Photo and Pictures

It is important to be able to recreate your good photo. Try to take the same picture twice. It is also good for your learning process. Finding your style.

It is important to be so good on exposure, ISO and shutter speed to know your photo is not just some accident or purely luck. You will learn much by the process. Simply relying on luck you can hire a baboon taking your pictures. The editing is getting that good these days.

Try to learn your tools as good as you can. Know your camera and its lenses. You also have to know how to photo edit and make the most out of your pictures.

Photo: Bengt Båvegård
There are easy ways to make your old pictures and new. By selecting half your landscape in an image editing program and flip it and then copy it and paste it next to the old one you will get a new little strange landscape. I got the idea of Flickr Group Gimpusers. You can often go back to old photos, and both find gems that you missed, and through innovative thinking you can create wonderful images that you have not thought of when the picture was taken. Your creative side might be locked when the photo is made. Go back often and look at old pictures you will find plenty of gems. By crop creatively or mirror images, you often find new angles on old material.

DSLR Tips is a site for people who just bought a digital SLR and want to learn the basics. It is really the basics for beginners. It is Gordon Laing from Camera Labs, which are in hand and it bodes well for the future. There are few good beginner’s pages. I recommend you also that you read the manual in it, you can also find many good advice. Also check through the articles here on Photo and picture for there are lots of good tips.

Remember you can always check old articles from the frontal page. You can also check a whole category and go through it, like photography. Feel free to surf anything and comment anything you see.

Photo food is a difficult art, and it includes a lot of which you may not think of. In this movie gives you a quick insight into Edward Cownas everyday as food photographer.

I though it would be helpful to describe the site and help you get the most out of Photo and pictures. The first might be obvious to everyone the featured post is often the first you come to. There is also a random post down in the magazine that let you easy search the site while doing nothing. That is actually a plugin, Random post.

You can also search the site in the right side column or look at a certain category with a click on “Photography, Photo editing, Photo service…” etc. There will also be links above the posts on the front. On the front page and down you can reach Recent comments, Random articles and Recent articles. You will also find a link to our community at the right column. There will also be RSS flow to the posts and to comments and you will find links to good pages. You can also translate the site from the right column.

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When I am out and shooting in nature so I usually try to find a focus that I can concentrate on. One day I was out and took a long trip in Tyresta (english version) . Today’s focus had to be fungi and they do adapt to their environment and weather conditions. I think that is a focus i am getting some better pictures.

The first image was a picture of some Agaricales as I saw that photograph from underneath so that I had a backlight. That was also the case that I got some mushrooms underside.

I had to limit myself so that I focus on a particular type of images which allows me to develop precisely the knowledge and thoughts on how my pictures should be. I just took with me my Canon 50m: 1.8 lens, which I find increasingly better and better. Something that struck me directly is that I would like a flash that could provide an exciting light. More recently i have taken some nice pictures with LEDs. It would be interesting to see what they themselves could do.

The next picture was a few brittle, glassy small fungi who stuck up in a colony. Here it is important to have a slow shutter speed so that I get good color despite the poor light. Here you can have with you a bag of beans or use the terrain or something so the camera is stable and then put the camera on self-timer so you avoid camera shake.

Finally I found a lone mushroom next to a pine tree that I framed in with the surrounding terrain, and choose a relatively short depth of field to highlight the subject. The sharp benches are also in good contrast with the dark background. Also try to have a focus on something the next time you are out shooting. It need not even apply to natural photo. If you are shooting in town so maybe you can focus on one type of buildings or why not working on people. Think outside your usual photo and dare to give yourself a challenge. A different focus than you would normally have so you shoot a whole new type of images.

My passion is photo and i try to make people more learned about photography. Therefor i have written a lot of posts about photo and giving you all these different tips. I think photo should be easy and accessible.The industrials are providing you with good cameras. No brand are making bad pictures, but people can without knowledge. So i provide the knowledge how to excel at creating good photos.

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I’ve been playing aroumd with a little over-exposing my photo. It is good to do some trial and error with the creative modes. How will it effect your photo and settings. It is good to know your camera. Play around in TV and AV modes or why not in manual mode. You can not paint if you do not know their brushes. Photography is just to paint with the light.

