Shooting Outside Gallery

Classic example of over-exposing. Take a look at the subjects, the field and everything looks fine. But looking over the horses shoulders into the bright clouds on the horizon and you'll be blinded by the light. The trouble is it draws your eyes into it and makes a great photo a near total loss. Let's try cropping it. Not much help, because though the horses are better viewed and with even better detail, you are not able to overcome the too high an exposure in the background. Maybe if we crop even more to focus our eyes on only the subjects within the frame. Let's see. One could make an argument for a nearly acceptable shot, but when nothing is done to better prepare for exposing, the result is pretty much the same. How did this happen? When looking into your viewfinder, and here I'm assuming your camera is a dslr (digital single lens reflex) you will see an exposure meter. The meter I saw was dead center, and I took the shot assuming the outcome would be perfect

Enter Iron Creek http://www.lightspacetime.com/current-competition-2/ Current Competition The theme for October 2010, our current competition is "Colors". The submission process for artists ends October 29, 2010. All winners will be selected, announced and be featured on the Light Space & Time website on November 1, 2010 and remain online in the gallery through November 30, 2010. Thereafter, the artworks will remain online in the Light Space & Time Archives with links to the artist's websites. At the bottom of this page is a link to enter this competition, along with the procedure to enter this exhibition. The sizing and labeling of your images is very important. Please size your images, not to exceed 534 x 356 pixels with a resolution of 100. Label your image files in the following manner; last name, image number, competition name, image name. Following is an Example: Smith_1_Surfaces_Wave.jpg. Please fill the entire form and loa

  Color Separation is a process which takes more than a few steps to accomplish. The rewards of accomplishment are gratifying. The work or fun, as you wish, are satisfying, if arduous. See a few more by visiting my Gallery titled Black and White Color at my website.

  Why DNG? Why not just RAW? Photographers like to save their photos in a format which will work for many years to come. So what format is that? TIFF? JPG? RAW? What do you save yours in? Most of us save in the standard JPG, but some of us have decided to move to RAW. Is that the answer? Formats ought to be a simple approach for saving image files. But we choose different formats. Or our cameras choose them for us. Every camera manufacturer ought to make it simple for us to convert an image file no matter their particular format to a standard format, but they don't. It's called proprietary use. What is the format for saving image files that is universal? It's called DNG, by Adobe. Why is that important? What happens when we save to our preferred format? Nothing so long as we don't change cameras or computers. We could conceivably save them and open them forever, well for a long time. But, if we shoot and save in RAW, then as soon as we change camera models, or we