[ Olympus Colours ] - Show Your Blues, Greens and Reds!
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selamatlzh
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Black and White
The key to great looking blue and red skies is metering.
See the shots by selamat and teonglai as an example; the sky is much brighter than the foreground, but because they want to feature the colours in the sky, they metered the sky and left the foreground shadowed out; in this case is the foreground is unimportant, so by shadowing it out they help bring the attention of the viewer to the sky.
If they metered against the foreground, the skies will be blown out.
holidaydom
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Marcusk:
One thing you can do is to use a graduated filter like the ones from COKIN.
A Graduated Neutral Density filter (ND Grad for short) is basically a rectangular piece of plastic that is is dark on one end and gradually fades to transparent on the other end.
You can use a Grad filter to balance out exposures where the sky is too bright, just align the filter in front of the lens so that the dark part of the grad filter covers the bright sky.
Another thing you can do is to try using a polariser to bring out the tones in the sky by cutting glare. But don't expect instant results with a polariser as the intensity of the effect depends on the angle of polarisation and other factors...
Alternatively, you can shoot the scene 3 times and merge it in Photoshop as a HDR (high dynamic range) photo... (you can serach for "HDR photo" on Google for more info on this)
1) Meter for Sky
2) Multi metering
3) Meter for Ground
One thing you can do is to use a graduated filter like the ones from COKIN.
A Graduated Neutral Density filter (ND Grad for short) is basically a rectangular piece of plastic that is is dark on one end and gradually fades to transparent on the other end.
You can use a Grad filter to balance out exposures where the sky is too bright, just align the filter in front of the lens so that the dark part of the grad filter covers the bright sky.
Another thing you can do is to try using a polariser to bring out the tones in the sky by cutting glare. But don't expect instant results with a polariser as the intensity of the effect depends on the angle of polarisation and other factors...
Alternatively, you can shoot the scene 3 times and merge it in Photoshop as a HDR (high dynamic range) photo... (you can serach for "HDR photo" on Google for more info on this)
1) Meter for Sky
2) Multi metering
3) Meter for Ground
Lovely!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Some black, red and yellow.
Camera: E-500
Lens: ED50mm f2.0 Macro
Aperture: f6.3
Aperture priority
Shutter: 1/2.5s
ISO 100
Natural light, no flash
Metering mode: ESP+AF
Haha, just missing one shiny green pepper!
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
selamatlzh
Senior Member
ZD50-200+EX25
leeweelee80
Senior Member
Brown
Green
Grey
Blue and Orange
Purple And Yellow
All Kit Lens
Green
Grey
Blue and Orange
Purple And Yellow
All Kit Lens
holidaydom
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E500 + FL50 + 50mm f2.0
Thanks!
Thanks! Actually, the day I took it I only had red pepper and thought it would be too much red. Next time better planning...
...is my favourite. :thumbsup: Really very dramatic and nice. Kit lens, but EX-25 also, isn't it?
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