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04/08/2004 02:51:41 PM · #1 |
Hi there, I live in LA, and when I am free to take photos, the weather never wants to cooperate. It's often very grey, hazy and the skies are white or dull.
Does anyone have tips or techniques or ideas for taking photos when the sky is so drab? What subjects, where do you go? What can you do to brighten, liven up your photos (without much photoshop work). I can't make the skies blue, so flowers and buildings look dull and not attractive.
I really want to go out and photograph things later today, but I am not sure what to do anymore. I end up deleting all my work since it's always on days like this and the photos seem to lack life and luster!
Please advise... perhaps I am just not creative, but I am technical... |
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04/08/2004 02:57:14 PM · #2 |
| One thing to try to to photograph items that contain lots of colour and don't include the sky in the composition at all. |
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04/08/2004 02:59:07 PM · #3 |
When the sky is dull just think of it as a giant soft box. So the sky is dull, but it makes a wonderfull soft light on verything else. All you need to do is edit the sky out of your shots by looking at details, shoot in close with wide lenses or head over towards the hills and shoot with hills instead of sky as a backrop. Get all those shot you can't get when harsh shadows create three stop shifts in a composition. Once you start to enjoy this great light Murphy's law will give you lots of sunny days.
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04/08/2004 03:00:44 PM · #4 |
| I like murphy's law sometimes! haha. Okay, some good ideas here. I also worry about my flash over-compensating. Sadly, I only have a pop-up. Can't afford an external. So, I'll just try to use a tripod and no flash. I do have a sync cord! :) |
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04/08/2004 03:08:58 PM · #5 |
Yup - overcast is about the best possible light for macro work - no harsh shadows, really saturated colours.
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04/08/2004 03:22:31 PM · #6 |
Color-Grad Filters
Other companies that make camera filters like Cokin, Hoya, etc also have these graduated filters.
True it can be done in PS but it's great for people without any post-production software. |
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