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RE: Please Help Me Identify these Toys! - 7/12/2008 9:42:18 PM
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BeckeyZ
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what kind of camera do you have? (model so I can google it please...then I can tell you what you need to do to clear up your pics) Sarah, I have a Canon PowerShot A720 IS.
Set your mode dial to SCN and try using the 'foliage' setting.....see if that helps any. See mode settings here.
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RE: Please Help Me Identify these Toys! - 7/13/2008 5:46:29 PM
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Y'all who have given camera-shooting suggestions to me (either here or via PM) . . . THANK YOU very much. 
Beckey, I had tried the foliage option a couple of days ago . . . Not via the SCN; but just by turning the dial to the flower icon . . . When I did that, the automatic flash would, well, flash and the pictures would come out way too bright and "white lighty" (if that makes any sense). To combat that, I was using the AV option (but some of the pictures --the photos of very small toys-- were still coming out a bit blurry).
I will try the SCN / foliage combination tomorrow when I start shooting pictures again.
I have a User Guide for the camera . . . but I really didn't know where to begin with the guide.
. . . that, and I was hoping that someone here would be able to help me. 
And, y'all, thanks also for the great links for the toys; I've bookmarked them for future referral.
I also will probably have some more toys that I'll need y'all's help with in identifying.
As y'all have probably alread guessed, I'm not really up on cartoons and Happy Meals and such. LOL
Sometimes, I don't even know where to begin . . . especially if it's a character that I have absolutely never seen before.
Y'all have been wonderful with your answers and your help; I very much appreciate it!
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RE: Please Help Me Identify these Toys! - 7/14/2008 12:04:32 PM
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With the flash off, you'll need lots of room lighting. Are you using a tripod?
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RE: Please Help Me Identify these Toys! - 7/14/2008 12:13:59 PM
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Shar-Mar ... there's a button on the right, a 4-way dial type button. The bottom should be the Macro-flower button. Select that, and then click if you press the up button, you bring up the menu to turn the flash off. That's what I have to do to get close-up shots when I'm using it.
Oh thanks, Christine! I'm getting ready to shoot some more photos . . . patience, KuKu, patience  . . . so I'll try out your suggestions.
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With the flash off, you'll need lots of room lighting. Are you using a tripod?
Ray, I have a portable light studio, that I've been using (thanks to Beckey's suggestion as few months back).
As to the tripod, I have one, but haven't used it yet (I know, I know . . . but I do plan on using it when I start shooting the eBay photos . . . I've currently been using my elbows as the tripod). 
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RE: Please Help Me Identify these Toys! - 7/14/2008 12:18:20 PM
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I've currently been using my elbows as the tripod Which probably acconts for at least some of the blur. No matter how hard you try, you can't keep still enough at slow shutter speeds.
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RE: Please Help Me Identify these Toys! - 7/14/2008 12:29:35 PM
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I've currently been using my elbows as the tripod Which probably acconts for at least some of the blur. No matter how hard you try, you can't keep still enough at slow shutter speeds.
I know. 
I was trying to save some time . . . however, the photos that are blurry, I'm now going to need to re-shoot for when I upload them to eBay . . . which will require even more time.
I'm trying to figure out how to "raise" my light studio. It's currently on my kitchen counter, and with the mini-tripod, I have, it's difficult to get a good camera view of whatever it is I'm shooting. And since I'm on a whine roll, bending over in that position (so I can see the view) hurts my back.
I'm thinking that if the light studio was high enough so that the camera view was eye-level, then that would work better.
OH! I just had an idea that may solve that particular problem! 
Thanks, Bill!
See, I just needed to talk it through with someone.
KuKu, if I had to choose between my being alive versus get good photos, I'll choose my being alive. 
And Christine . . . I don't think passing-out is one of my options neither. I only like to be unconscious when I'm sleeping.
OK, y'all, have lovely days today; I'm off to go shoot photos.
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RE: Please Help Me Identify these Toys! - 7/14/2008 2:03:39 PM
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I think he says, "this means war", but I could be wrong.
And it's "maroon".
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RE: Please Help Me Identify these Toys! - 7/14/2008 2:05:07 PM
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Yes, Bugs really says that.
Gumby and Pokey
No idea who Rudolph's girlfriend is, even though I've seen the show a hundred times. 
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RE: Please Help Me Identify these Toys! - 7/14/2008 2:07:15 PM
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Oh yeah . . . What is Rudolf, the Red-nosed Reindeer's girlfriend's name?
Clarice
Oh yeah, I remember her now.
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Christine 
Not an ideal solution, but if it makes for better pics... 
