About the Image(s)

"I took this photo with a Panasonic Lumix Point and Shoot. F/4.9, 1/80 second, ISO 500, 12mm. It is pure coincidence that Angela and I both chose to reflect red/orange subjects with black backgrounds. I needed to do a lot of post editing on this one. I took this in the main bathroom in my house. I placed the baseball on the top of a wine class in front of the mirror above the vanity and placed a makeup mirror behind the baseball and a bit to the side. In post processing I used Lightroom to highlight the background and brought out the blacks 50% and darkened the exposure about 50%. This made the background completely black. I then used AI in Photoshop Express to remove the wine glass from the reflections, and the frame of the makeup mirror.

You can get more information about the camera from the following link Panasonic - DC-ZS80. I wanted something that would be easier to take on ski vacations. After some research I chose this camera, and found it used, but in great shape, at a local camera shop. What I learned is that there is very little point and shoot about a point and shoot camera. Pretty much just the focusing is out of your control. You sacrifice quality on the lens, and I would not zoom in too much, but you can set f-stop, shutter speed and ISO. You can also set to fully automatic, fully manual, shutter priority or aperture priority. You can also do some bracketing. It saves the photos at 20MB. There are also other features. I used the baseball as practice to learn the camera."