tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359332482024-03-05T13:26:43.093-08:00AD PhotographyAD Photography is a Wedding and Portrait Studio on the Central Coast and Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. We offer reliable Wedding Photography and Family photos as well as video. We service Greater Sydney, Hunter Valley, Newcastle and Central Coast.
Please visit our website for more information: www.adphotography.com.auAD Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14775833626255799668noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35933248.post-20856054083894253092014-07-07T05:46:00.000-07:002014-07-07T05:50:20.030-07:00When a Wedding gets drenched in Rain I always regarded myself as the good weather provider for weddings to the point that I was joking with my clients that hiring me ensures great weather on your special day. In fact I had only 2 weddings in over 8 years that had rain and only one that was rained out to the point that we could not leave cover without being drenched within seconds. So far a pretty good track record until I met Liz and Matthew.<br />
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Liz and Matthew got married in the beautiful <a href="http://www.palmdalegroup.com.au/greenway.asp">Greenway Garden</a> in Greenpoint on the Central Coast. This venue was a last minute change that Liz decided on. Maybe it was a nudge of intuition to change from the all outside venue in Ourimbah Campus to one with a sizable Chapel.<br />
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The morning was grey and when I arrived at <a href="http://www.terrigalsails.com.au/">Sails in Terrigal</a> it started to rain. Not the usual drizzle, but real horrible rain with wind gusts and cold wetness all over the coast. However, this horrible weather did not dampen the mood of the Wedding Party who were having a ball.<br />
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As the photographer on the job, however, I had to do a bit of extra thinking as all the nice location shots that I had planned with the couple fell virtually in the water. Instead we had to do with what we could in and around the chapel of the gardens.<br />
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One image that couple definitely wanted was with them in front of the Bell Tree in the Garden. This shot was important because of their last name - Bell. It was impossible to shoot this on the day. We all would've been wet and miserable let alone the photo wouldn't have been nice at all.<br />
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Thanks to Photoshop, however, we can make the magic happen as you can see in the photo above. I went back the Monday after the wedding when the sun came out and took a photo of the Bell tree and transferred the couple from a different shot into the photo that was requested.<br />
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So yet again Photoshop saved the day, but what can we learn from this experience? Always have a Plan B in place that ensures that you and your Guests are not swept away in Stormwater floods and have a second set of photo locations handy that will give enough photo opportunity and backdrops for us to use as wedding photos. In this case I was somewhat limited in what I could do on the day, but helped myself with some creative alternative.<br />
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Hope this helps you with your planning - Good Luck and dry Weather. :)<br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A Wedding Dress in most cases is a very unique garment that most Brides </span>wear only once in their lifetime. In the olden days people would get <span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the dress cleaned after the Wedding and put away smothered in Moth </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Balls. Often the Wedding Dress would be handed down a generation or </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">two or would be destroyed in some natural disaster.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In the last few years a new trend emerged that offered a simple </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">solution: Trash the dress? Trash he dress is a fantastic photo </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">opportunity where you and the photographer can get creative and create</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The upside off trashing the dress is that you get some really amazing </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">images to add to your Wedding album and you do not store the dress for </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">decades, not to mention that you will have to move every time you </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">change address.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Let's be honest will you ever wear the dress ever again? However, call </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">me old fashioned, stingy or just sentimental to me trashing a </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">beautiful dress that cost hundreds and thousands of dollars seems to</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">What are the alternatives if we don't want to go traditional and drag </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the thing through life? For starters there is always eBay or similar </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">local sites such as Gumtree were we can auction the dress or sell it </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">outright. This way the dress comes to good use and helps another bride </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to save a few dollars. There are also specialised sites such as </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.prelovedpanache.com/">www.prelovedpanache.com</a> or </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.idogowns.com.au/">www.idogowns.com.au</a></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">where you an sell either</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> locally or globally.