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You should have shot these at a different angle so you can’t see your reflection in the bottles, unless of course this is what you were aiming for!
Also, try and make the background consistent so that it’s either the white sheet or blue sheet in the background. Also the WB is wrong for 2, 3 and 4. If you took these in RAW then you can fix this easily so that the sheet looks white, if indeed that is the colour!
Hi Ballyman
Thanks for that, I am only a newbie so I am kinda just shooting everything and anything using every button on the camera to see what it does. My improvised backrounds are courtesy of 2 silk nightys & the kitchen table :shock:
I know the WB is wrong for 2 & 4 but I thought it gave a kinda lush warm feel to the pic. Yeah I have a raw setting on the camera but I have not even tried to ‘fix’ photos yet, is that something you should be doing as you go along or should you master all the settings on the camera first? I have gotten some magazines and there seems to be 10,000 different versions of photoshop!! I got software with my camera, would that be sufficent enough for a beginner. There is sooooo much stuff out there it’s confusing!
Fi
Hi Fiona
If you think it gives a warm lush feeling then thats perfectly ok. It’s what you want to see that matters. Beauty in the eye of the beholder and all that :)
If you want to be technical then yes, the WB is off. The software you got with the camera should be able to fix this very easily and is more than sufficient for a beginner and more advanced users as well. Forget about software though for the moment and concentrate on the camera cos you can’t “fix” a photo thats just plain crap so it’s more important to be able to take photos that aren’t crap first off :)
Firstly, shoot in RAW. This is similar to having a film negative and needs to be “developed” when you are finished. By developed I mean using some kind of software to finish the photo. This will mean correcting colour, adding contrast and sharpening 99% of the time. The software that came with your camera is more than enough to do this for you.
Later on when you are comfortable with the camera and understand what you are doing you can and should move onto more advanced developing techniques using more powerful software like Lightroom and Photoshop. You’ll then see and understand how people “did that”!!!
Don’t be afraid to ask questions as everyone had to start somewhere.
Thanks Ballyman, a friend who I did not know was into photography recommended this site to me and he told me that I would learn so much by just putting my pics up and I am starting to believe him! I went to a free dusk shoot with the IoP there a while ago and I took my pics with jpeg & raw so I will have a fiddle around with them to see what changes I can make.
I turned it off after that session though as it was a little bit too much too soon (it was my first time really using the camera my friend who I went with had to show me how to change the ISO setting :oops: ) but I think I have come a LONG way since then I even know how to use the live view (believe me I am a SLOW LEARNER!!!)
It’s gas though I look at everything if a different light now wondering what it would be like behind the lens!
fionawysecrilly wrote:
It’s gas though I look at everything if a different light now wondering what it would be like behind the lens!
This is normal! I’m only at this about 10 months myself and I’m still at the same crack. I even shape my fingers into the shape of a viewfinder sometimes and look through to see what something might lok like through the camera!! You’ll also start seeing things around where you have lived all your life that you never even noticed before! I’m from Kerry myself and had never been to Dingle till a few months ago even though it’s only 40 miles from my house. How sad is that :)
Anyway, the best thing ou can do is take in as much info as possible. The internet will tell you all you need to know on how to work your camera. It’s up to you to get out then and experiment with what you learn. There is no wrong way to do anything, just another way!!
I hear ya I am from Bray, Co Wicklow orginally and there are just 100’s of places that I want to drive to now to get the camera out, I never fully appreciated them until now! My friends always laugh cos I keep my small casio in my handbag at all times but it’s good to know I am in the company of people who think this is standard practice!
I have been on the net since 10.30am this morning so I think I have taken in enough info for today, my eyes are going square! :)
Talk soon Fi
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