Working with the macro mode

I purchased a Canon S3 digital camera a couple of years ago.  I have been getting better at learning to use it well, particularly after reading the tutorials posted at flickr for the Canon Powershot S2/S3/S5 IS How To group.

Today, I worked on ISO troubles.  When my photos turned out terribly grainy, I guessed that I might have inadvertently changed a setting.  A quick google for “canon S3 grainy” turned up enough information to point to the ISO setting as the culprit.  I set mine on 80 and went out to reshoot.

They aren’t spectacular, but I was pleased enough with these two: