Q about 'macro' camera settings

[sheepherder]

Just got bacl from WallyWorld; got a white & a beige bath towel. Really wanted a light blue but there were no pastel bath towels; most were garish mixed colors...

It wasn't until I got home that I thought I should have looked in the 'baby' section. I'll check that next time I go 'up town'.

Which will be in a couple days; insulation prices seem to have skyrocketed, $52 for a bundle of faced R30 9 1/2" x 16" x 48"...I didn't have enough cash...

My Kodak EasyShare CX7430 is a dumbed-down digi-cam designed for brain dead soccer moms; not much in the way of adjustments. 4.0 mega pixels, Auto, Portrait, Sport, Night, Landscape, and Close Up are the only 'settings'. It does have a separate Video mode.

I had to 'lighten' the pics in PSP to bring out the detail in the handgun. I used the 'Gamma Correction' function.

I've never been a camera buff. (IOW, I have no idea what you are all talking about).

Dwight mentioned software correcting. I may have that capability in Paint Shop Pro 10.2, which I use mostly for shrinking scanned magazine articles. I use Paint Shop Pro 4.12 for quick editing. Old but small footprint. And easy enough for a dummy like me.

[sheepherder]

This is a vertical shot; high noon, bright sunlit day, in shadow, using the beige towel. The towel looks white outside. I aimed about an inch over the top of the slide. 'Close Up' setting. I can still see reflections in the flat surfaces. Colors are still out of whack; my grips are brown.

But at least the slide doesn't look quite as warped/bent.

Second pic is scanned on my HP OfficeJet 7210 All-In-One, resized, and Gamma corrected (but not as much), again with the beige towel.