You are going to venture away from the automatic mode for you to take control of your camera. Play has always been a great way to learn and always will be. I have previously written about both the aperture and shutter speed. I think though Fotonomy writes well and perhaps a little more comprehensive about mastering shutter speed and aperture.

I myself almost exclusively use the manual mode now because I feel I have better control of the images I want to paint. Certainly be the ultimate geek but never forget about the picture. Terje Hellesø have very right in that we too often focus on the technology and forget the imagery.

If you want to learn more about the imagery, so I made a compilation of good sources to read on here on Photo and Pictures. In addition, Digital ProTalk made a statement about a couple of messages about good simple things you can think of.

In the case of photo, there are some good rules to remember. Just remember that it is always good to be creative and think again. This is done best if you have a good foundation to stand on. It is only when people know what they are doing and have good knowledge that you can really get creative. The more you know and feel to the freer you can be. Once you’ve gotten to know the basic rules, you also know when to violate them.

It is also your equipment. Get to know your equipment so you know what you can do with it. Read the manual for your camera, both one and two times. Ask at the forum when it’s things you wonder about.

1st Sunshine aperture 16 or f16 rule.
The basic rule for exposure on a bright, sunny day is f/16 when you have a shutter speed of 1 over your ISO setting. If you have ISO 100 so you should have f/16 with a shutter speed of 1 / 100. From this you can then adjust a little.

2nd Rule to avoid motion blur due to small motion you involuntarily make is that you can safely hold a camera with slow shutter most are 1 / the focal length of lens you use. Do you have a lens with focal length 250 as the slowest shutter between 1 / 250th The longer time the higher the risk of motion blur. Use a 50mm lens shoot no less than 1 / 60. Do you feel that you are not getting enough light, use the tripod, flash, or let the camera rest on something steady. You can also use the burst method.

3rd Get a white balance filter. It is easy to fix with a tray from Ikea called “smula” for 15kr. Use the filter to set the white balance right. You can use the tray or a white coffee filter to set the white balance.

4th It is important to know how the depth of field works and how it can enhance your image. In a landscape, for example, it is a good tip to focus one third in the image to get a maximized depth of field. This makes it close to you perceived as sharp and you may also be a good sharpness in the rest of the picture.

5th Expose for highlights and let the shadows get by as best as they get. It is possible to get the light into the shadows, but impossible to save spent time and lots of edits if the photo is overexposed.

Have not you got any tips? Please comment and tell so maybe I pick it up.

Update: Take a peek at the label tips for more easy tips.

My second camera is Canon and i have it borrowed out to my brother. Taking photos show that a new world opens up with the fixed lens at 50mm: 1.8 and I have been a little hard to see why they insist on passing a crude zoom lens with startup packages. I can take much better pictures with the cheaper fixed lens at 50mm, which has both improved brightness and sharpness across the image. Since i wrote this the quality of the zoom-lens improved and are stabilized too.

It seems quite clear that they have been screwed over and over when you realize how much better images as the cheap fixed lens does. Okay, I may run more because the zoom can sit in your feet, but the images are huge much better. Furthermore, I can shoot in lower light indoors and I think most beginners in the photo is more than served than to avoid moving around. Are you buying your first SLR so skip the half dodgy kit-lens (since i wrote this kit-lenses has improved though) and get a 50mm fixed lens instead. Then, to get a zoom lens, it is still better to go for a little longer focal length.

My advice to you who like to get SLR is to buy a fixed lens on 50mm and then obtain an economic lens and Canon has, I believe that their new 55-250mm can be an economical option where you get a very good zoom lens with Image Stabilizer . The problem with cheap lens is the brightness which is not at all particularly good.

What is frightening is that many retailers look to the cheap option is difficult to obtain by small stocks and long waits. I had to wait three weeks before I got my fixed lens. They obviously want you to buy the more expensive options where they have higher profit margins. They bite themselves in the foot and you make sure to order the more expensive option and force then to have to wait more. We as customers can control the market by requiring that there be good cheap quality products in stock. The complainant and above all do not buy the more expensive option because it is what they have in stock.

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