Grainy photos and troubles in macro

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Originally Posted by fkshiu

The pictures are grainy because you're using too low a resolution setting. The pictures are all less than around 80KB in file size. They should be much larger. Use the maximum file size and resolution on your camera.

As far as the colours are concerned, Canons generally don't have the best WB compensation characteristics. Try re-adjusting the colours with software after you take them and download them onto your computer.

+1 I
always take my pictures at the maximum resolution other than raw. Then touch up the color correection with the software that came with my camera, usually just to pull some of the blue from the photos. Then resize them yourself when you save over the corrections, and upload to photobucket at 1 megabyte file size.