I saw an interesting thing on Youtube where a odd number of elements in a photo created a point of interest combined with a shallow depth of field. you have produced a very nice shot.
Thank you, Craig. Yes, I have often read that odd numbers of subjects make for more interesting images. I also found out something about the 20D that I was not expecting. This is the first camera I have owned that has subject icons on the mode dial. I was taking photos of flowers so I set it to the flower icon. I always have all my cameras set to shoot RAW+JPG but when I loaded the images to my computer I found that there were only JPGs. After reading the manual again, I found that RAW+JPG is only available in the Creative modes but not in Basic modes. So, if I am using a Basic mode I am not supposed to want or need a RAW file? Oh well, that's the last time I will do that!
My 10D is described as a semi-pro camera in the literature that I have read. So I wonder if it is the same for it and other brands. I will have to have a look as I lend it to my photography students but I generally have them shoot in RAW so they have to go through the processing of the image.
Yup they marketed the 10/20/30 etc as a semi pro camera when they came out as a nice middle ground between the entry level 300D rebel and the professional 1D lines. The lines have slowly gotten very blurry over the years with several partial steps between being added. Seem they changed the dial and menus later on and merged the images zone options into one button called Special Scene Mode, but looks like still limited raw availability in those automatic zone modes Having never used those modes, I never noticed this with mine over the years. While it may have been a bit presumptuous of them, I think the concept canon was going with is pretty simple, those people that shoot those modes and let the camera use settings based on them aren't the type to want to control the scene or make adjustments in post processing on a raw file. So it probably came down to them saving camera processing power by not writing both image types.
I just checked the manual for the 10D and it is the same as the 20D. If you choose one of the Scene modes then you cannot select RAW.
I think Canon wasn't that far off in setting the camera up that way, I teach a class of over 70 year-olds and one is 90 this year, they all used auto and jpeg. Not one of them knew anything about a raw file and how to process it. I have slowly got them into using Manual and AV except one die-hard but I am slowly converting him over to other settings. I must also mention in a hushed tone, he is a (that company that starts with N) user.
