Nature Walk

Success! Technical difficulties resolved. Anyways, this post is about a recent nature walk I took, and the results:

These are just a few of the pictures I took obviously (the top one is my favorite). Yes, I know, the subject matter is very similar to most of my other recent stuff....Some might call it exactly the same....Dandelions, flowers, and leaves. What can I say, they look cool.


A Lesson in Value:

Today, I'd also like to talk about some art stuff. In particular, Color versus Value. This is just something I've noticed when working with photos of flowers and other colorful nature stuff. So, in keeping with the general format of explaining things, I'll explain what color and value are.

Ok, we all know what color is. It's red, yellow, green, blue, magenta, and all those other ones I don't need to mention. Different Hues are the different colors that we see. Value is essentially the amount of light or darkness in something. That's about it.

Now, the easiest way to differentiate color and value in photography is to greyscale an image. Take a look at these below!

With the daisy, the yellow center seems to be very vivid and bright, but looking at just the value in the greyscale image we see that the center is really almost as dark as the background! Looking at the leaf, you can clearly see the green and the redish color on the left, but on the right, there's no telling them apart. I just found it very interesting how all these bright colors found in nature change so much when you greyscale an image.

Ok, that's all for now.

Technical Difficulties

Sorry for the delay in new posts....but I seem to be having technical difficulties. I can't seem to put pictures into my post....and that's not very helpful seeing as how this is a photo-blog. So, this'll be my first post without pictures. Yep....Stay tuned for more technical difficulties.

101 Followers!

Also, cherries!

 

So, I meant to celebrate my breaking 100 followers on the last post, but I forgot.... So...happy 101 followers to me! 

As for these photos, the top one is obviously very different from the bottom two, and for good reason. They were taken about a year apart....The top one is new, the bottom two are from last summer.

The top one....I had to mess with a lot to get that kind of color, but I like how it turned out. I pretty much eliminated all the blue, which makes them very warm looking (it's surprising how much blue is in a picture of red fruit....). My only problem is I wish the edges of the cherries were a little more well defined--a little more sharp. 

The bottom two are also very different...the middle photo has the whole dark/light contrast thing going on, which I think makes up for the lack of riveting subject matter. The bottom one... I really like how sharp and crisp the leaves turned out, and I changed the color temperature to more warm...which obviously makes the photo feel more warm (which I like).

That's about it for these pictures..... I really love photographing fruit, because it has some great detail if you get in close (which seems to be a recurring trend for me...). I wish I could do more fruit....so maybe I will.

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