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Post by Village Idiot on Dec 30, 2009 20:10:29 GMT -5
Greetings, all. I'm absolutely new to photography. Kim got me a camera for Christmas. Not a professional camera by any means, but pretty nice. Something for me to carry around with me to take pictures of weird stuff. I've never done more than take a picture and share it; today I've been playing around with actually doing something with the picture. Today I went from this: to this: Nothing spectacular at all, Just different. And for all I know, it's the fact that it's different that makes it work for me. I don't know. But I'm having fun playing around. I seem to have lost some focus on the second one.
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Post by sekhmet on Jan 1, 2010 11:58:08 GMT -5
You went a long way from first to last Village. Clearly the camera will tend to make everything "medium gray" and pictures of things that are lighter than that all over will be needing that little boost.
You have to watch the edges of things when you sharpen. Digital software sharpens by making the edges of things, to the depth of a few pixels, either lighter or darker. The fewer pixels that are being used to show a thing, the more destructive sharpening gets. You can see that in the window (?) of the white building.
So, tell us about the camera - what is it?
By the way, nice photo of the farm! Good call on the cropping.
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Post by Cornflake on Jan 3, 2010 23:04:42 GMT -5
Keep at it, VI. It's fun. I still have a shot of the very same scene, but in my shot it's all green.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2010 12:27:54 GMT -5
Been into photography forever, but never into the pic manipulation in the digital realm until I just recently hit the "auto enhance" button in my bundled HP pic software. It was quite the "oh !" moment.
It's fun when everything is so new ;D
cheers
kb
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