Hey, I'm new to Cameras and Photography!

[grike mammoth]

I'm new to Photography, and I own a Canon Powershot S500 Digital Camera, what are all of your opinions on this cam? Also, how do people get this color in their shots:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v440/LutherLewis/arbutusblur.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v14/harmonof/europe189.jpg

http://www.malnourishedism.com/pics/new/buffed.jpg

http://www.malnourishedism.com/pics/new/thetrash.jpg

If you kind of get what I mean, they all have like a goldish tint to them.. I want to know how to get that color in my Photographs. Also, can someone reccomend me a good non-digital camera, I want to get into using film cameras. I've been into Photography a while but now I have a job and I can buy a camera and whatnot. Thanks for the help!

[Drgisking]

Hey man im new too, but that looks like natural light ot me


Basiclly not using flash, but make sure you have a tripod becuase the exposure will be very long.

otherwise it will be blurry.

[robertwgross]

That looks like a white balance problem in several night examples.

A warm orange glow is generally from a tungsten lamp.
A yellow glow is generally from a sodium vapor street lamp.
A sickly green-yellow glow is generally from a mercury vapor street lamp.

With a film camera, you need to have the correct specific film for that kind of light, or else you have to use a filter, otherwise you get these funny color shifts.

With a digital camera, you can set the camera to auto white balance and hope that it figures it out. It may not, so setting a custom white balance is more foolproof for getting the whites white.

With a digital camera, you can exaggerate this if you want, for the odd effect. That involves setting up a wrong custom white balance so that the camera over-compensates.

---Bob Gross---

[grike mammoth]

Thanks Rob!