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[dianimations]

Can you please explain how you made the animations with illustrator? It is so beautifully well done! I'm specifically talking about the minimalist objects that represent Big Bang :)

Thank u :D, i didn’t use illustrator, i used Flash 8 with that one ! it’s way easier tbh, when u finish u export it as PNG sequence or a video then import it to Photoshop and make the last adjustments :)

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The word limitation is very inconvenient. If you don't mind me asking what editing program do you use? I have been very interested in photography lately. Every day I take pictures of daily objects and see if I can improve photography skills. I want the most mundane things to come to life and full of beauty. You are very correct. Photography is about exploration as it is with any other art. I am tempted to read all the posts in the TOC, but I wonder if I should explore the properties of my dslr

I use Lightroom. Tried the editing software that came with my DSLR and it works perfectly as well, but I love the database of Lightroom and … yeah … the neat features like the adjustment brush and the graduated filter. Gives me everything I need.

Read all of the posts in the TOC? O.o I’d not do that, tbh *lol*You might of course look up things, you stumble upon while exploring your own photography. So, yes, definitly explore the properties of your DSLR! And if you stumble upon a certain issue, a problem, an insecurity, if you don’t understand something or there is something you’re not comfortable with, ask other people what they do.If they experienced the same issue, how they approach it? There are so many unbelievably talented photographers on Tumblr (and other parts of the web… I have a lot of lovely and very helpful contacts on Flickr) and most of them love to share their experiences. Of course you can hit me up anytime.

The cool thing is, almost everyone will tell you a different story ^^ As confusing as this might be, for me this is the perfect proof, that there is no “right” or “wrong” in arts.

I hope you don’t mind, that I copy the ask in your private message in here as well:

Character limitation again and tumblr says I’m putting a link the ask box. I’m not, but anyways sorry about that.I was wondering if I should learn and understand the properties of my DSLR first before reading. I may be wrong, but I feel reading would somewhat take away the exploration of photography.The actual doing and conducting makes it exciting.The fact I learned something on my own.However,that does not mean I will ignore advice from those with experience.So do you have any advice for beginners? Thank you for your time, Pete!

I absolutely agree. My way of learning is quite similar. I look at other peoples pictures and I try to figure out what it is, that I like. And then I try to find out, how to do it. And - even more important - I look at my own pictures and try to find out what I like (or not like) about them and try to figure out, how to do or avoid it.It might take a bit longer to figure everything out myself, but in the process of analyzing and playing around, I learn more than by “just” reading how it’s done. If you know, what you like and you know which tools you have and how they work, you will find out, how to do things.Composition is all about positioning, light and shadow and focal lenghts. Exposure is about aperture, shutter speed and ISO and depth of field about aperture, focal lenght and sensor size. So everything is about balancing those different factors. As I see it, every aspect of photography is a new door that opens and a new room to explore. Be it “exposure”, be it “composition”, be it “depth of field”, be it “editing”, be it “working with strobes”, be it “black and white photography” … and so piece by piece, door by door, you discover not only a complete house but a wonderful world. ^^

So, the only advice I can give is, continue what you already do :) Be curious :) Play around. Look at other peoples pictures. Look at your own pictures. If you want a more “technical tip”: Two very big doors that opened for me were, when I started to realize what the different focal lenghts do to pictures and when I started using the Aperture Priority mode of my DSLR and so got control over the depth of field without having to bother about all of the other settings…

[tvoom]

Hi again. I read many of your posts, which are all enlightening and wonderful. I hope you don't mind that I have couple more questions regarding photography. You say you edit the picture in order to get to possible "mood" you had in mind. Is this mood already determined before you took the picture or after you took the picture? There was one photography of a railroad. The original picture is relatively bright, but the edited picture is dark and dramatic. Did you have this mood in mind before?

Thank you very, very much! I’m really happy, that you enjoy my posts!And of course I don’t mind! Please ask whatever you want to know. Don’t hesitate to hit up my ask box any time.

To your question: You are talking about this picture, aren’t you?

(It’s from the first post of my series about exposure, that I was asked to do some time ago)

With this picture, I indeed had more or less the final look in mind, when I took it, although the blueish tint in the shadows is something I came up during the editing if I remember correctly.

As I see it, there are three different (technical) ways to approach photography:

Use the pictures exactly as they come out of camera with no editing whatsoever.

Use the images out of camera and “polish” the shots in editing.

Shoot especially for editing.

I don’t think, there is a “right” or “wrong” way to do it. Each approach has its advantages and disadvantages. And having a bit of experience in all three fields will save you in most situations.Most of the time I try to get as close to the final “look” with all the possibilities of my camera and tweak the shot in editing.By practicing to get your pictures “right” in camera, you not only learn a lot, but you also save a lot of time in editing. On my second to last holiday I forced myself to use approach number one, and I can’t tell you how much I learned by that. Because you can do an awful lot “in-camera”, just by tweaking “aperture”, “shutter speed”, “ISO” and “white balance”.Sometimes you might need a little bit of extra gear to be able to create a certain look, though.With the above one for example, I would have needed a grad-ND filter to darken the sky. Since I (still) don’t have a grad-ND, I shot for editing. This means: I tried to capture as much picture information (in the highlights, midtones and shadows) as ever possible, because only if you have picture information, you can work with it. When shooting for editing, the “original” picture most definitly will look quite dull (like the one above).

If the highlights were blown out, the sky would have been a plain white area and by darkening the highlights, it would have been a pain grey area with now clouds… Similar in the shadows: If I “crushed” the shadows, they’d been a plain black area and all I would have gotten by brightening them up, were a plain dark-grey area with probably a lot of noise.

One last remark on the term “mood” or “look”: The above picture is a quite extreme example. Sometimes just tweaking the contrast or raising/lowering the saturation is all I do to get what I want or to give the picture a final “punch”.

[tvoom]

I appreciate photography for the beauty you can capture. I am no photographer by any means, but rather a curious human being. Would you say part of photography also includes editing the picture? Or is photography just the picture you took? If you can clarify this that would be great!

Hey there! Thank you :)Well, in my approach of photography, editing plays definitly a big role. I try to get my pictures as “right” as ever possible in camera, concernig the framing, the exposure etc.But no camera is really capable of capturing exactly, what the human eye (well, the eye and brain) is able to see. So with editing I try to get as close as ever possible to the “mood” I had in mind, when taking the picture.Sometimes I have to do a lot, somtimes it’s just chosing the appropriate camera profile in Lightroom.Also, editing for me is a great way to learn. What would have happend, if I tried a different exposure, a different white balance, a different framing?I have to say, that I learned a lot by editing my own pictures.Of course I don’t know, what you really think about, when you say “editing”. Since I shoot RAW most of the time, I have to process my pictures and … well … this is editing.What I do with about every picture, is adding a bit of contrast and balancing the light values in the shadow and highlight areas. Sometimes I tweak the colours a bit as well and lighten and/or darken areas of the picture.

I posted some examples of what I did and do (and even a little story about my view on editing) on this blog. You can find them with the tag “editing” or simply by clicking here

Thank you again. Hope this clarifies and helps a bit. All the best!

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