by successfulbob | black & white, graphic design, landscape photography, Lumix GX7, Lumix Lounge, photography, photography education
I really enjoy the use of this preset on my Lumix GX7.
It’s called Impressive Art. It adds a slight glow to hard contrast lines, saturates and shifts colors and punches up the contrast. I’ve used this with success as is on a few videos for a totally different look. (take a peek at video here)
But my favorite way of using this setting was suggested by my fellow Lumix Luminaries to use Impressive Art but adjust output to Black and White. It gives a very graphic look to the image. I like it and have already used this setting to generate happy clients for my biz.
Here are a few from the canal in Lewes, Delaware. I was enjoying an evening Dogfish IPA at the bar and was attracted to the shadows, lines and reflections on the water… I couldn’t just sit there!
Reflections
Shadows and Line.
Shadows, Line, Reflections.
When using the presets on the camera make sure that you are capturing in jpeg. If you just shoot RAW you will see only the hint of what you thought you were capturing as the camera jpeg disappears when you download it. For the best of both worlds choose to capture in RAW + jpeg. Then you will have the camera settings but also access to all the information presented to the camera so you can do your own processing
by successfulbob | fine art photography, graphic design, Lumix GX7, Lumix Lounge, photography, photography education
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
A little slice of Sedona I Thought I’d share with you. A flower I enjoyed
while on a hike this AM. Hope you like it as much as I do…
Captured with the Lumix GX7 Lumix Vario 35-100mm f2.8 lens – Exposure f/10 1/80 sec ISO 200 at 100mm
After the capture of the flower it was extracted from the background and placed in another file with an organic background I made a couple days ago. The flower was enhanced and a drop shadow added. It was then duplicated and moved numerous times until I came up with what you see here.
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
― Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Happy Earth Day to you… Yours in Photography, Bob
by successfulbob | graphic design, graphic design, Lumix GH3, Lumix Lounge, photography, photography education
“Do you mind if I share an idea?” said my wife. “Oh, Oh.” thought I. This means she doesn’t like what I’m working on and wants to make a suggestion… I’m not always overly receptive. But, I know she often has great ideas.
You may remember a post I was so proud of a few days ago with my original idea of illustrating a polo player striking a ball.
I had been working on and image and got stuck in the proverbial rut. She being outside could see it and was willing to deal with my stupid ego to help get me out of a bad place.
So I replied, “OK what is it?” She tiptoed around a bit and shared, “You know if instead of the row of horses you should try just one alone and bigger.” I thought about it and agreed although I was still married to the original idea I had. Five minutes later, “Can I make one more suggestion…??” “Absolutely.” I replied. “You ought to take two riders fighting for the ball and make that the subject instead of just one horse.”
“OK” I replied. Then I perused the polo images and found this…
Original capture of polo players chasing down the ball.
Here is the resulting image after applying Holly’s input. (Ain’t she great??)
I’ll leave it for you to decide… Which image is more powerful? The one above? Or, the one I was stuck on before?? Another set of eyes can help point you in the right direction. I’m fond of saying some of my best ideas come from other people…. Which means you need to be willing to listen to critique and act on it to become a better image maker.
This image was captured with the Panasonic Lumix GH3 with the f4.0-5.6 100-300mm lens at 1/640th sec f5.6 ISO 200 at 300mm (600mm at 35mm equivalent)