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">If you do not want the hassle of selling, donating the dress to one of the Charities or to a Charity shop such as St Vincent De Paul or Salvation Army is a nice way to help some less fortunate people in need. </span><br />
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You have been with your partner for some time now and you are so deeply in love that you want to continue into eternity and never stop feeling this way. Now is the time to think of the future and to take the next step and propose to the one and only person who you want in your life forever.<br />
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<b>Romantic Dinner Proposal</b><br />
When you propose you need to make the decision whether you want to make it a public affair or have a more intimate moment with you and your partner when asking the big question. In the end proposing to marry someone is a very intimate moment between 2 people and what could be better than the traditional romantic dinner. Find a lovely restaurant that is not too busy and that both of you like and ask the question.<br />
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How much preparation you want to put in is up to you. There are many good Ideas that you can combine into this traditional form of proposal. Find a few great videos a bit further down or check out You Tube.<br />
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<b>The Get Away</b><br />
Whisking your love away from daily life over a weekend is a great date to start with. A beautiful setting in a nice hotel, bed and breakfast or even camping changes your mood from "Day to Day" routine to something special automatically. Whatever you and your partner fancy the most make a booking and pop the question while there.<br />
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<b>Special Date Proposals</b><br />
There are many special dates that are just perfect for proposals. As a couple you might have a special day of your own. Something like the day you first laid eyes on your partner or the day you first kissed are great days to propose on. Other popular days are Christmas, Easter, Hanuka and of course Valentine's Day.<br />
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I proposed to my wife on Christmas day. I bought a beautiful ring, a Teddy and a nice box to put it in. Then I sewed the ring to the Teddy's collar like a piece of jewelry and packed it as a Christmas present. In the Christmas card I popped the question. She was a bit taken back getting a Teddy wasn't her kind of Christmas Present and she didn't find the ring at first although it was right in front of her. Anyway, 15 years later still a great memory.<br />
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<b>Fancy Idea Proposals</b><br />
My Idea with the Teddy is certainly different to just getting on your knee with a ring in your hand and then because of Arthritis not getting back up. (Make note: Depending on your age certain ideas might not be suitable :). There are many more really great ideas like using a caricaturist drawing a picture of you and your partner with the question on it; a sky writer; newspaper ads and so on. You can find many great ideas <a href="http://theknot.ninemsn.com.au/engagement/proposal/popping-the-question/marriage-proposals-50-romantic-ways-to-propose" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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<b>Singing Proposals</b><br />
There are many songs that are about marriage proposals. If you love singing and don't mind standing in front of a few people performing a singing proposal can be really special. You could use your next trip to the Karaoke Bar for your proposal or you could get the mike of a DJ in the Nightclub with some background music supporting your effort or you could go acapella in a restaurant or at a party.<br />
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Some word of caution. Whilst you love singing you might not be particularly good at it. It can be very cute and it might make you all the more lovable, but it can backfire. So make sure you rehearse well.<br />
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<b>Public Proposals</b><br />
Singing proposals are one form of going public when you ask your big question. There are many others such as sporting events, billboards, theatrical performances or even TV Shows. A proposal like this is something that you and your partner will never forget. However it comes with some risks as you can see in the next video about epic proposal fails.<br />
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I am not a big fan of public proposals and let me tell you why. Firstly it is not everybody's thing to stand and perform in front of a crowd. Unless your partner is kind of an extrovert this is not such a great idea. Secondly, you are putting your partner in the spotlight. You must understand that this is quite a substantial change to your and your partner's life that they might not be able to answer straight away. It took my wife a day to make up her mind.<br />
