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Showing posts with label before and after. Show all posts
Showing posts with label before and after. Show all posts
Monday, March 19, 2012
Before and after pics
Here are some more of my recent shots with the before and after photoshop elements.
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Friday, March 9, 2012
Metering Part Two
So here is a little example so you can see what I am talking about. I took these pictures today in my front room. The only light is the light coming in from my north facing window.
This first shot I chose my settings so my light meter arrow was pointing at the 0.
The settings are:
ISO 100
Shutter Speed 1/100s
f stop 1.8
See how the dogs fur looks grey. It shouldn't. This is a white dog.
So I changed my settings so that the light meter's arrow was pointing between the +1 and +2.
The new settings are:
ISO 200
Shutter Speed 1/60s
F stop 1.8
Both of these shots are strait out of camera (SOOC). They were just resized and sharpened for the web.
So there is actually a term for what we are doing here, ETTR (Exposing To The Right). It is possible to expose too much to the right and that is where using your histogram comes in. And that will be my next post. So stay tuned!
This first shot I chose my settings so my light meter arrow was pointing at the 0.
The settings are:
ISO 100
Shutter Speed 1/100s
f stop 1.8
See how the dogs fur looks grey. It shouldn't. This is a white dog.
So I changed my settings so that the light meter's arrow was pointing between the +1 and +2.
ISO 200
Shutter Speed 1/60s
F stop 1.8
Both of these shots are strait out of camera (SOOC). They were just resized and sharpened for the web.
So there is actually a term for what we are doing here, ETTR (Exposing To The Right). It is possible to expose too much to the right and that is where using your histogram comes in. And that will be my next post. So stay tuned!
Friday, March 2, 2012
Before and After Pictures
Along with learning how to take pictures I have also been learning a lot about processing my pictures. Processing can be great and most digital pictures can use at least a little bit of sharpening. But my real goal is to take awesome pictures SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera), so that they need little processing. I have Photoshop Elements8. Elements ia a lot cheaper then the full photoshop program but you can still do a ton with it. When I first starting using photoshop I used free action that I got from Pioneer Woman, Paint the Moon and Coffeshop.
As I have been trying to get more serious about photography I decided to really learn how to edit my pics without actions. Some photogs look at actions as cheating... Anyhow, this is a whole other discussion. I don't think I want to throw out actions completely. But I want to learn what they are doing, and use them selectively and creatively. For now I am attempting to edit on my own. Here are a few of my recent edits. You can also see these on my flickr page with the shooting information.
As I have been trying to get more serious about photography I decided to really learn how to edit my pics without actions. Some photogs look at actions as cheating... Anyhow, this is a whole other discussion. I don't think I want to throw out actions completely. But I want to learn what they are doing, and use them selectively and creatively. For now I am attempting to edit on my own. Here are a few of my recent edits. You can also see these on my flickr page with the shooting information.
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