I find horses (and donkeys) difficult subjects to shoot.
Their bodies are too long, easy to fail if not sharp at the right points.
Waiting for horses galloping in the wild or for a wide angle, I get (small) satisfactions by cropping tiny pieces of horses. Click and zoom to enjoy their hairiness.
Steep, uphill, bent and muddy
but no roots to keep us grounded:
we reach the sky … we fly!
Let’s say you had a wonderful day on the snow, though without too much sunlight. Most colours in your pictures look like 70s’ toilet paper (pale blue, pale green, pale brown and so on). Pity, you could have had so beautiful shape/contrast silhouette with those black trees, people and white snow background.
It is time to open your photo retouch software and pimp your snow day:
– convert to black and white
– choose maximum whites
– enhance the contrast with blacks
– level blacks and whites up
In this way you get real black and white pictures and not boring shadows of grey. Dare with dark blacks and white whites the more you can and let the atmosphere you enjoyed pop out of your art!
When talking about upper class parties, details are mostly relevant. On one side, peculiar dress code makes most of the event. Nevertheless, don’ forget dressing up times: they are the perfect overture to a real glamour party. Click here for the full reportage of the gorgeous Black&White party we joined yesterday night.
Just buy the Olympus Tough TG-1, set it on “iAuto” and shoot. The A.I. of this small camera works very well underwater. The fast f/2 lens let you have sharp pictures even in low light conditions, at least with static/slow subjects. The additional white LED gives macros brilliant colours.
Among the very few defects, colour vibrance quickly decreases in low lights, like probably with other underwater compact cameras. Big temperature differences (hot to cold) caused condensation on lens and LCD, however both disappearing in a few minutes. Last but not least, the three screws of the protective lens are not tough at all, being already rusty after a few weeks of use.
Judge the pictures we shot in Greece (Poros and Serifos) this summer holidays by clicking on this new portfolio gallery: deep blue!
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