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What are they supposed to do when being put on the spot? Saying no requires a lot of courage in front of a crowd. So you are really pressuring them into something they might not be ready for yet or haven't thought about. Make absolutely sure that your partner shares your feeling about a life together before you go down this path.<br />
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<b>Make it Special for Your Partner</b><br />
When making the decision on how to propose firstly think about your partner. Make it special for them. All too often we forget this very simple fact. For example: I love camping, but my wife is more of a Five Star kind of girl. So going camping might not be the best solution, but whisking her to a nice Bed & Breakfast in Kangaroo Valley might be a better option.<br />
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<b>Ring or No Ring</b><br />
<b>Traditional wedding proposals </b>where a man proposes to a woman usually have a ring involved. I think in these cases buying a nice ring is appropriate for the occasion. However, in these days selecting an engagement ring might be something that you might want to make a joined experience after she said yes. That way she can pick a ring that she likes. After all she will be wearing it for a long time. In this case you could buy something different that can remind her of this special occasion eg Pandora Jewelry or something funny that has meaning to you both. In any case keep the receipt for the ring if you do not hit her taste.<br />
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<b>Should you Get a Photographer</b><br />
Your wedding proposal is a special occasion that you might want to capture with video and photography. There are many <b><a href="http://www.adphotography.com.au/" target="_blank">good wedding photographers</a></b> and <b><a href="http://adphotography.com.au/sydneyweddingphotographers/info.php" target="_blank">wedding videographers</a></b> that can help you with this professionally. Just contact them and they can help you with a video production like the one in the next movie.<br />
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<b>Despite the many failed proposals on You Tube most proposals have a happy ending and are moment in your life you will never forget. Enjoy the moment!</b><br />
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In a sand ceremony the Groom and Bride both let sand flow in a common container. The sand can be normal fine beach sand or more common today is coloured sand. The sand represents the life stream of one person <br />
that from now on forms a unified stream by mixing the flowing sand with the partner's life stream. Often this ceremony is used as replacement for the lighting of the unified candle a tradition often seen in Christian church ceremonies. <br />
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This is certainly one of the more interesting entrances of the bridal party that I have seen in my years as one of the <a href="http://www.adphotography.com.au/galleries/15_CentralCoastWeddingPhotographers/" target="_blank">Central Coast Wedding Photographers</a>. I am sure there was a lot practicing required in order to coordinate a Bridal Party of 16.<br />
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How many? 16? The question here really is: How many is too many in the bridal party? The answer to this question is really up to your personal taste. If you think the more the merrier and your budget allows the frocks, dresses and accessories for a complete soccer team - Go for It!<br />
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However, more often than not it comes down to the issue that brides to be are not able to say No. It is probably the hardest thing to decide who shall have the honour to be walk with you on your special day. There are many friendships that you would like to honour with a spot in your bridal party, but when do you have to say no and how best can you do it?<br />
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Many friendships went into a dipper over this very question. I remember when I got married we were on a strict budget with a beautiful but small venue. As a result we had to say no to many people and one of my wife's friends became quite cross not be invited. As a result she wasn't speaking to my wife for a couple of years.<br />
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Unfortunately, this a fact of life. The first approach is always to talk to the friends that you know expect to be included and discuss the issue that you are having. Most true friends will always be understanding that you do not have an open wallet and you will have to make the decision for limited spots.<br />
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Secondly, whilst including someone in your bridal party is a special acknowledgement of the friendship you share it is not the only way you can let your friends know how much you appreciate them. For example you can include them in your wedding planning adventure, invite them to bridal showers and of course the hens night and let them be part of the fun.<br />
