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The red egret photographed here shows and uncropped photograph with a cropped photograph. I then did some saturation, and used levels to find a right balance, in raws mode I adjusted the
Black levels
Exposure
Saturation
(I will talk more about the curves, layers, etc and printing in the near future. There are so many important things [...]
How to photograph challenging nature shots. This series of short articles shows how to overcome challenging nature photographs. The subject is a rare red egret that was too far away for the 100 - 400mm lens.
Today at the Bolsa Chica Wetlands it was very quite. There were not many birds about. Then I came upon the Red Egret. There is a pair that came up from, it is believed, Baja California a couple of years ago and they have been around since.
The red egret fishes a bit [...]
The apples and the poppies photographs are some of the best examples of ideas I had in my mind of pimages that I wanted to get. One photograph took me about 6 shots the other took me about 1000 shots.
Let’s back up and find out how I had the images in my [...]
I usually start off with a vision in my head of what I would like to get. When I first started photography I never could get the image I saw in my mind onto film or digital format. It was after shooting for a while before I began to get those ideas I had on film (or digital format).
The all purpose lens is great for many and most people and some events. The lens that can go from say 35mm – 70mm is a good multipurpose lens. You can take some nice panoramic photographs as well as some nice portrait photographs, some event work and general purpose photography.
That is a very [...]
A telephoto lens adds yet another interesting dimension to a photograph (see image). You cannot get as close to an object but you can get a very sharp image and a good blurred background adding interest to the image. Telephoto lenses are a bit more complicated. They have fixed length telephoto, zoom [...]
Continuing on with the last post with a different views I thought I would start off with the different types of lenses that could be used. This post will talk about macro lenses. You can get a fairly inexpensive macro lense and the abilities it offers is incredible. You can get within [...]