Using what I learned (pic)

Here is something I learned from the nikon ebook. I come from a technical background, so I am literally learning photography for the first time. This means that many of the compositional suggestions and lighting suggestions mean a great deal to me. I have been watching this in my neighbors yard for a few days and new I had to take this pic. This is a picture of a flowering cherry tree. The interesting thing about this is the flowers are pure while. However, you will see quite a different color in my photo. This was taken at sunset and there was a much different, and quite striking color in my opinion.

Very nice. How did you do it?

Denise
CP5700

I wish I could take credit for it. But that one was God's creation. All I did was notice the change in color due to the setting sun's light and took the picture. I was referring to recommendations in ebook about using morning or evening sun for pictures.

CP5700 taken as a NEF. +.01 on exposure compensation to lighten it up a bit. Other than that, pretty much all auto.

Denise Wall said:

Very nice. How did you do it?

Denise
CP5700

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Lovely pic of flowers in different lighting.

If you can't get that lighting naturally, I've obtained it with my 775 using the sunset setting. Colors change from normal to a soft peach light, as in your photo. But real is better.

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Dan,

Beautiful flowers....I like #2 the best, the colors are very subtle.

One suggestion....the file sizes are almost 500kb apiece...try to keep them in the 100kb region....it's no big deal to us guys that have fast cable/dsl, but to our dialup brethern these would take forever to load. Best is probably use the Save for web feature in photoshop.

nice shots and keep sharing them...brightens my day
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dandanfireman said:

I wish I could take credit for it. But that one was God's
creation. All I did was notice the change in color due to the
setting sun's light and took the picture. I was referring to
recommendations in ebook about using morning or evening sun for
pictures.

CP5700 taken as a NEF. +.01 on exposure compensation to lighten it
up a bit. Other than that, pretty much all auto.

Click to expand...

dandanfireman said:

Denise Wall said:

Very nice. How did you do it?

Denise
CP5700

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Cinematographers and National Geographic Magazine photographers do much, if not most of their warm-mood scenes at the day's two "golden hours." The light angle, added warmth and feeling of comfort near dawn and sunset reach out from the images in a subtle but authentic way.

Perhaps its a little of the Ancient Egyptian in my DNA, but those two times seem to connect with me. I just wish I would get up earlier more often for the first...

-iNova
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