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Some friends might be craving to help so you can create little jobs and special responsibilities that they might want to do. Invite them along when you go out looking for dresses, <a href="http://adphotography.com.au/" target="_blank">wedding photographers</a> or <a href="http://www.cherishedcelebrants.com/" target="_blank">celebrants</a>.<br />
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If after all your friend does not support you the question is how good a friend the really are. In any case most of the time little disappointments heal over. In the case of my wife and her friend the issue lasted a while and they are back to sharing a great friendship. Life is like this, so don't be afraid to say <b>NO</b>. <br />
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Wedding Disasters are something I have seen in my 8 years as a <a href="http://adphotography.com.au/" target="_blank">Wedding Photographer in Sydney</a>. There are the most fascinating glitches that can stress out the a bride or give the mother of the bride a heart attack.<br />
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Most of the little pitfalls are less harmful then the one in this movie. I have seen the groom not fitting in his shirt, Groomsmen totally drunk and disorderly before the ceremony, groomsmen forgetting their shoes or even their trousers.<br />
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At my wedding the weather was questionable so I left my mobile on to talk to my wife in case of executing Plan B if it rains. Big mistake in the middle of the Vows the bloody thing went off. A friend from Germany wanted to congratulate. He certainly was the first to do so :)<br />
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All pretty funny when you think about it later but very stressful or embarrassing at the time. The result is that brides and grooms get stressed on top of the normal stresses of a wedding such as ceremonies and speeches.<br />
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Most of this can be avoided easily by planning and organising the event properly. I always suggest that you hire someone for the day who is the go to person for all issues questions and everything that needs organising. Whilst most brides today organise their weddings themselves which I think is a lot of fun they end up being the sole focal point for any organisational questions on the day. Try to avoid that.<br />
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The great tool that you can use is a <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.evwe.eventweddingplanner" target="_blank">Wedding Planning App</a>. The eVWe Planner is one of the best wedding planning apps that you find on the Android Market. The app comes with very comprehensive checklist and tasks that you should consider and lets you manage your Guests and Suppliers.<br />
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The best feature is a very strong budgeting tool that is more like a financial report of how much money you can spend, what your budget is and how you actually spend it. As soon as you shortlist, book or pay a supplier the budget sheet is automatically updated which takes all the pain out of managing your financial committment.<br />
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The other great thing about <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.evwe.eventweddingplanner" target="_blank">Event and Wedding Planner</a> is that yu do not through it away after your wedding is complete. You can organise any type of event with it; whether you organise a birthday party, a ball, a charity event, a marketing or sales conference or larger concerts or Corporate events you can re-use the app and the data that you gathered such as long standing supplier relationships.<br />
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You can find out more on the <a href="http://www.evwe.net/" target="_blank">eVWe Event and Wedding Planning Website - www.evwe.net</a> or you can download the app from Google Play under <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.evwe.eventweddingplanner" target="_blank">Event and Wedding Planners.</a> AD Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14775833626255799668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35933248.post-27757767465260055932013-12-08T04:20:00.001-08:002014-05-24T16:05:26.700-07:00eVWe Planner Tutorial - Organising a Wedding<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/lqkmyycWU6o" width="480"></iframe><br />
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The eVWe Planner is an awesome tool to organise weddings and events of any type. It has some great features that allow you to setup a Todo List, Budgets and manage your guests and supplier relationships.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">In my previous blog about the off camera flash <a href="http://adphotoart.blogspot.com/2011/10/off-camera-flash-or-how-to-add-spice-to.html">(read more here)</a> I mentioned I would take the photo of the original scene and use other photoshop techniques to improve it. Here is the original image for you to have a look at.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJ2mSfHRrn1qtGPEsCCVeb_0cpziB2zXSKNhv-kxbxXmf7zy8Ez0jgry4_670wpKFHggn9gNnoDIPUIVrokHX905S2WNhCduZMgtUr-YYqUSSXI7Gj-hsRVIa1RS-uABgEzM2RA/s1600/_1111251.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJ2mSfHRrn1qtGPEsCCVeb_0cpziB2zXSKNhv-kxbxXmf7zy8Ez0jgry4_670wpKFHggn9gNnoDIPUIVrokHX905S2WNhCduZMgtUr-YYqUSSXI7Gj-hsRVIa1RS-uABgEzM2RA/s320/_1111251.