When Good Cameras Go Bad

My new camera, a Canon Digital Rebel T3, is the best camera I've ever worked with, which is to say that I don't have to have a brain to produce a good photo, but like someone with no brain, I'm constantly asking it to do things even the Hasselblad that Neil Armstrong left on the moon couldn't do.

Like taking unmetred (unanythinged) shots in a dim restaurant with no flash and expecting them to turn out okay.

Luckily, that's when Photoshop steps up to the plate! I really, really don't know what photographers did before Photoshop. The first time I used it was in 1989. I actually had to up the memory of my old Macintosh Plus to 4 MB (4 MB! It cost about $300!) just in order to run it. But what a friend it is.

I mean, what would you do with the photo I took last night of Tai-chan in a Greek restaurant? Taken up the bouzouki? Not necessary! After fiddling with about 55 parameters I managed to get it into a semblance of normality . . . nowhere close to good, mind you, acceptable. What think you?

How'd do you like that Christmas glow?

A miracle, neh? Such a good-looking subject doesn't hurt