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slowlight

pictures

Jan 29, 2007 19:36

I took these pictures last week at the Hunter Valley. Thought they turned out OK.
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cregy January 29 2007, 10:42:14 UTC

yeah, nice one jay.

hbdeath January 29 2007, 14:58:33 UTC

Better than OK, I'd say. The fourth and fifth ones are really tremendous.

slowlight January 30 2007, 08:00:20 UTC

Thanks very much!

ironed_orchid January 29 2007, 15:08:38 UTC

Love the water lilies or whatever they are.

slowlight January 30 2007, 07:57:52 UTC

takk fyrir!

ironed_orchid January 30 2007, 10:16:12 UTC

ZOMG Icelandish!

slowlight January 30 2007, 10:38:27 UTC

já. ég tala svolitla íslensku. ég er að æfa mig :)

cregy January 30 2007, 00:22:45 UTC

looking at them again, i'd like to see the close-up ones without using the flash. the colours will be more vivid and natural, like in the water lily one, which is really good.

slowlight January 30 2007, 07:59:49 UTC

... which just goes to show how much I have to learn about this photography caper. I had the flash on because it was about 7pm, light was fading fast, and a storm was rolling in. That, and the fact I didn't know how to actually turn it off :/

I tried to take some pics of the approaching storm but I guess it takes a real art (or genius) to capture clouds well. They looked stunning to the eye but the photos were sub-par.

cregy January 30 2007, 09:53:32 UTC

find out how to turn the flash off. if you're using a little point and shoot digital, it should adjust to cater for the lack of light. i'd rather take a bad photo than use a flash, unless it's like patrick's, where you can regulate the direction and brightness and all that.

but you're halfway there, with good composition.

i'd ask christy for advice, but she'd tell us to stick our digital cameras where you should never have the need to take a photo.

slowlight January 30 2007, 10:41:52 UTC

Yeah, but Christy's one of a rare breed to do what she does with film. I couldn't even pretend to do that, so I'll stick with the digital. Will definitely work out how to turn off the flash, but even so, I don't think I'll ever be one of those people who labour over a frame - not because I don't think it's worth the time and/or effort, but rather because I don't really know what 'composition' is in terms of photography. It's nice of you to say that, but really, the photo of the rose is the only one of the six above where I actually 'framed' it. The others were little more than point and shoot, and actually, the last one was taken from a moving car with the window wound up.