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As you can see it is a bit dark and also very flat. To improve the image I decided to use some HDR (high dynamic range) technique. High dynamic range is a technique whereby we use images with different exposure values of the same scene and overlay /combine them into one photograph.</div><div class="MsoNormal">If you want to use the technique you require multiple images of the same scene with different exposures. You can either use your tripod and take multiple images using your bracketing function on your camera or use manual exposures. I recommend at least one f-stop apart and a minimum of 5 images. This will give you darker images when the image is underexposing as well as some high key images that are overexpose. </div><div class="MsoNormal">The idea is that we exposure all part of the image correctly and get the colour range for all areas including the shadows in the correct exposure.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The technique that I was using is slightly different. As I am shooting raw I can change the image exposure in Photoshop or Lightroom. So I created 4 virtual copies of the same image in Lightroom and changed the exposure compensation to -1, 0 , 1, 2, 3. I then exported the images into Photomatix a HDR software tool that integrates with Lightroom. </div><div class="MsoNormal">You can also use Photoshop's HDR function, but I prefer Photomatix which has a lot better controls. Here is the result of the HDR transition.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBuqcm7BnFu-2_F2sNld0GdlmfiaGqH6c3EaZaMb7aWzouBBXR6UF03g6FLurWwq68XPob8UPjGwPSprld4Svhg05s4iytsl9PnXR5DgIfgkGvy0dQaoLMWfgOof9IcltpteQ8Hw/s1600/_1111251____.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBuqcm7BnFu-2_F2sNld0GdlmfiaGqH6c3EaZaMb7aWzouBBXR6UF03g6FLurWwq68XPob8UPjGwPSprld4Svhg05s4iytsl9PnXR5DgIfgkGvy0dQaoLMWfgOof9IcltpteQ8Hw/s320/_1111251____.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">The advantage of using the Lightroom technique is that the image is the same for all images. The technique with the tripod and the bracketing has the disadvantage that anything that is moving in the image such as clouds will blur in the combined HDR image. </div><div class="MsoNormal">As you can see with the image above we go t already a nice image that has a fair bit of detail quite nice colours and the shadows are reduced. I did not like the image in this format too much because as with many images in the forest the detail in the brush creates too much clutter in the image. </div><div class="MsoNormal">So with a vignette and maybe a bit of grain I might be able to give the image a bit more structure and and reduce the clutter. I started off with a black vignette, but for this image I did not feel I wanted to do this again. Instead I decided on a white vignette with low opacity and quite a large size.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC7O5Ge7LPjvrEcIgmacPyCLgtiEHGAO34w5vpRVYv9W8pLPgrnLX5VQCyPd-XXS0xUwvHvjmicw_i-FNTQJ02_rn4zthMcx6xM-hNn5WxyQGGxrdAETHvfj9cwTAMUjT7QGB8CA/s1600/_1111251____-Edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC7O5Ge7LPjvrEcIgmacPyCLgtiEHGAO34w5vpRVYv9W8pLPgrnLX5VQCyPd-XXS0xUwvHvjmicw_i-FNTQJ02_rn4zthMcx6xM-hNn5WxyQGGxrdAETHvfj9cwTAMUjT7QGB8CA/s320/_1111251____-Edit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This is bringing tree and the bridge more in the foreground and it looks now as if there is a bit of fog. I use Colour Efex filters for this sort of technique. You can also create a Curves layer above your image and use the lasso selection tool to create a selection around the image. Make it uneven to make it look more natural. You then refine the edges of the selection to a high feather value such as 45 or 50. Last but not least you create a mask on the curves layer which than creates your vignette if you made the selection before hand.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I hope this little article helps you and inspires you to get into HDR photography. At my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.352039213363.153373.38701893363&type=3">Facebook album for HDR</a> you can see other HDR examples. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Achim Drescher is the principal photographer at AD Photography. <a href="http://www.adphotography.com.au/">Click here</a> to find out more. </div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">The radio trigger is quite cool you simply connect the transmitter to the hotshoe of your camera <span> </span>and connect the Speedlight to the <span> </span>receiver and of you go. Now the Speedlight is connected to the camera as if the Speedlight is mounted <span> </span>directly to the camera. I use an old Velbon tripod as my light stand, but will probably invest in a Manfrotto Nano soon to use as a light stand. Main reason is that the Nano can be extended to 1.90m and is lighter than the tripod.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">One technique that I use is bouncing the light from a wall. I use the Lastolite 80/20 which gives you some (20%) direct light to fill and bounces the rest from the ceiling or a wall. I love it because as a Solo Wedding Photographer this device is not bigger than a bounce card and weight is an issue when you carry your gear for 12 hours.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Since I got the trigger I did some test shots and the one shot that I would like to use for this Blog to demonstrate the power of off camera flash<span> </span>is a photo that I took at our last camping trip. I got up at around 6am and walked to this bridge. The photo below was the first straight shot I took when arriving at the scene with no flash.