Light and Dark, 11-11-05
I was looking at my pictures on a buddies comp when I realized he was looking at the same pictures but seeing them different. My silhouettes wern't really silhouettes, I thought maybe he just had his gamma turned up to high when I saw it from another computer and it was almost the same. Think I need to make some sort of guage to put on here to let people know how I am seeing them... or just live with it, hell i dunno =\
posted by Dave at 11:39 PM
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Okay, so I was supposed to be busy doing schoolwork, but I got hooked looking through all your photos. Your dragonfly pictures put mine to shame. :(
My favorites are of the insects, the water droplets on the flowers & plants, sunsets/sunrises/silhouettes, the ice/snow, and the close ups of the Christmas lights. This one is one of my favorites: X-mas Lights, 11-8-05.
Naw, not to shame... if you looked at my archived pics then you saw the first 2 months worth. Most of them just plain sucked hah.
One other thing... i cheat on A LOT of these pictures. I touch them up with paintshop also alter the crap of quite a few. Although some of the ones you listed up there are before i started "fixing them" ;) . Thanks for checkin them out and get paintshop you won't believe the things you can do with it.
Actually, I dunno if you already have... but get Picasa 2. It's free and a damn good starter program for editing pics. http://picasa.google.com/index.html
I have Paint Shop Pro 7. I have done things with it, but I never do anything to the photos I post. I only resize the image. I will look into Picasa, my dad might already have it, I don't know.
Have a great day!
Paint Shop Pro can do good things with photos (besides resizing). I usually use it to compensate for when I am photographing a shot with both light and shade. The camera never seems to get it quite right so I adjust the contrast until the balance looks right.
I'm a bit of a stickler right now for "keeping it real", but maybe I'm just jealous of everyone's PhotoShop skills. Hmm... something to think about.
I've been using a digital camera now for about 2.5 years. I'd taken photographs with some care since about the late 70's, but took a 20-year or so hiatus to just live my life instead of always looking for the right angle and light. After renewing my interest in photography via digital tools, I feared I wasn't making "real" photographs for the first 18 months or so (of digital); believed I shouldn't alter my images much. Then I started playing with Photoshop some, just learning. I began to look back at Ansel Adams, W.Eugene Smith, Margaret Bourke-White, all the great B&W photographers and I realized that the negative was only the beginning of their creative process. They worked as hard to convey their intent using the darkroom as they had in framing the shot. So now, no apologies!
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