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Friday 27 July 2007
Salisbury
I visited Salisbury today for the first time in years. The picture above was one of the images I grabbed during the visit (the purpose of the visit was not photography). I will add this picture to my Alamy portfolio in due course. I have read on photograph forums that you cannot submit pictures of people who are recognisable to agencies, unless you have signed model releases. Although this is true of the microstocks, it is not a universal rule. It is of course true that not having releases restricts the photo's use, but this image could still be used in an editorial context to illustrate a story about riverside regeneration, etc. The image itself was difficult to process due to the contrasty lighting. The final result is a combination of three RAW conversions - one converted for the mid-ground, one for the sky and one for the swans. Copyright © Greg Wright 2005-14 Photography from Frome - All rights reserved ¶ 22:34 0 Comments  
Thursday 26 July 2007
Image Misuse
I was flattered to find out that someone liked one of my images enough to use it as the background for their You Tube page. The only problem was that they had not licenced it!
This is the picture:
Edit: The page owner has now resolved the problem. All's well that ends well. Copyright © Greg Wright 2005-14 Photography from Frome - All rights reserved ¶ 21:51 0 Comments
Museum Pictures
More Rain....
I took a few shots of rain drops falling in a puddle today. The shutter speed proved crucia to success here. It was a little hit and miss because although the rain was falling hard and fairly steadily, was actually quite variable. I changed the shutter speed by varying the ISO. The best setting was ISO400 (1/125s at f/11).
Wednesday 25 July 2007
Sharpening
An perfectly focussed image from a digital camera will often look soft when compared to the same image on film. This is because there is inherently less edge contrast in a digital picture. This contrast must be enhanced for the picture to look sharp to our eyes. Sharpening is a bit of a contoversial subject. Some people say that you should only sharpen once, others suggest a multi-pass approach. I guess the best way forward is to experiment and see what works for you.
The Unsharp Mask tool in Photoshop is one way of carrying it out. Personally, I favour the three pass approach that the late Bruce Fraser advocates. The first pass is just to give the image a general pep-up - otherwise known as Local Contrast Enhancement. The second pass is to improve the image. This is creative sharpening to emphasise the sharpness in the areas that need it. This is often carried out in conjunction with an edge mask so that only certain parts of the image are sharpened. The final pass is output sharpening. This is designed to optimise the im age for the output device. The amout of sharpening required for this is quite specific. This link describes the effect of the Unsharp Mask controls: Here, the three pass approach is looked at in more detail: This one looks at a two pass approach, but it looks at creative sharpening in depth: This one looks at the way that different images need different amounts of sharpening: Copyright © Greg Wright 2005-14 Photography from Frome - All rights reserved ¶ 15:12 0 Comments
Tuesday 24 July 2007
Summer's Here!
Today, summer came back, if only for a day. The world (or my corner of it) looks the way that it should.
Monday 23 July 2007
Photographing Rain
It is actually quite hard to photograph rain. If you just point your lens at falling rain, the chances are that you will not get an interesting picture. You have to be a bit more subtle if you want to capture the 'essence' of rain.
There are of course many ways to do this. You could shoot the patterns that rain drops make as they fall into a puddle. People looking miserable huddled under a bus shelter could make a good picture. or maybe you could make someting of rain drops on a window.
Saturday 21 July 2007
Where's the Sun gone?
We've been having some unseasonal weather in England this summer. Luckily we haven't had the floods in Somerset that people in some other parts of the country have had to cope with. But the weather has not been great for photography. There is one particular field of barley that I want to snap that I have not been abel to get under the right weather conditions at the right time of day. It's very frustrating.
What I have found is that there are some places that actually benefit from the lack of sun. The contrast in woodland is greatly reduced in overcast conditions. This makes judging the exposure far easier and I get far high percentage of usable pictures when the sun is in. I was photographing some flowers in a meadow the other day. The sun was in and out. The sort of conditions when you can often make a good landscape photos. I have to say that the images I got when the sun was in were far better to those when the sun was shining on my composition. Very interesting.
In the days of film, overcast conditions would drain the saturation from photos. With digital equipment this is no longer a problem because saturation can easilty be increased on the computer. There is another type of picture that it is easier to take when the sun is in and there has been lots of rain. I'm talking about the classic shot of flowing water with a slow shutter speed. The water is flowing faster so you can use a faster shutter speed than normal. The lack of light means that it is easier to get the correct exposure with a slow shutter speed. Even so, a tripod is more or less essential for this type of shot.
Thursday 19 July 2007
Digital Cross-Processing
I came across this interesting roof the other day:
The light wasn't great and the sky was very boring. So, I thought I'd have a go at it in Photoshop. I don't often go for wild alterations, but I had just read an article in a magazine about cross-processing. This is the effect that you would get if you developed film in the wrong chemicals - developing print film in slide film chemistry for example. The effect is produced with an adjustment layer (you can download it from here). I also changed the perspective with the Crop tool. Anyway, here is the result:
Wednesday 18 July 2007
Welcome
Hi! This is my new blog. Just a little bit about me. I have been interested in photography since my teens. My first camera was a Canon AE1 which was great. Over time I have used several different models and now use a Sony A100 DSLR.
My work has appeared in several magazines including Amateur Photographer and Photoworld. I also contribute an agency, Alamy. I enjoy making pictures, whether they are for clients or for my own pleasure. Copyright © Greg Wright 2005-14 Photography from Frome - All rights reserved ¶ 20:53 0 Comments
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