We got dumped on with snow. I spent my entire Saturday with a shovel, snow, and my dear yellow Lab attacking just about every shovelful that I threw. We took a few breaks from the back breaking work.....
This one is for Scrabby, so I am posting in another post rather than what I just posted.....
We talked a bit about those 2 photos with the dog. If you have Photoshop, Gimp (FREE), Paintshop Pro, or any other heavier photo editing software, you can do quite a lot with photos. I took your 2 shots of the dogs and made some adjustments. I adjusted levels and added a good bit of warming to them. Any time you resize something to post on the net, you should also give them some sharpening after the resize. Resizing will make the photos go a little soft. I don't know what you used to resize those to post.
It was quick work and not perfect as you can see the tone difference between the 2 edits. Still a good bit of blue in the 2nd shot.
With snowy shots like this, there is one more thing that is a problem with the way cameras take the shot. With auto white balance, cameras do not do so well with snow. What I do is I just set the camera to custom white balance (RTFM) and use the snow to set the custom setting. That helps a lot as there was quite a lot of blue tone to the shots after adjusting the levels for exposure.
Hope you don't mind me taking the opportunity to edit a bit to show.
Oh yeah, forgot..... Amy, the yellow Lab in my above post, use to have a ball similar to your dog's ball. She does some modifications to just about all her toys though.....
Thanks you guys. I spent half the day outside with the dog and the kids, and the other half, I just got home from out and about with the camera for about 3 hours (about 70 miles in the car...) I took the "long" way home from the store
I've got about 250 photos to sort through now, but it has to wait until the kids are in bed.
These are some photos I took tonight of my mom's paintings (she wanted to put up better representative pics for her Etsy.com site). All with the K20D and FA 50 f/1.4, done in AV mode, f/4.0, ISO 400-1600, depending:
lol none of my pics have an ounce of creativity yet, my main prob atm is i havent got a tripod yet(well i have, its on old cheapo thing my dad had for his camcorder, but part of the head is missing) and i want to do a bit of still life stuff
Mental state has been in the drains and stress in the clouds lately so all motivation has been more or less absent. Managed to get my trusty model to pose for some silly shots.
Hope you got some laughs out of these. More info at my flickr if someone's interested.
normally im not interested in photos of people, but in your case, i always like to see them, i like your style. could be cover photos for some music cd.
Admit it Don, you just think she's HAWT!! Has nothing to do with his shooting style.
I have the same thoughts as Don. I'm not much of a people photography fan either. You do have some great style for your shots. And yes, it doesn't hurt that she is indeed.... HAWT!
I was out letting the dog do her thing tonight. While a fine snow was falling down in the freezing cold, I thought, hmm...... I grabbed the camera, flipped the flash on, stuck it out in the air facing up and snapped.
I thought it would just look like a bunch of stars in the night sky. Never thought it would look like this with the 2 on the right.
I took an hour out, today, to go on a Dales-ward jaunt. I felt the need to take a few photos. The light was absolutely abysmal (of course, it's Yorkshire in January!) there was a stiff breeze and I was really struggling. The photos that I got were cold and barren. Felt like a complete waste of time.
Then I had the idea to put the experience I'd had, taking the photos, into the photos that I'd got with a bit of post-processing (something I'm usually very much against doing). This is the result. Even though the scene didn't LOOK like this, it really did FEEL like it.
Thanks It would've looked a lot better if i had taken it with my new camera.
I really like these, the first one is awesome!
I'm needing some help with my camera.
Its a lovely DSLR Sony a350. But theres a certain type of photo i want to take, but my cameras being a bitch and wont do it.
What i want to be doing is something called Light Graffiti (I Think).
Which is bassicly just leaving the shutter open for a while and you just draw in the air using lights, My Website, Click Pictures To make Them Bigger These are some pictures that i took on my old camera, and as you can see they come out pretty well.
My old camera had a mode called fireworks where the shutter was left open for about 3 seconds, but 3 seconds is just too short.
So i tried it with my new camera and it just doesn't want to do it. I know how to set the shutter speed so that its nice and slow, but if i turn off all the lights and press the shutter button my camera tries to focus, but because its pitch black it wont focus :/ And if it doesn't focus it wont take the picture. I'm sure the fix will be something extremely simple that i hadn't tried yet.
