Photos I took at the beach.

[DucoNihilum]

Don't have a canon camera yet, I took these with my point and shoot... But check them out if you'd like

http://flickr.com/photos/duconihilum/199968961/
http://static.flickr.com/74/199968961_83fbc4c07f.jpg

http://flickr.com/photos/duconihilum/199968826/
http://static.flickr.com/63/199968826_24f232c68e.jpg

http://flickr.com/photos/duconihilum/199968384/
http://static.flickr.com/58/199968384_d10ebca74f.jpg

http://flickr.com/photos/duconihilum/199965988/
http://static.flickr.com/57/199965988_306c7b2139.jpg

http://flickr.com/photos/duconihilum/195789130/
http://static.flickr.com/68/195789130_0199036dbd.jpg

http://flickr.com/photos/duconihilum/195786157/
http://static.flickr.com/77/195786157_4e41f96303.jpg

http://flickr.com/photos/duconihilum/195786332/
http://static.flickr.com/74/195786332_fc4edb9bb3.jpg

Please let me know what you think. Negative/Positive comments appreciated.

[Wazza]

Being a point and shoot, the only thing I can offer is keeping the horizons level. Unless they're purposely off for an artsy type.

With a future Canon SLR, you can look at controlling the depth of field - give a wider aperture, (a lower F value number), such as F4, F2.8, F1.8 which will isolate the subject more, and make the background blur out a bit.

Beaches at summer are always fun. :)

[DucoNihilum]

I had and used manual control over it the whole time, but it was VERY limited...

Anything over an ISO of 200 got INCREDIBLY grainy

Shudder is from 30 seconds- 1/1000

aperture is 2.8-8.0

I was using 2.8 the whole time, but there isn't much control over the DOF unless you are in macro mode.

[catsith]

what sort of p and s do u have? can you change the av on it? The photos look overexposed, and you need to watch the horizon (i did all this to start with, and sometimes my horizons are still crooked, but lucky i can fix that in cs2) It looks like a great place to spend the day or holiday, i love sand and surt. a tip i read somewhere, not sure if it would work, is to put your sunnies in front of the lens, when shooting in these conditions, to help bring out the colours of the sky and water. does your camera have an adaptor, because then you could put on a polarisor filter. Or does your camera have a scenes button, so that you can select beach? It is amazing what little p and s cameras can do, so re read your manual, keep experimenting.

[DucoNihilum]

There is a beach mode, but I don't usually use it. I can change the WB, ap, and shudder speed.

[catsith]

Anything over an ISO of 200 got INCREDIBLY grainy

same with mine, i usually only shoot at 50, especially during the day, sometimes at night i bump it up a bit if it is hunting for light. My little p and s has much the same limitations as yours, but it still is a great little camera. My suggestion is to sit with the camera, and pick a subject to shoot, and then try changing shutter speed to see how that affects your subject, then try changing aperture, etc, and soon (or in my case, a while), you will see the relation these have with each other regarding exposure etc.

[HrcRacing]

I think the shot of the young man playing in the sand is very nice. The others with people in them, well, I'm generally not a fan of those types of pictures (does that make me anti-social? ;) :D ). I would rather see the ocean, the wet sand on the beach, etc, without people distracting from the image.
Definitely be mindful of your horizons. It's an easy enough fix in post processing but you loose part of your shot (perhaps a lot of it).

[DucoNihilum]

I actually have some photos of the ocean, etc on my flickr site, I just didn't post them because they didn't seem very interesting. Here's the page...

http://flickr.com/photos/duconihilum/

[HrcRacing]

PICT 4718 & 4721 are, to me, worthy of being posted for sure. Nice composition on both and the sky is very dynamic. I would have loved to seen those two in color.
It seems your shots (those above included) are suffering from a fair amount of digital noise. You might want to download the demo of Neat Image and give that a try. Unless you purchase it, it will only work on images up to 1024x1024 pixels but, since the limit on this forum is 800x800 pixels, it'll work just fine for you.
I think that digital noise is pretty common in P&S cameras. Regardless, here is the link and best of luck. :grin: http://www.neatimage.com/download.html