Ilva from Tuscany, enjoyable photos that smell of italy

Foto: Ilva B., Macro/Closeup Set

Ilva is a wonderful woman with a passion for food and photography. I got to know her through her blog Aglio e olio – an excursion into the Italian cuisine. She nows blogs at Lucillian Delights – an itallian experience. Just as you should be proficient in technology and function, it [...]

Pictures

Less is more on you photo. Think simple.»

Thinking simple in your photo always make more impression on those watching your pictures. Here i had chosen a diagonal composition on a snowy picture. I have cloned out som other flowers that was disturbing the photo. Its always rewarding thinking minimal when doing pictures. I am also making it in a square format to [...]

Pictures

Playing around with Gimp and G’mic to make a good photo»

Here i have played around with my photo editor Gimp and some filters Gmic and Gegl. Sometimes you find your style and its always right to play with old photo. You can find a pearl you overlooked the first time and now your state of mind is different. Try also the photo in black/white or [...]

Pictures

Remove photo haze with levels and use selective sharpening»

You wont to remove haze on your picture and lift it with selective sharpening. Try always to make the most of your pictures using a good photo editing program. A layermask makes it easy to sharpen selective and not sharpen the places that are soft.
Let the places instead stay unsharp and unfocused. You want to [...]

Camera and equipment

Build your own minimal lighttent almost free»

Why complicate it unnecessarily, if you want photography a small product image. Let’s say you have another small USB memory stick that you want to take a clean picture of. All you need is two A4 paper from your printer, and a strip of adhesive tape. AS the light source can you use an ordinary [...]

Camera and equipment

Print your lens hood free for better photo»

Why buy expensive plastic utensils when you can print your hood and make it for free. Lens Hood has pdfs for all of your lenses. Just print out. Think that it increases the contrast in your pictures and you do not have flares. Here you can read about what lens hood is doing and why [...]

Camera and equipment

Bibble 5 Pro is out and makes your photo better»

Bibble 5 Pro arrives after a long wait and i think the wait was a bit too long they lost many users on the way. You can edit your photo both in raw and jpg. Even though it is a able program with lots of features making you able to make the most of your [...]

Photo Editing

Making you own photo to an Andy Warhol»

Use Gimp and G’mic to warholize your own photo. I took my photo and used the filters in G’mic to make it like this. Using G’Mic is both fun and can be useful. I use it both to get rid of noise and sharpen my images, but of course you can have fun with alot [...]

Photo Editing

Photo editing is making your photo»

Nothing is making you picture more into it than editing your photo. What program you use is of less importance but it will make your photo so much better. The same picture can really make it if you edit it to create your style.
I newly used Twtpoll where you can create a poll making a [...]

Photo Editing

Vectorize your logotype free with Inkscape»

Inkscape is a vector-drawing program, which is open source and free to use. 0.47 version was released last year and there are a lot of exciting upgrades have been made. You can use the Gaussian Blur filter in, ie you can do things you mark blurry. Additionally, it has increased the speed with which it [...]

Photography

Histogram – how do I use it in my photo?»

Here you see the information in the histogram. The red arrow shows a high peak in right. You have overexposed the image. Take it with less exposure.

For me to evolve as a photographer, I need to understand how the colors and lighting works. If you master these grounds, you can create masterpieces. The light [...]

Photography

Nature Photography also requires planning»

Even in nature photo, it is important to think through and plan your photos. The challenge is to compose the picture right, but also pick out things that disturb the picture if possible. To photograph is not to reproduce reality exactly as much as it is painting with light. If you look at the pictures [...]

Photography

Use your zoom lens creatively to create motion in your photo»

Last fall I experimented with using the zoom on my kitobjektiv 18-55mm for my EOS 350D to create a little movement in the images by using long exposure while zooming. First, I played with a pepper grinder that we have at home on the dinner table. I look to have quite some time and then [...]

Photo Services

Scrapbooking – as a webservice for you´re use Scrapblog»

Scrapblog is a Web service, but I feel like any program you have on your computer. It is easy to create your work. You can choose to use a ready-made theme or start with a blank page. There are lots of functions and features to make your pages like that Web 2.0-controlling, or if you [...]

Photo Services

Inserting a slideshow from flickr into your blog»

The reason i didn’t translate anything yesterday that i discovered things is much easier today and how much services like Flickr and Picasa web have developed only during the past years. Embedding a slideshow into your blog is nowadyas so much easier than it used to be.
We all remember the time when you have [...]

Photo Services

Flickr – put your picture on the map and clusters (Part 3)»

With a simple link you will be at map

Following a question from a reader so I started to look at this to find out their photos on Flickr. I had been given to me that it was complicated, but I quickly learned that it was very easy. Just go to the image you want to [...]

Miscellaneous

The major pitfalls of digital photography»

The large errors you make when you are doing digital photos are perhaps more hidden than initially believed. This tells me about what I think is my pitfalls, and little about why I think it’s things that I should work on to improve.
Gear Acquisition Syndrome
Why this is an obstacle to taking great pictures, you [...]

Miscellaneous

Easy Photo Blog – show your photos on internet»

Create your own photo blog. How do I do if I want to show off my beautiful pictures and photos on the web? Sure it works well with Flickr which I tell about the past. I might get some more opportunities and perhaps mix more with text. When is a photo blog is a good [...]