Photo and Pictures

Let the sharpness of the photo of the landscape totally make you feel awe. You win on placing something reflective or bright in the foreground lead the viewer in. Let him/her discover your landscape and try to let emotions run free.

It is discovery of the landscape and feeling the same awe as you that make the picture. Don’t forget to channel the emotions of the place. It is essential that you are trying to channel the emotions of the place to make the landscape interesting.

The morninglight will turn your photo much softer so think of the time as a modifier to your light. It will make your photo much softer in tones and let the subject has a much warmer tone. The light is important and plays a important role to the subject that you are portraiting. So let it be a concern to take pictures at the right time.

It might be well worth the wait or going up early one morning just to take that picture. Then aperture and shutter speed play a much less role and the actual time you take your photo is much more important.

Local enhancement is a simplier name on sharpening your picture with a large radius. I use 30-50 points as a size when sharpening. I usually use a radius that is quite small when i sharpen my picture but here you use a very large radius thus will effect the contrast in the picture. I have played around some although effecting the haze.

I wanted some halo-effects on the picture and thus i wanted it to control the picture with strong contrast. If you take your time and play around with unsharp mask you can have some strange effects. It is vital that you know of local contrast since it is a useful tool.

Remember you also can do USM only on the light layer in LAB mode to have a sharper image that will not effect the coulor of the photo. Doing unsharp mask will effect the image in different ways making it somewhat darker and this you should know of.

Read more: Luminious Landscape

The motif will contrast against the background and stand out more if this is a thing you think of. This is a quite messy background could actually improve if you bring your own background. I like it as it is adding to the environment though photographic it is mych better if you bring a background.

You can also bring a bottle of water and spray the motif if you think that is a way of improving the picture. Food photographer also may improve the picture with using glucose and actually making the food inedibly. You should not always trust your eyes and start improving the photo with all means.

One should know this as it is important as photographer to create an illusion and the perfect picture. Lighting is perfect and the eye is pleased. The photo might in reality be faulty in others perspective.

Looking at my photos and discovers the diverse. I have taken pictures of everything. It is always something that is going as a red thread through all pictures. I try to keep the spirit of me. Never faulter your view or your look at everything.

You do best what you do. Try always different techniques but let your way at looking at the world shine through. It is not dependent of stuff and things. Its in your mind. Let your spirit shine through.

When you ar are walking te street taking photo look for contrast since it will help. Your photo will have much more impact on the viewer if your picture is having good contrasts.

Think of the color wheel since it is deciding what colours are in contrast to each other. Your picture will make the viewer having the content much more if you are searching for the contrasting colours and let them stand against each others.

Here in the picture you can see clearly the red branches stand on a bright blue sky. You know what you should be start looking for. Don’t forget the image should also be telling. If you can’t find any contrasting colours maybe it is good as black/white.

Always try out if your photo will do as black/white. It is not so hard since you can always test it with desaturate when you are editing.

When you are shooting Raw you can see the picture as black/white and having the full information of color. It will be easier learning to see what really works as black/white when you actually can see the picture in the LCD.

Using a short depth of field will help you compose your photo. It will bring out the subject and make it clearer what you want to point out. When you use a longer depth of field composing will be more complex and you also get the opportunity to use other objects as symbols and what you are telling with the picture.

Be aware of this so you can start telling something with your photo.

Use the background fuzzy to enlargen the motif of the photo. You learn how to create depth by having the background fuzzy. Learn how to do this effectively. It is a good way to framing your picture when the frontal layer will be fuzzy.

Be sure to compose your picture right as it is the most important thing and let the viewer see what is important. You can lead him if you know how to.

Photo: Bengt B. In this article, which will grow over time, I will tell you where to find pictures and photos from the Middle East that you can use for free. Be aware of the licenses though. There will be pictures from Israel, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon and many more countries. The focus is on images and pictures as resources you can use for free. It is important that you think of the licenses that is the condition under which the images are published. You should specify who is the photographer and photos may sometimes be used for commercial purposes.

Searchable sources
Wikimedia – a source where all images are either in the Public Domain, Creative Commons or GFDL. You are looking myself up country or region you are looking for pictures. It could be Israel , Palestine or the Middle East. It is easy to slip over to Wikipedia where the images from wikimedia used. You can watch in category Public Domain if you want an image that you can do whatever you want with. For example, you can find such images on Israel during PD_Israel.

U.S. Search.gov Images – here you will find images that are often the public domain as they are used in the various U.S. authorities. You can search on for example the Middle East to find what you want, but it’s probably better to be more specific, such as Gaza.

Partimes Space Pictures Mid East – Pictures taken by satellite from areas in the Middle East. NASA images are in Public domain. You can find the country you are looking for from NASA .

Ping News presents pictures in different categories at flickr, which purports to be Public Domain or Creative Commons , for example, Mideast. I myself would be cautious and try to find out where the images come.

Film

Al Jazeera Creative Commons – Here you can find movies about the Middle East that are licensed at creative commons.