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTdCFiFlsdUDrVtHdeJp6iDFC6V_fV78UR7W2KinqQWyWjXvFlpplZkN0JlLqgTX16TXP_kgWYrW1ZdgUNhb5aE7Ivubz4-z1AgHQhQPHamfubLLbEijn8tcfZzkt0C-Z56NBa1g/s1600/_1111251.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTdCFiFlsdUDrVtHdeJp6iDFC6V_fV78UR7W2KinqQWyWjXvFlpplZkN0JlLqgTX16TXP_kgWYrW1ZdgUNhb5aE7Ivubz4-z1AgHQhQPHamfubLLbEijn8tcfZzkt0C-Z56NBa1g/s320/_1111251.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">A nice scene with the river and the bridge over it. The problem was this location is in a very narrow valley no sunlight is yet touching the scene.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The result is that the image looks somewhat flat. Have a look at the main subject the tree. Because most light is coming from the clearing over the water this side of the tree is in the shadow. This makes the photo look dull and the tree is not perceived as the main subject. The lighter bridge is taking over and pulls our focus away from the tree. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">We can fix this in the darkroom to an extend and I will use this image for another blog to show you some tricks in Photoshop to fix this up, but here we want to first enhance the image in camera with some additional light. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihWJ48NRDAjpblWhthWg4UceqBM1T3NCg6kBTIIQBpMQ0yzS32upU31paIfx4QOmsuwlCLiDYOO6S3IirZuIS3xnhyphenhyphenYQ1Xemdw3VfPhLD-E7-ktuAIFLdJhNnqJ-MW82iFlS_Tew/s1600/_1111256.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihWJ48NRDAjpblWhthWg4UceqBM1T3NCg6kBTIIQBpMQ0yzS32upU31paIfx4QOmsuwlCLiDYOO6S3IirZuIS3xnhyphenhyphenYQ1Xemdw3VfPhLD-E7-ktuAIFLdJhNnqJ-MW82iFlS_Tew/s320/_1111256.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">To do so I placed the Flash to the left of the tree and of course remotely triggered it. The result of this exercise is shown in the next image without any manipulation.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As you can see the scene has changed quite dramatically. The tree is now lit better and also we have some spill light on the rocks below, which quite nicely continues the line across the image created by the bridge. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">There is a nice shadow cast in the rough surface of the tree that gives it some nice texture and models the tree stump with light. So with a little bit of flash light I was able to light up the scene and now the focus is on the Main subject as which gives the <span> </span>scene some depth.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Straight out of the camera this is already quite nice. I played further with some other angles, because the background is quite busy. However, in post production I found that the focus was not on the tree any more.<span> </span>So I decided to keep this angle.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Now these days we can improve an image further with applying some simple adjustments in our image manipulation software. I use Adobe Lightroom for most of the basic adjustments and only use Photoshop if I want to get fancy.<span> </span>The next version of the image is my lightroom adjusted version.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I made the following adjustments:</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8eGeDAi15DYz5_RyyT_s59q4f1n1x1kACy6rIVBHA2_FhGrWbo5QHqfj2WiXNK7Hg1MrwlCNpvfQwWojqZVtDNBZAZvHEiiX3CrCn0dC1_0t9IPbPfkgz8mK63YGP-ovfVjIPlg/s1600/_1111256-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8eGeDAi15DYz5_RyyT_s59q4f1n1x1kACy6rIVBHA2_FhGrWbo5QHqfj2WiXNK7Hg1MrwlCNpvfQwWojqZVtDNBZAZvHEiiX3CrCn0dC1_0t9IPbPfkgz8mK63YGP-ovfVjIPlg/s400/_1111256-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Contrast: up to about 80</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Temperature: <span> </span>Warmer</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Exposure: up</li>
<li><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: small;">\</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Symbol;"> </span></span>Clarity: up</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Vibrance: up</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Saturation: up</li>
<li><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Symbol;"> </span></span>HSL:</li>
<ul><li> Greens: down</li>
<li> Yellow, Red, Orange: Up</li>
</ul><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Sharpening: up / masking</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Post Crop Vignette</li>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">I love the sharpening tool in Lightroom because of its masking function. Funny enough this is much easier to use than Photoshop. The masking allows me to sharpen the edges and leave the rest of the image untouched which is just the effect that I am after. You need to understand how sharpening works to fully appreciate what the masking is doing. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I cranked up the Saturation a fair bit. Every modern Landscape Photographer today is using very high Saturation setting in their images. Combined with some High Definition Range (HDR) techniques and a very high contrast setting the images get this special punch that you see in many photographs today. I had a close look at one of Ken Duncan's absolutely beautiful images and he had cranked saturation up to a point where some posterisation happened in parts of the image. The overall result is stunning so don't be a afraid to use the saturation slider.