Nina,

You are much too modest regarding your skills. How do you set your camera
for the close up shots? Do you use the Auto feature, or one of the many
other less programed settings?

I saw the Custom feature mentioned, but had not yet figured out what it did.
I just discovered the Browse button late yesterday.

Thanks again for your help.

doug bolt
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Nina Baltes wrote:
Douglas Bolt wrote:
Nina,

I need to go back to your web site
(http://www.chaotropic.net/orchids.html) again to develop some
questions for you regarding your photographic techniques. It is
obvious that you know what you are doing.

Hee hee. The truth is, I don't know much about photography at all.
It's my camera that does it (Nikon Coolpix 995). The only 'tricks'
I use are a) to cover a part of the flash for closeups and b)
sometimes using a black piece of cloth as background, with a slit in
it so you can isolate a flower for a picture. And I've found a tripod
to be essential.

I agree with you. Aries is the best I've found. I keep finding more
options as I poke around. I'm still looking for a way to manually
order the presentation of images. I found the pull-down to sort
automatically by filename, title etc, but I have not found a way to
do it manually - not a big deal, but...

You just set it to "custom" and then sort by drag and drop.

Nina

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