, your browser may reduce it in size so that you can see the full thing, click on it again with your magnifying glass cursor.
Becca-Boo, the gallery is already up and running and available to view over at
The Toenail Art Gallery