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Name: Susan Zone 5 Charley's Girl Too/ HeHaw, HeHaw
Chelle you do an amazing job with your pics. You and I took a picture of a rose of sharon, double althea on the same day. When I saw your post I said forget it. You have a wonderful eye for getting a great shot. So grateful you share with us.
Susan -
Thank you so much for your kind words.
But don't say "forget it"...... Please! Your collages are amazing and thoroughly enjoyable. I've been a serious photography buff for maybe 30 years so I've had lots of practice with pix. Plus, I'm a bit obsessive/compulsive when I garden or play with pix, to me both are the ways I deal with my artistic impulses. That's one of the reasons I took so long to get a digital camera, I knew I'd be seriously unhappy if it didn't do what I needed it to do.
What kind of camera are you using?
Name: Susan Zone 5 Charley's Girl Too/ HeHaw, HeHaw
I had a nikon coolpix that I really liked and was fairly new. I put it in a safe spot when I was moving some furniture around for painting and after a year and a half of not being able to find the 'safe spot' I went out and bought a cheap vivatar digital camera. Really is junk but takes pictures. Focus is off pictures aren't sharp and clear. I gave a box of stuff to recycle and am now wondering if the good camera went to freecyle by mistake.
While I am having fun with the collages, none of the pictures are all that clear. Your flowers look like I could reach out and touch them and darn near smell them as well.
Yes, there's a big difference in what a camera can do. If the shot isn't clear to start with you're very limited in the final result. For the purpose of displaying pix here however, there are a few things you can do to get a pleasing result.
To me this pix isn't very clear, nor is it pleasing the way it's displayed. It can be made clearer in your photo editing program.
There is too much bright light which is fading the yellow in the bloom. Play with brightness/contrast until it looks like how you'd see it on a cloudy day in the garden with your eyes.
Okay. getting better, but could still maybe be a bit clearer. Play with sharpen.....not too much though or your subject will appear harsh. We just want what we see when we look at it in the garden, not a rock sculpture.
Compare the first to the last. Now we have a bloom pix displayed just like we might see it with the naked eye in the garden on an overcast day.
Here it is again.
