Of People and Nuts

I got myself Picasa 3 about a week ago and I'm starting to like it a little. Lots of features and options but lacks in certain areas. Not too much of a drawback because I could always revert back to my windows photo editor for that.

Anyways, I covered another event the other day(under very unstrategic circumstances) which involved a mock modelling competition. The event was a little too over-the-top for my taste but the lighting(though a little dodgy at times) was pretty good. With a little tweeking, I was able to level out the brightness and contrast but it was at the expense of noise. -_-"


Very blur, I know. But there wasn't much that could be done for this picture. I could have sharpened it more but that would make the noise more pronounced which would degrade the photograph. I had the ISO at 400(or was it 800? o_O)

This is a lovely photo(in my opinion anyway). Cropping it to fit the "model" was perfect because not only did it give more focus on her character and emphasise her height more it also gave the photo a more spacious and free view. It would have been better if I adjusted the aperture to a smaller degree but I'm an SLR noob and haven't really figured out how to do that on manual settings. -_-"





Well, I've had some time for macro this year. Have abandoned it for a bit now.

These two are pictures of cashew nuts in a jar (hence the somewhat "tunnel vision" effect on this one). Definitely an easy subject to shoot. I used a flash to make the photo sharper and pick up the details on the cashews(which by the way were slightly burnt around the edges). Not a very impressive photo in colour but turned out pretty good in monochrome (with a slightly off-set colour hue). Looked really flat as a Black and White photo.



Same cashews same jar; different angle. And this time without a flash. Picture is still pretty good but after turning it into a more-or-less sepia, I realised the picture had taken on a slightly reddish colour. Not really happy with it. I'm still trying to figure out how to neutralise it. Maybe I should go on Windows editor.


Right....now these aren't cashews(DUH!). They're eggs in a bird's nest. Not very happy with this photo mainly because of the focus which is a little off. The aperture was to wide and I wasn't able to focus solely on the eggs. I was thinking of turning down the saturation a bit but I haven't done that yet.