Vignette

I'm always carrying a compact digital camera so that I can take pictures of what I was fascinated. As you know, a digital camera is dramatically improving day by day; it is getting smaller and lighter with a brighter lens, a longer-life battery and more functions. Compared to an SLR (single-lens reflex) camera, it is way easier to use. As I'm not a professional cameraman, I think that the compact digital camera is the best choice for me and it is enough except for one thing. We can't usually take a beautiful vignette with a compact camera because its lens is too small and it is the major difference of pictures taken with an SLR and compact camera. To take a good picture with a compact camera, we have to care about the background. As we can't vignette the noisy background we have to think about other methods we need to delete the background by changing the angle or coming closer to the main object. What I want to mention in this article is about the third method. It is that we can use so-called a "macro mode" on most compact cameras. By just clicking the button with tulip icon, we can get a vignette like this picture with a $200 compact digital camera.