Try to think in different layers when you are composing your photo. Here i turned the dark fussy dark leaf into foreground to create a layer. Then lifting the sharpness and brightness to the motif and letting the background be again fuzzy.
You will create layers which the viewer find pleasant and worth a round tour. You are creating a small world of your own.
You can lift your photo if you start searching for new angles and colours. A Toyota will be seen in a new light if you let its colour shine. You need to find the right angle and light to get the picture. The photo will lift from colours.
Using the environment to lift the angle of the photo will make you search for more photo possibilities. You will see more possibilities in a fast prime lens.
Sometimes when you take photo you do some mistake. On this picture i forgot to reset the shutter times, so they still was a long exposures. As with this picture such mistakes can start a chain of reactions and you are start taking more picture or stumble over pearls you are not even aware you have taken.
So let the photos float over to your computer before you start erase. Your memory card also are getting better if you don´t erase pictures. The LCD will never do the picture justice so its easy to be fooled by that. Stay cool and don’t erase until you actually seen the photo.
Using photo to capture my feelings of summer that is approaching. This Primula veris is saying hello summer and goodbye spring time. Flowers and insects are awaking they are all the sign of a new season.
Use symbols and happenings in your life become your photography. You will certainly be talking more directly to your viewer. Get in touch with your emotions and let them speak in your photo. This even if you are breaking the rules of good composition. Good imagery is better if you use symbols.
It is sane advice to try to fill the frame so you don´t have to crop the photo later. You will loose too much information so you really have to train to filling the frame with the actual motif.
Also try to learn to selective sharpen so the blurry background stays out of focus. If you sharpen that you will get nasty effects of sharpen noise. If you really need some more blurryness why not try gaussian blur with Gimp or Photoshop.
Remember even though it is probably trickier and harder to learn Gimp saves you alot of money even though now CS5 have produced a student licence where you are allowed to do some professional work. Open Source have made it possible to create almost the same result. I believe there is many pirate copies out.
Shooting abstract and minimal photo gives you a good photo. They will have a give a natural perspective and a different angle. You will find new ways to find your pictures as you are searching for angles and colors that suits together. when you are hunting you also can use cropping as an tool and cut out a portion in your photo but try to find the right light and angle.
It may be a challenge to find the right colors that fit together and the motif that is minimal of detail. Try to find curves or lines.
You should try to fill your photo with the motif. Try always choose a interesting angle to let the viewer have a fresh look. I am trying to get some speed with the soft motif and sharp background. It is probably slightly overexposed. Here i didn’t know how the camera would react. Know your equipment. The camera is still new and i am learning how it react in different situations.
Here i have used Gimp’s Gegl C2G and burn as layer mode to make the most of the photo. I am showing you the dark contrast of the picture to making the photo stand out from the original that still have great colours.
Please learn your photo edit application as it is your way to develop and control your photo and soon you will start to think how you will take your picture to make the most out of your photo edit. Gegl will become the motor of next version of Gimp as it is now Gimp have two motors.
You can let your photo tell something about the actions. Here a tulip in my series tulips that i made my fotoproject. The tulips have finally gone into the waste and taking a photo of the action throwing them away are telling a whole story. So start let your photos tell a story by catching an action.
It don´t have to be throwing tulips away, but its important that you are start telling something with your pictures. Let them come to live.
It is time to chase spring signs a chance for you to get out and catch some. Tussilago here is caught with my cellphone so you don’t need any expensive equipment just your imagination. Try a different angle with your cellphone you might still catch the spring in your camera.
Go out there and try to catch the spring. It is still time. Melting snow, springflower and anything else that marks beginning of another time
