In January, Leica hosted a workshop at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens for owners of the company’s compact camera systems. I took my V-Lux 20 for a refresher course on all its functions and buttons.
Aside from giving tips on how to maximize the features on my camera, the Leica instructors advised us on how to use our “point-and-shoot” cameras to make pictures of the gardens.
- Have a subject, and then give your subject room to move within the frame.
- Get physically close to a subject, instead of relying on the camera’s zoom. Take advantage of the macro setting.
- Light coming from the side reveals texture in a subject.
- Play with the camera’s white balance to change the tone of an image.
- Odd numbers of things = interesting.
The workshop reminded me of how powerful my "little" camera really is, and I think I'll be taking it out of my camera bag more often. I'm particularly encouraged by a "high dynamic" setting I had forgotten, which produces images in high-contrast black-and-white.
Do you shoot with a point-and-shoot camera? What settings do you recommend?
JKay
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