Happy New Year! Today we were lazy and hung around on the couch. I got deeper into my D3000 intro book and after getting overwhelmed I was wandering around online for tutorials or something new to distract my mind from melting all together.
I am also fiddling with saturation and colours in my jasc psp... I find it difficult to find online tutorials since I don't use mac and definitely do not have adobe photoshop... I will have to invest in a photo editting course it seems. But in the mean time I will make lemonade! (It hardly seems fair to compare my programs to lemons are they are capable of amazing techniques.) For example, the picture to the direct left is the same picture as the first one, only the saturation and colours are different. Personally I perfer the 2nd one.
I have always loved the monochrome with dash of colour photos are have always wished I knew how to do it. Well as usual, all online tutorials seem to be for adobe photoshop but I sorted made a cheat way which I'm sure everyone already knows. I haven't taken any pictures lately that I like enough to try my cheat method out on but I couldn't resist tonight.
Tomorrow I will go to Shaun's rec. hockey league game and experiment some more. I'm hoping to try out a few action blur shots and if I'm lucky I might get an action shot or two. Doubtful but I will keep my fingers crossed! I've got 18 or so games left in the season to get some. :D
I was experimenting with something I saw on dolcepics to distract myself.... I am starting (emphasis on the starting) to fiddle with ISOs, aperture and shutter speed. This is called light painting. It's hard to create specific shapes with the lights (hearts in the photo above) because the slightest shift is amplfied. Yes I tried stars, but it took about 60 tries and then I wasn't happy enough with the photo to post it online...even though no one sees this.
I am also fiddling with saturation and colours in my jasc psp... I find it difficult to find online tutorials since I don't use mac and definitely do not have adobe photoshop... I will have to invest in a photo editting course it seems. But in the mean time I will make lemonade! (It hardly seems fair to compare my programs to lemons are they are capable of amazing techniques.) For example, the picture to the direct left is the same picture as the first one, only the saturation and colours are different. Personally I perfer the 2nd one.I have always loved the monochrome with dash of colour photos are have always wished I knew how to do it. Well as usual, all online tutorials seem to be for adobe photoshop but I sorted made a cheat way which I'm sure everyone already knows. I haven't taken any pictures lately that I like enough to try my cheat method out on but I couldn't resist tonight.This last photo isn't light painting at all and I took it on a faster shutter speed. I'm currently reading about ISO settings in my dummie's guide, as I'm not smart enough for the idiot's guide yet, and have been learning a lot about the noise that comes with higher ISO levels. They mention that on your display screen a photo may seem noise free, but on your computer screen it can be a different story. I didn't tweak the contrast for fear of ruining the photo. I found the shadows in the picture actually accentuate the lights. I'm not sure if I like this photo yet or not.
Tomorrow I will go to Shaun's rec. hockey league game and experiment some more. I'm hoping to try out a few action blur shots and if I'm lucky I might get an action shot or two. Doubtful but I will keep my fingers crossed! I've got 18 or so games left in the season to get some. :D
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