the best way to get up close and personal is to set the camera to macro mode and get up close and personal for the shot. In macro mode you can shoot as close as a few inches or closer depending on your camera. As a general rule , if you are shooting in macro mode you must zoom all the way out to focus. The flash is also a bad idea when you are that close as it will overexpose your photo unless you have some sort of filter to absorb the reflection (circular polarizer). Your best bet is to get some sort of lighting , use your cameras preset or manual white balace to adjust for the unatural light , throw the camera into macro mode and shoot nice and close... even better is natural daylight on a overcast or cloudy day. It's important to keep the camera very very still while shooting macros or your photos will be blurry , so I'de also use a tripod, or be cheap like me and just rest the camera against something. Good luck !

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• Any photo-taking advice for a novice? - SnakesRCharming, Mon Nov 22 12:11:57 2004
• my best advice would be .... - koky6869, Mon Nov 22 18:00:17 2004
• RE: Any photo-taking advice for a novice? - beastie, Mon Nov 22 20:16:13 2004
• not sure about your camera, but with the ones I have used - CE, Tue Nov 23 07:51:43 2004