Okay I think I am missing Alicia's weekly photography challenge. So I had to share this..
I recently finished reading two of Bryan F. Peterson's photography books. I read Understanding Exposure and Understanding Digital Photography. If you are a beginner, definitely get the Understanding Digital Photography. If you are ready for a little more advanced, check out the first one.
In one of the books, to be honest, I can't remember which... he talked about how to take a picture of a sunset. In order to do this you need to be shooting in Manual mode, don't be scared you can do it! When you take a picture of a sunset, you probably think, hey aim at the sunset and shoot. If you do you will get something like this
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Sure if you got the first one you could adjust the color during photo editing, but why not shoot it right the first time.
And then I did some cropping to get ride of so much gray cloud and got this.
To really see the difference click on the pictures to enlarge them.
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Have fun taking pictures, just get out there and try things. When I was taking these pictures, I didn't just take these three, I took seven! But that is the beauty of digital.
Oh these are wonderful!! I love the colors and the different things you did.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking I might post some pics too - I am also missing the challenge.
Thanks for sharing these - beautiful!!
Hugs, Sarah
Beautiful pictures. I need to get busy.
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