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Colour Temperature is another factor in the image. I like my images warmer. The extra yellow in the image improves the highlights and gives a warmer nicer mood. However, the effect needs to be carefully applied because if the complete image is made warmer it sometimes ends up having a yellow colour cast. This brings us to the point where we need to move the image into Photoshop where we can mask the effects and apply them to parts of the image.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So far I am already quite happy with the image, but there are still a few thinks I don't like. The background <span> </span>is too busy and also I was envisaging a dreamlike image maybe with some fog. So I have to leave Lightroom and use Photoshop. You can use any other imaging software. I am used to Photoshop after using it now for over 5 years. But Gimp a free open source system is pretty good too.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">First thing in Photoshop we always copy the background layer. This will give us the possibility to go back if we stuff it up. I also make heavy use of the snapshot feature. When I reach a point where I am reasonably happy I take a snapshot. You find this feature in the history view. Main reason is that Photoshop only keeps x amount of history steps and sometimes I overdo it and than cannot go back. This means I have to start from the beginning which is pretty annoying. Snapshots are good points in the process to go back to.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">First thing I did was to get rid of the clutter on the left side of the image. I did not like the trees there. I used the stamp tool to just remove it. "Stop", many will shout, " this is not right! <span> </span>As a photographer I should not change the scene." If I would be a purist photographer I would agree with you, but I regard myself as a Digital Artist and hence I use my artistic freedom to do to my images whatever I like. I also believe we should be using the tools that are at our disposal. Let's call that progress. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Next I increased the brightness and contrast using a curve layer and a brightness and contrast adjustment layer. I cropped the image differently. Normally I use Lightroom for cropping but I can control the vignette better in photoshop.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Still the image has too much detail so I am applying the Classical Softfocus filter from the Color Efex suite. You can achieve a similar result by creating a new copy of your current image in a new layer and apply some gausian blur. I used a layer mask to reduce or remove the effect in certain areas. In this image I cleaned the tree and the rocks which now are separated from the background even more. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So that is pretty much it. With the soft focus in the image I now have a more dreamlike look, but I also managed to reduce the clutter in the background.<span> </span>Here is the final product. You can clearly see where the Flash improved the scene and added light where it is needed.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Step 1</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o Note all the directories below are windows 7 and vista. Not sure where Adobe stores this stuff in Mac or other windows versions. You will have to dig around a bit to find it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o Go to Programfiles\Adobe\AdobeLightroam <your current version>\shared\webengines</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o Copy the directory with your preferred style to directory c:\users\<username>\appdata\roaming\adobe\lightroom\webgalleries</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o Rename the Directory to <something>.lrwebengine</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o Open the file <something>.lrwebengine\galleryInfo.lrweb in a text editor (dont use a word processor as it sometimes adds hidden characters and screws up the file - Notepad will do)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o Find the following tag: "title = LOC "$$$/AgWPG/Templates/HTML/Title=" and change the name to what you like to call the new style. Example: title = LOC "$$$/AgWPG/Templates/HTML/Title=AD Photography HTML Gallery"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o In the next line change the ID tag. I just added a 1 at the end. Example: id = "com.adobe.wpg.templates.jardinePro1",</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o Reboot Lightroom</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o In the webgallery you should now find a new Layout style with the name that you gave in the title tag</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o You know have a copy that you can customise</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Step2</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o Customise the file Head.html</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o This file contains the header, links to the style sheets and defines the basic page.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o The file contains code in the body that the Lightroom uses to generate the file.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o I updated the file with my background image.