Stephanie, I looked back through some of your photos, and I think you have done a great job with your photos. I don't know that anybody could tell if you ahd a P&S. You can have an expensive digital SLR and take bad pictures. There are a lot of people on here that use the P&S and their photos are great. I never owned one, but in the one class I had, the instructor worked with a girl that had a P&S and hew showed her how to manipulate the settings. That's always an option. Take a class and get some tips. others on here can give you some good tips too. But back to your question, your photos are great.
Yes DSLRs are useful for some things... Like my P&S couldn't focus on some of the macros I wanted to get... Neither can my SLR sometimes!
But really I had no idea you were using a P&S! Your photos are fantastic :) I believe I am now following you :)
The camera itself is just a tool - how good the photo is depends on your creativity - and you are living proof!
I have heard and read that it's not the camera but the person behind the camera. You can do fantastic work with a point and shoot and you can do crappy work with a high-priced dslr camera. Start with developing your style and eye then once you become comfortable with that move on to a high-priced camera to cement your style.
I agree that it's the person behind the camera. Someone that I follow on this site and whose photos I really admire shoots with a cell phone. I didn't know that until she mentioned it one day, her photos are so elegant and well composed. Once or twice I noticed a graininess that I thought was deliberate because the effect worked so well with the image. (talk about talent!) It may have been noise that cell phones and PAS cameras are prone to. I shoot with a PAS and my main advice is not to shoot above ISO 400, but the night photo you took recently is wonderful so maybe you already know that.
I also only have P&S and don't have a problem with it. Of course, you can tell with some photos, but someone said the other week they wouldn't have known on one in particular if I hadn't said. :-) That said, I'm saving for an SLR at the moment. I want to be able to change the settings and use the aperture and shutter speed and have a few less constraints imposed by the camera.
Just had a browse through some of yours and think they're great, especially the last one of the moon (onlt looked at about a week's worth cos my internet's being slow). So, no, it's not obvious. I think you've done really well - sometimes it can be more of a challenege to get a good photo with a P&S I think.
go through your manual, play with your camera, and then go through it again... some P&S cameras have more settings than what people realise. Also, if you have a Canon go the the CDHK Wiki website and download a patch that will free up many more manual settings.
I use a P&S and I'm really happy with some of the results. I did get questioned about one of my pictures as to whether it had really been a P&S becasue of the detail. I took that as a great compliment! I love taking pictures but I'm a bit of an instant person, carry it everywhere I go and have to admit I have never got on with anything more elaborate! It's the pictures you see in your mind and take that matter not the camera. (Just my point of view) I use a Canon Ixus 100IS
you take some great photos. And yeah, its whos behind the camera... nto the camera you use. my friend uses her 3 mega pixel camera on her phone to take stunning landscape photos. dslr cameras are fantastic, but someone could have a really expensive camera but take shitty photos... it all depends on if you know what your doing. judging by your photos you use that point and shoot very well. Most of my most popular photos are my old ones that where taken with my 4 mega pixel point and shoot camera... most people dont know that. I learned most of what I know about photography through point and shoot cameras... and then after like 6 years i bought a dslr.
I have a P&S camera although I do aspire to saving up for a "better" camera one day, but only because my ISO levels are rubbish on this one and i I really enjoy macro shots.
Like everyone else has said, its how you use your materials. As the saying goes, "only a bad workman blames his tools". What's more important I believe then having a flashy camera is having a photographic eye.
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But really I had no idea you were using a P&S! Your photos are fantastic :) I believe I am now following you :)
The camera itself is just a tool - how good the photo is depends on your creativity - and you are living proof!
Just had a browse through some of yours and think they're great, especially the last one of the moon (onlt looked at about a week's worth cos my internet's being slow). So, no, it's not obvious. I think you've done really well - sometimes it can be more of a challenege to get a good photo with a P&S I think.
Like everyone else has said, its how you use your materials. As the saying goes, "only a bad workman blames his tools". What's more important I believe then having a flashy camera is having a photographic eye.