Digital Photography

[frintonite]

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[JenniC]

Amazing, I love photography and want to learn more, My passion is landscapes and macro (flowers). never used Elements, is it good and is it pricy ?

[Delboy]

I think when it comes to the processing of photo's, it's getting the balance right. I don't mind photo's being processed providing they still look natural and not over processed. I have elements and the full adobe photoshop 5 processing programs, they are on my desktop computer. I very rarely use them these days, now loading my photos direct from my camera card to my IPad, and upload them from there direct to Flik'r, Facebook etc via snapseed or filterstorm.

Even when using the most expensive camera and lens, a photo can still do with a little post sharpening.

Whilst I like your sons processing in that he has brought out some of the high lights in the shadows and the reflections of the boats on the water, I personally think the blue of the sun and it's reflection on the water has been over processed, it's too blue for me.

But that's just me, my wife cannot stand processed photo's at all, she likes them looking natural as they were taken, she can always pick out a photo which has been processed. She would personally prefer your processing of the photo.

[Manoverboard]

Your ' adjustments ', Ray, are subtle and acceptable for viewing the subject matter but your son has, to me, simply demonstrated what is possible rather than what is advisable or even desirable.

I have done a number of similar pics as his but mine were for Mobietta's water colour / acrylic painting experiments rather than for general viewing.

As an aside ... on XP I found that Microsoft's ' Picture It ' is perfectly adequate for routine changes and corrections from cropping to removal of unwanted lamp posts etc.

[oldbluefox]

Amazing, I love photography and want to learn more, My passion is landscapes and macro (flowers). never used Elements, is it good and is it pricy ?

Jenni, I bought an Elements and Premiere Elements bundle at Christmas from Amazon for £62.99 which seemed quite a good price. It seems to do everything I want it to, having tried all the free offerings, plus there are plenty of manuals, online help and YouTube offerings to help you when you get stuck.

[Delboy]

A free on line photo processing software programme which is often mentioned in photo magazines is a programme called GIMP.

"GIMP provides easy-to-use, professional design tools that are comparable to Photoshop—minus the hefty price tag. GIMP is free image editing software that perfects photos and creates animated images.One of the most powerful general-purpose image editors around, GIMP can be used as a simple paint program, an expert-quality photo retouching program, image format converter and more. You will never be asked for personal information or a credit card."

[oldbluefox]

I tried GIMP - couldn't make head nor tail of it but it does have some good reviews.

[suespud]

My son has his own photography business and my OH is a very keen photographer.
My hubby likes "faffing" with his pictures...I prefer them natural.
But my son always asks me to check any of his his that he has "enhanced" for whatever reason...(usually at request of the client) to check it looks ok.
He did refuse one clients request to change the colour of the carpets in the hotel as the brides mother thought it clashed with her outfit

[JoanneB]

Delboy

Do either of the ipad programmes you mention allow you to title the photo and then upload to Flickr keeping teh title intact?

I always try and title immediately before I forget where we were and why that particular place was of interest but I use iPhoto on the iPad and the titles get lost in transition.

[Delboy]

Delboy

Do either of the ipad programmes you mention allow you to title the photo and then upload to Flickr keeping teh title intact?

I always try and title immediately before I forget where we were and why that particular place was of interest but I use iPhoto on the iPad and the titles get lost in transition.

JoanneB

No I don't think they do, I use them just to process the photo and then transfer the photo to Flik'r , however they do keep the Exif details of the photo which I believe IPhoto does not. I enter headings on Flik'r.
You may be aware but you can now directly upload to Flik'r via IPad without using a photo processing programme, but again it does not keep any Exif details.

A very good app which allows you to interface directly between the IPad and Flick'r which allows you to post headings and adjust photos exactly the same as you can on Flik'r, in fact it is much easier than using Flik'r directly, it is an app called FlickStacker an excellent app for Flik'r users.

Don't know if you are aware that Flick'r also have a fairly new app for an IPhone which also works very well on the IPad, it gives instant contact to your Flik'r account and photos including those photos and accounts you have listed as your contacts.


What is Exif data?

Exif data is a record of the settings a camera used to take a photo or video. This information is embedded into the files the camera saves.

[JoanneB]

Thanks Delboy I'll have to keep on doing them twice in that case!

The Flickr app for iPad is very quick but only seems to take photos from "Photos" not from the editing app. Or maybe, and very likely, I don't know what I'm doing!

I tend to upload via iTunes to my iMac and tehn across to Flickrs so I have 2 copies (oh and then to a hard drive too, belt, braces and a bit of string!)