ashsometimes the limitations of the camera works in your favour. it wasn't my intention to bleach out the sky but this is how it turned out. I like to think it gives the slight impression of a japanese print.
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Most of these were taken on a Canon ixus400.
I've had it for four years after noticing how much fun others were having with pocket-sized cameras. It's a bit arthritic now but it's still my little favourite.
About three years after getting the ixus I bought a digital SLR and one of these days I'll learn how to use it.
chicken soup
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There's a few references to photoshop. I avoided using photoshop in the beginning, it's a moot point whether it's still photography and not merely computer graphics. This idea changed when my friend and pro photographer, Anne, urged me to ''push'' my images to get the best results. Now I feel it's all about the finished image; the end justifies the means. In a way this implies photography has been devalued, and it has, but then no one has been using box cameras and silver nitrate for a while - it's progress. As long as the spirit is alive, it's still photography.
Very nearly all the images involve some photoshop but I've only tagged those that used more photoshop than photography.
Technically, I still don't use photoshop. It's Paintshop Pro Photo XI. At one tenth the cost and able to do everything I need it to, I can put the half-grand saved towards another lens.
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Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
What is art? Art could be how you view life and not necessarily tied to the production of objects.
Hamish Fulton
Hamish Fulton
If we had never before looked upon the earth, but suddenly came to it man or woman grown, set down in the midst of a summer mead, would it not seem to us a radiant vision? The hues, the shapes, the song and life of birds, above all the sunlight, the breath of heaven, resting on it; the mind would be filled with its glory unable to grasp it, hardly believing that such things could be mere matter ... too beautiful to be long watched lest it should fade away.
Richard Jefferies, from 'Wild Flowers'
Richard Jefferies, from 'Wild Flowers'
Photography needs more anarchists.
Anne de Haas
Anne de Haas
In our creativity, we should endeavour to make mistakes. There is nothing wrong in making mistakes; in fact it should be regarded as a creative virtue. After all, success is just an accident that occurs while we are making mistakes.
potager's proverb
potager's proverb
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson
walk slowly,
take your time
and smell the roses...
take your time
and smell the roses...
pea & ham
Being a blog, photos get posted in chronological order not always in the order they're made, and never in an order which represents my own favourites, whether it's artistically pleasing, a fascinating learning process, an enjoyable day's hunting or just bloody amazing that anything turned out better than I hoped!
Also, as every picture tells a story, I thought I'd select a few images which mean more than the majority I've snapped and place them to a sub-blog, which I call Short Back & Sides, and I'll record some notes and memories, motivation and inspiration, and any other mumbles that come to mind.
5 comments:
Sky is one of the hardest things to capture on a digital camera especially.. hard time with tonal ranges and contrasts and exposure.
That's why sometimes I go into my sky folder and slide in any old sky into the void of white. In this case I don't think it would have looked half as good as yours does anyway.
I agree it works as a Japanese print. Only thing missing is the lettering.
sometimes i'm indoors and i get an itch to take photos - anything, really. i usually end up wandering around the garden - like a teddy bea...eh?
(sorry, i had a moment of childhood regression there!)
...around the garden taking photos of grass, washing lines, the garage, anything! it was one of those days and these are the trees at the front of our house.
anne, yes i have been frustrated taking bright sky and foreground without compromising either.
i wonder if you would use lens filters to reduce glare?
That is very good!
What camera did you use and what mode was it on?
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finlay, i'll have to confess i don't know - it's just a point & shoot canon ixus400; I'm gearing up for an SLR very soon.
all I can say is it's set for the 'very best quality' setting (big file size!) and I've taken it off the preset 'average' 9-spot focus metering to centre spot metering, which I can better control by the two-stage shutter release.
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