Bridge Camera - How to get the best shots.

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Hi, With the 'credit crunch' and all, I'm stuck with my Fuji s5700 bridge camera until i can afford to treat myself at Christmas. I'm traveling to London in a few weeks with a close friend of mine (Who is also an aspiring photographic model), She's asked me if I'd take some photo's of her for an online portfolio i promised to put together for her... Do any of you guys have any tips, for taking great 'people shots' with a bridge camera... I'd love a Dslr, But i really can't afford it at this moment.

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Ste
 
Practice, practice and more practice!

While "Bridge" camera's have more control over your normal point and shoots, they're still limited in some ways - you'll learn to work around it and still come out with pretty nice pictures.

I'm sometimes use a Fujifilm s2950 myself.
 
bridge cameras i find lack in the all important manual setting side they happily shoot snaps but lack important features like manual focus etc but dont be afraid to experiment try all the settings the camera has to offer dont think just because it says sport mode you can only shoot moving objects. lots of practice is important.
 
The S5700 has all the same controls as a dSLR Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority, Manual, White Balance, Exposure Compensation and the rest.

The big difference between a bridge camera and a dSLR are shutter speeds, shutter delay and focus speed, which for landscape and portrait will be no handicap at all, the real problems come when shooting faster moving subject.

A quick flickr search for images by an s5700 will find many fine images that you'll not be able to tell if it was a bridge or a top of the range dSLR.

The tips for taking 'people shots' with a bridge are the same as taking with a dSLR, and you should not be too limited at all by your equipment.
 
As long as the people are posed and not moving then agree it won't make much difference, although an often used approach to people shots is to utilise low depth of field to bring the person out from the background more. This is easily done with a large aperture prime on a DSLR but nigh on impossible on a bridge unless you are really close to the person taking a headshot.
 
acetone said:
A quick flickr search for images by an s5700 will find many fine images that you'll not be able to tell if it was a bridge or a top of the range dSLR.
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Not wishing to start an argument but just had a look through a 5700 group and don't agree with that. Yes the images are pretty good but the IQ is just not quite there and doesn't even match an entry DSLR for me.
No reason why it should though and no reason why decent people shots can not be achieved but need to be realistic.
 
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