Viewing post #717134 by evermorelawnless

dirtdorphins said:I will answer--because I asked about it too--
everything on auto
literally means everything!
auto focus on the camera, set in the center, pointed to something in the center, looked thru the view finder to see if it seemed to be focused and clicked the button, seriously!
then batch cropped all the pictures to the center 1000 x 1000 pixels

please correct me if I got it wrong...

Yep. Except it was 1000 x 800 pixels (blindly batch cropped).

Also important that apart from the crop, I didn't do any post-processing. What you're seeing is exactly what the camera spit out. Was really important to me to go 100pct auto/pointandshoot/nothing technical/nothing tricky for this demonstration. To point out that there does not need to be a "barrier to entry" when it comes to close-ups.

This thread isn't at all about the shots in it - but more about the potential of catching shots using this simple technique (and quickly...without much $$ or time invested).