Digital photos of snow, sand and surf - using white to your advantage
Happy New Year.
In keeping with a Southwest winter theme...
(Yes, it snows here we just had a record 30 inches in two days.)
I want to share a photograph.
It's an image I caught quite by accident:
(don't forget to hit the back arrow on your browser to return)http://mydigitalphotographytips.com/Silent_White.jpg
There are a three main reasons the photo looks the way it does. I:
* drove 100 miles up some slippery roads after a snow storm.
* took several shots of each area I liked and chose the best one.
* used a little filtering in Photoshop.
This photo was recently sent to my subscribers as part of my newsletter bonus. In it I discussed how the snow drift's color blends into the white background at the bottom left.
The snow is so white that when printed it will become part of the paper surrounding it.
I like the way that breaks up the square-boxiness of a photograph, the way it bleeds out.
Whether you live in the snow or sand see if you can pick up a segment of white somewhere along the border of your image.
Get my drift? It may even be a big white wave that comes crashing through your photo.
What my subscribers don't know yet is I'm going to tell them which filter I used to get the look of a wood cut. And later on I'll demonstrate manipulating objects to pop out of a sand dune or a snow bank.
The ideas are limited only by one's imagination.
If it sounds simple that's because it really is.
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Have a happy holiday season,
Ruth
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