Lesley made a fine point about the zebra picture below. At the time I took two photos, portrait and landscape, with and without ears. I chose the one without the ears simply for framing reasons, using the eye as a point of interest in a fuller frame, but it was really no better than the portrait.
So, as an exercise for anyone interested, I've created a web album with three pictures: the zebra portrait with ears, and two croppings I've made of it. I'm keen to see what else could be achieved with a really creative crop, if you can be bothered!
Pics are here.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Monday, January 15, 2007
Long lens in the butterfly room
Another one from the Zoo's (very lovely) butterfly house. I'm very happy with the close framing, and the composition is even OK, but I can't help thinking it's a bit ... green. The wings' hue is basically green, and only the red dot really stands out. Hmm, not sure. I partly really like it, and wonder if it's better than I think, and maybe the red spot is the reason. But mostly I think it's lacking something. Oh, how I wish I knew what the hell I was talking about.
Learning about black and white
I'd like to learn to make nice black and white shots. I have to do it in post-processing - the camera doesn't have a B&W setting that I can find - so it feels a bit like cheating, but still, I find this a pleasing image. I'm also beginning to learn the value of the histogram the camera can show me, in getting a good spread of tones. This isn't a hugely compelling subject but the image has come out with good strong contrast, and something about the composition is nice, although I'm not sure what, and I think it still needs something doing to it (cropping, perhaps), but I can't work that out either. I'll be content with it as it is, though.
Fauna down the long lens
From Melbourne Zoo, except the wild kookaburras, who we saw at the Children's Farm. Click on the pics for bigger versions, as with all images on these blogs.
Kaleidoscope
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