so you have a digicam and you think you can use it

uh... yeah?
Big question mark on that.
I know for certain that I can not take my own picture with it. I look like I am trying too hard.
The art shots are pretty good in one sense. The warm tone art shoots rather well. Nothing looks washed out by the flash, the detail shows up. Although I didn't take any of the closeups with the macro lens. I thought I had but it turns out that I had not. So those will have to be re shot. I did manage to get the ISO setting figured out tolerably well. That will keep me from overexposing the shots.
The picture that I love the most is the painting I most don't want to sell. It is an acrylic of 3 and a half mangoes. They are rather warm toned while the back ground is a cool wash that looks like they are sitting outside on a ledge near a faded building. They are closeup so the background really is only a suggestion. I love this thing. I did it for some class work. And the best part of finishing the painting was getting to eat the models!
The camera did a fantastic job at reproducing it. Which means to me that I finally figured out how to set the stupid thing to take a great picture. So why, when I look at the Heart Chakra painting do I not see the painting?
I don't know how to describe what is wrong with it. The background is a combination of translucent and opaque greens, the jar is a medium green with some reds and blues in it and the olive toned flower looks washed out. But, it is the only thing that looks like I see it when I look at it in person. It almost seems to me that the light bounced through the translucent layers even with the flash suppression function activated. Talk about FRUSTRATING!!!
if I don't get the hang of this I'll never get photos to ACG for the site.
I didn't mention that ACG was building a website to sell my artwork did I? Oops. ACG is building me a website to sell my artwork that will eventually sell the stamps and etc when there is etc to sell. ACG is totally awesome!!! And he RAWKS!!!
Hhhhmmmm.... maybe the problem with the photos is where I took them. It wasn't exactly natural northern light. But I don't think it was so far off as t o do that to my pretty picture. No way to tell for sure except to reshoot.
And here is where I love the digi cam. I don't have to waste 9 bucks developing a roll of film that will turn out to be crap. I can see my mistake before I have to pay for it and take steps to correct it. Boy.... I sure could use that function on a lot of things in life. :)