Re: How to get good photos?
Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:06 pm
So how do you think the trend nowadays towards touch screen display vs. view finder changes the way you "see" the photo before taking it? You see exactly what the camera will produce. My biggest problem is that the display does not show up well in direct daylight. My personal experience is that I really do not get a good feel about the photo until I get it home and put it up on a large computer screen. However, I do find the small thumbnails are easier to see composition because I am not distracted by details. I guess what you are saying is that it is a lot like looking at stereo pairs of air photos. Each in itself is flat but put them together in the special glasses and you get 3-d (actually highly exaggerated) representation. Since we are only taking one shot we have to use some other thing to show depth- shadows, size, leading the eye into the photo. So knowing all this stuff, do you actually think about it or does it come second nature intuitively after a while? It makes my head hurt to think I have to do all that thinking just to take a photo!
Another question I have is about lense distortion. I get the trees in the center to stand straight up and then the horizon on the sides looks tilited. If I crop the photo later, it often looks like I tilted the camera. You can rotate the image slightly, but one part or another is going to look tilited. I am not aware of any post-processing that actually takes out the lense distortion. I am always in a quandry about what to have tilited and what horizontal or vertical.
Another question I have is about lense distortion. I get the trees in the center to stand straight up and then the horizon on the sides looks tilited. If I crop the photo later, it often looks like I tilted the camera. You can rotate the image slightly, but one part or another is going to look tilited. I am not aware of any post-processing that actually takes out the lense distortion. I am always in a quandry about what to have tilited and what horizontal or vertical.