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Photography Site
If anyone's interested, I set up a website with some of the pictures I've taken over the years. You can access it by clicking on the banner in my siggy. I'd love any feedback and/or tips, as I'm always trying to get better shots.
Just ignore the prices and such; the site is powered by redbubble, which I used to put together calendars and buy them for myself and family (I have a bunch of unpublished family pictures on there). It automatically generates the "sale" profile. Although, I am thinking about putting together a calendar or two of some of my favorites, and making it available for sale just for kicks, but I figure I have until next November to worry about that.
So, what do you think? Any good? What could I do to get consistently better shots?
Re: Photography Site
wow, there are some really beautiful shots on there! And I'm so jealous of all of the places you've been. I wish I traveled more.
I'm not sure if this is the kind of advice that you're looking for, but I think you might be missing out by avoiding all post processing, and using all of your pictures just as they come out of the camera. For me post processing isn't about enhancing reality, it's about making the picture look more like what I was actually looking at. Obviously the better your picture is out of the camera, the better your final result will be, but post is still an important step of the process.
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That makes sense. What I'm really rejecting are all the pictures on photography sites where which are so altered, you can't tell how much, if anything is part of the actual image. When the colors are changed so much a gray lake and looks turquoise or or the haze is removed from an picture taken in area known for it's smog, it just seems wrong to me.
Other than that, I have to admit, I have a very limited understanding of how to process photos well. Is there a workshop or book or something that would be a good place to start learning about that?
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If you are wanting to try photoshop, I have found Adobe's Classroom in a Book series to be a great starting place.
It's really amazing what PS can do with a good quality digital image. A few filters to enhance contrast and sharpen areas can take an image from good to great.
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do you already own any editing software? I use a combination of lightroom and photoshop. PS is pretty pricey though. Photoshop Elements is supposed to be a good tool for basic editing, and it's much more reasonable (< $100, I think).
I've actually gotten a lot of value out of the tutorials on Adobes website. They're free and usually easy to follow. Here's a link to the Elements tutorials if you're interested: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/photoshopelements/articles/tutorial_index.html
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My H bought me either PS or PS Elements, I'm not sure which. I will definitely check out the tutorials. Thanks!
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