Color and Light Studies
color study
If you are looking to develop your picture taking muscles, carve some of your shooting time or maker a special picture capturing mission for color and light studies. These types of photos can sharpen your skill at capturing the right shot within a limited window. They can also turn your attention to more productive image editing tasks.
The purpose of color rich micro shots will be a proper subject, rendered in suitable focus, providing adequate contrast, and exhibiting pleasing or curious or noteworthy composition. Knowing the working envelope of your digital processing tools will allow the photographer best return on field photography and computer time.
The above image is a good example. Review the flash and glare points inside the shot. Varied angles could not vanquish these glare spots. But I wanted to see the bright color and how it looked with its fellow subject matter. Witha lot of work I could kill the flaws, but less time spent with a better composed photo is more efficient.
The result was sort of undirected, and the variable surfaces were a warning against capturing too much material via this medium next time. When calling upon these techniques in the field, you may have only one or two focus frames before you have to move on. That’s when focus and light studies of color and presentation add up.
Practice working with your camera and the “take” for light levels and color dimension. Pay attention to glass, mirror, and other reflective light sources. Macro and micro shots will always look different when chopped up and enhanced in the minute version you may feel is best to submit for microstock sites.
Amateur photographers are always discoverug something new about their skills, editing capabilities, and camera workings. The method of enhancing photography digitially is practically its own science by now.
Today’s microstock market is about time. Customers of the microstock sites don;t have the time energy or skills to get the same product your camera and computer is submitting.
Getting the raw footage and then blending light filters, reducing glare, snuffing out noise and capturing better composition via cropping can happen later.
Working with color and light willsharpen the skill set needed when the opportunity for just a few frames and a remote or destination subject presents itself. Glare can be your friend. Glare can set the light level much higher ina given setting than it needs to be. This can really work well if you get to know your camera and its little ways.
The ultimate compliment between photographer and camera is the way the photographer can short-sheet the lost productivity time by salvaging shots from a less than perfect shooting run. Glare can provide enough light to switch off auto focus and light diminishing filters inside your camera’s auto mode.