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o Moved the basic table framework including my common links to the rest of my webpage and the Javascript for my Menu into this file.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o I left all existing content intact except for the title and subtitles that I removed.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o I formatted the title in same way the rest of my website is formatted.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">o It is a bit fiddely to get the formatting right, but with a little bit of trial and error and regenerating the Gallery you can get this to work fine.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">See the end result at:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"> </span><a href="http://adphotography.com.au/weddingphotos/html/">http://adphotography.com.au/weddingphotos/html/</a>AD Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14775833626255799668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35933248.post-63892572183651214012007-10-20T10:46:00.001-07:002008-11-12T18:17:32.824-08:00The Rule of Thirds<div>Good photography is about composition or in other words how the different elements in the photo and the main subject are placed in the frame of the photograph.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>The Rule of Thirds is one of the most basic composition rules in photography. The principle behind it is that the frame of the photo is divided into 3 vertical and 3 horizontal sections of equal proportions. </div><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123484117670338498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUiJQpHsrx027_P6HkXpkGG4tR58meXv4pKG3LBnyQIIbNC-Mzj-07Ccom8XzoTWHDWVjUvDVTi1QKG_BWuxkmdGiHqQF0VjGfliINqId3i7_i7Ct-iz3oUFh1z42R8MrHiib6Aw/s400/DSC_9352TheladyThirdsSML.jpg" border="0" /></div><br /><p>The lines that separate the sections are the compositional <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">power lines</span> that can be used to create clarity that helps the eye interpreting the image. For example in a landscape photo the horizon could be moved to one of the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">power lines</span> instead of having it in the middle of the photo. This creates either the effect of wideness if more sky is shown or depth if the foreground gets the larger proportion of the frame.</p><p>The intersections of the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">imaginary</span> lines are called "Points of Power". It is good practice to move the main subject in the photo to one of the points of power. The main reason for this is that the eye in the quest of taking the image in breaks the photo into easier <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">digestible</span> parts and tries to identify the main information. It does that by finding the points of interest starting at the intersections of the imaginary lines. Hence the photographer can get the message easier across to the viewer if the main <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">subject</span> is at the point of power.</p><p>The photo above demonstrates this with "The Lady" being placed at the point of power. The viewer knows instantly even without reading the Product Label what this photo is all about. </p><p>The composition can be made even stronger when other lines in the photo point to the main subject as well. The eye follows the main lines when it takes the displayed information in. A line that is included in the composition should always lead towards the main subject. In this example the edge of the bonnet and the chrome linings all lead to the figure. This increases the weight of the main subject in the overall composition as the eye will always be guided back along the lines.</p><p>If you would like to see more examples please visit my website: <a href="http://www.achimdrescher.com/">www.achimdrescher.com</a></p><p> </p><p> </p>AD Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14775833626255799668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35933248.post-1160695848002393422006-10-12T16:18:00.000-07:002008-11-12T18:17:32.956-08:00How to paint with waterMovement in a still photos can easily be captured. Did you ever wonder how you get the milky effects in flowing or moving water that you can see on some landscape photos?<br /><br />It is all about exposure. The longer the exposure the more the water flowing by is creating a reflection captured by the camera. This is painting little dots of light that eventually form a washed out effect. The longer the exposure the more washed out the effect.<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123475974412345266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBhyhtCDg5STOSRjQrcAV5SeMukFUho88nIqrpt73E7Zz8lHGXXH1oDPkk2_gJ1O9e6LwSHmgBStWS5Vt2S4_QfF4_Rb37S-rxYl23irHBhY6u0z4d90UiAgbzMBkhavTGPjyEDw/s320/DSC9812T2PanoThredboRiverSml.jpg" border="0" /><br />You just need a good tripot, a remote shutter release and off you go. In low light you can use exposure times of 1 or more seconds that will give you this unreal result. Experiment a little. Especially with a digital camera you can play with differerent settings. If light is too bright you can use 1 or more grey filters that lower the amount of light that goes through the lense.<br /><br />Have a look at my website for some examples of this effect: <a href="http://www.achimdrescher.com/">http://www.achimdrescher.com/</a>AD Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14775833626255799668noreply@blogger.com0