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Getting out in the snow over the last two days. Pretty. Cool. Photography. Just a small varied selection of many taken. The rest will be in one of my facebook albums.

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[rhetoricians]

I love #2 and #5. How do you get those effects? Not that I can do it on my shitty point-and-shoot but I'm curious anyway.

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Most of these and all of the London set were taken with a shitty point and shoot that is hardly working, in that it's worn out and won't read the light correctly any more, but sometimes it does. I think 4 of this set were taken with the big DSLR.

No special effects at all. This is how the camera saw the snow. Sometimes the flash went off which makes the snow whiter and blobbier, but I couldn't control that with the p & s as it has a mind of its own. All I did was some very small tweaking, which could be done on any editing prog like Picnik, like a bit of contrast, and a small bit of saturation here and there, and upped the exposure where necessary, but nothing major.

Picnik has a featured snow effect that I just played with as I was editing something else, but it can't create the randomness of the real thing.

As the teacher I wish I had, said: "It isn't the camera, it's the eye behind it that matters .. and some luck sometimes". Your camera can make pictures like these, even a phone camera can. Try it!

[aellia]

Burger Star looks welcoming and I love the fuzzy one!
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[onlineoffline]

Yes, it was cold! But fun and exhilarating to be out in it doing something fun.

[xoesotericox]

My favorites are the moon behind the trees pictures. ♥

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Thank you. I wish I had a bigger lens so that the moon would look more like the moon and less like a blob! But with what I have, that's the biggest I can get it.

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:)