I recently got a new point and shoot camera, the Canon s95. I took it on a trip to San Jose last weekend and enjoyed myself. There’s no effort or thought or care in the photos that I take with it. It’s the perfect vacation/party camera. I don’t want to have to think about photography when I’m on “me time” but a large part of me still wants to take pictures. I need to enjoy my surroundings and companions and this camera has helped with that. There’s nothing casual about my work cameras. They’re large and can make people uncomfortable. Also, I only shoot manual, which is a task that occupies a significant part of my brain power. Having a tiny but powerful point and shoot camera set to the program function is freedom.
On the flight back from San Jose, it proved to be a lovely little distraction as I took pictures out the window the entire hour we hurtled through the air down the state of California. I saw farmland and mountains and a completely circular rainbow. Once we got to LA, I was delighted to discover that I recognized most of LA from the air, large and small landmarks alike.
The image quality is a little rough on this one- the rainbow was very faint and I had to play with the curves to get it to pop a little.
Smog.
These are really beautiful! Such great light.
Melissa these are so cool! I really like the coastline shot and your closer. Nice approach!
Daniel
Thanks, guys 🙂
I love these. I think you may have just sold me on the s95. I’ve been resorting to old film cameras for low stress vacation work but without being able to review I think the tension is still there. I’ve been wanting to find a point and shoot that frees me. My brother has one of these, I think I might experiment with it a little when I got home and see him.
Shot with an s95? Awesome. Some of them almost look like a tilt shift shot. Very nice.
That’s awkward, my name is Melissa too, i do Photography too, I have a blog too and it’s named Up in the air 😀
Nice shots by the way ;D