Funtography

Full color or just Black and White?

Posted by Aar in Tools 'n Tips at May 29th, 2009.

Below are 2 versions of the same picture: the first one is only scaled without any other processing; the second has additionally been converted to grayscale and sharpened with some additional contrast:

Composition tips

Posted by Aar in Macro and Tools 'n Tips at April 20th, 2009.

Much is said about composition: what’s on the picture, where is located in the frame and – very important – what’s left out.
Some tips:

• Don’t put the most important element in the middle
• Show enough, but not too much of the environment
• Let the picture tell a story

The picture below violates all these rules… but does that make it a bad picture??? Please let us know what you think!

How to picture your pet

Posted by Aar in Tools 'n Tips and Wonderful at April 18th, 2009.

Pets are even more difficult to picture nicely than children…
Yet, you may succeed when:

• You are lucky to have the right lens (a zoom may help!)
• The composition is nice (no blocking elements)
• Lighting is adequate (sunny or flash)
• And the animal is willing to sit still for a moment!

If all this is positive, you may end up with a photograph like this one:

Views from a bridge

Posted by Aar in Tools 'n Tips and Urban at April 10th, 2009.

Two pictures are taken from the same bridge in roughly the same direction, but still… they are so different:


These are the differences: