Photography question - please help.

[zeegler]

Okay, so I bought a new digital camera. It's a Toshiba 3.2mp with 3X optical zoom. It's an amazing camera. The quality of the pictures is really awesome. That's part of the problem.

I decided it's time to get some good pictures of my guitars, so last night I started with my Aria Pro II because it was close at hand. I took it almost entirely apart, and cleaned and polished everything. It is spotless, and looks gorgeous. So I get out the camera, and take a bunch of pics. The pictures came out great, except now all I can see, all over the guitar, is tiny pieces of lint and crap. You can't see them with the naked eye, but the camera pics them up like you wouldn't believe.

I'm stumped now. I don't have a clue what to do. The guitar is so clean you could eat off it, but these microscopic flecks show up.

Help!!!

[SeventhSon]

Re: Photography question - please help.

The deal is, you're probably looking at the picture at full resolution on your monitor. Realistically for ebay or for posting, you're going to size the picture down considerably and those small imperfections will just go away. Your toshiba software should allow you to resize it for the appropriate audience.

If you do intend to display your pictures at full resolution, then your Toshiba should have come with some basic photo editing software....like the stuff that takes red eye out. In these photo editing software, there is a "blend" feature that allows you to make an area blend with its surroundings.

If you don't have photo editing software, here are some decent ones:

iPhoto for Mac
Microsoft Digital Image Suite
Adobe PhotoShop Elements

[Madness]

Re: Photography question - please help.

Are you using your flash?

[yabba]

Re: Photography question - please help.

what Madness said, are you using the flash? avoiding seeing those little bits of dust, etc is all about the right lighting. I generally find the best results to be from plenty of natural light (ie daylight, can't really do it at night) and no flash.

[SEEGERMANY]

Re: Photography question - please help.

Just have your wife dust.

[zeegler]

Re: Photography question - please help.

yes, I was using flash. Maybe that's the problem. I'll try again on the weekend with natural lighting, ans see how that goes.

[Number Of The Priest]

Re: Photography question - please help.

Stupid dust. I cleaned my Shannon before its major photosession, and look!



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No flash there either. Just a closeup photo with my tripod to steady the shot.

[tigertailz]

Re: Photography question - please help.

how much did the Toshiba cost sounds alot

[ROCKPRO]

Re: Photography question - please help.

You need an AIR-Blaster/Duster.

[ROCKPRO]

Re: Photography question - please help.

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Just have your wife dust.

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