Tag: Landscape
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Can A Filter Do it?
To answer this you must think back to the film days. Could it do it then? No? Well it probably won’t now – at least it won’t if you screw it on the front of your lens. Whatever you mount can only degrade the image in some particular way. You’ll then have to supply the…
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You Cannot Argue With The Horizon
It has been here a lot longer than you, knows what it is doing, and will easily outlast you. Make friends with it, and treat it with some respect. We have all seen the seascape or landscape photo with the tilted horizon – often in our own photographs. The landscape ones are harmless enough, but…
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Stressing Your Point Of View
This is best done by making everyone else conform to it. Then they can be stressed, too. If you are a successful photographer you have an opportunity to be a leader in the art. But you need not lead people in good directions. You can lay false trails, remove signposts, and cause your would-be rivals…
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Scolding Nature
That’s scolding Mother nature, not just having a scolding nature. The former is done by many artistic photographers – the latter is just the attitude of the latest actress to be thrown onto the world stage. I suspect she’s practicing for politics or step-motherhood… But back to the photos. If you are a landscape or…
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The EVF Comes Of Age
The EVF – electronic viewfinder – is a solid feature of many mirror-less, bridge, and compact cameras. It has been developed to such an extent these days that it is, in many respects, the preferred form of framing aid for digital work. The DSLR boys will point out rightly that it is always a little…
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The Landscape Artist Speaks
And what does he say? “Aaaaaarrrgh! My leg/back/fingers/feet/skin/wallet! They’re broken/sore/cold/wet/missing! Aaaaaarrrgh! ” About the only painful thing that a landscape photographer misses out on in comparison to a studio shooter is the opportunity to clothesline themselves on a sync cord in a darkened room. In every other division of misery they have the game won. The…
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Dehaze, Boss, Dehaze…
I can’t stop thinking about the little guy in Fantasy Island…It’s a fantasy… Well, today’s fantasy is about a new feature I found in my new editing program. When my computer died I needed to get fresh hard discs and fresh software. I had a chance to move from the three different editing programs that…