Sometimes shooting in automatic isn’t so bad–but I still like aperture priority more
Monday, March 17th, 2008When I only had a Canon point and shoot camera I stuck to Automatic and the presets for most of my pictures. Then I got into Program mode and started to play with white balance and such. With my D80, shot in auto a little bit, but pretty much started with aperture priority from the [...]
Cropping your pictures for maximum effect: part 2
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Last night I wrote about cropping pictures to bring that extra something out. Tonight my best friend had me over for dinner and I took some pictures of her birthday cake.
Basic, simple stuff, right? Okay I tried my usual odd angles thing, but I didn’t spend a lot of time on composition on them.
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Learning and edit better pictures with cropping and a prime lens
Monday, February 18th, 2008I’m not a newcomer to photography. From my first Polaroid One Step to my Kodak Disc to my first 35mm Pentax K-1000 to digital point and shoots to now my Nikon D80 DSLR I’ve used a lot of different cameras. My dad was an amateur photographer and took some great pictures too–I don’t have any [...]