Hello all,
Go to http://tinyurl.com/4hvwqn to view a selection of 99/243 pictures taken on our recent holiday.
Creating the album and putting it on the web was fairly intuitive, and, like everything else, things will improve with practice. I find I am very very critical when it comes to photos; I am easily displeased with either my own or other peoples pix. Conversely, when a picture appeals to me and stands out of the pack then I heap praise on it. I like pix that have plenty of subject matter and that are well composed and balanced. Pleasing to the eye.
I am not a fan of my own image on photo, but they say that the camera never lies. On one trip on the Docklands Light Rail in London I was interested in the camera techique of an American tourist who said that he often got better pictures by just vaguely waving the camera at the subject and pressing the button...that is to say he did not use any viewfinding to set the picture up. I must try that technique, because often, in attempting to compose a picture, I still cannot escape that lamp post sprouting from someones head or the pile of food and plates in front of the group of people. I also believe that the professionals will take dozens of photos of the same subject and sort through them for the best, so that by sheer weight of numbers they will come up with that 'perfect' photo.
There must also be room for those posed studio shots that I find in my family history studies; wonderful family groups in their best or borrowed clothes, with a backdrop screen behind and those rich sepia or black & white tones. My family history studies leave me in perpertual awe of the fact that those shots were taken and have survived...but how important it is to know the who, what, when and where of the subject matter!!!
Enough for now...I am pleased to have posted the album!
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