dave12b
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Hi all. I am just trying to get back into photography after an 13 year lay off (surprisingly about the same time as my film cameras were stolen, got married, and had a kid). At the time, I was just a hobbyist with little training. Since then, my Wife's point and shoot and my cell phone has been all I used. Recently, I borrowed my Dad's DSLR and began messing around again, but I'm having a heck of a time. All the auto is great and all, but its a far cry from what I remember. In my college photojournalism class I learned how to use Photoshop with a negative scanner, but today's there are so many options today it is almost numbing. I downloaded GIMP, but besides figuring out how to crop, everything is far more complicated than where I am currently at. So I came on here and started reading/looking at everything I could.
This is my first real attempt at Macro. In the past, I mostly did street photography and some wildlife, but I had no use for the macro lens I used to possess. But like spinach, I seem to have acquired a taste for it later in life. I went with the family to a Wildlife Park and the best possibility for a macro shot was a flower in the butterfly enclosure. I cropped it in GIMP to a square aspect ratio (mostly because I always wanted a medium format camera back in the day), and tried to mess around with the colors. After an hour or so, I did not like where this was going and decided to come here for some honest C&C.
Here is the unedited(first) and edited (second) photos. Any help is appreciated.
flowerforisabel1 by lawson12b, on Flickr
flowerforisabel2 by lawson12b, on Flickr
Thanks in advance.
-dave
This is my first real attempt at Macro. In the past, I mostly did street photography and some wildlife, but I had no use for the macro lens I used to possess. But like spinach, I seem to have acquired a taste for it later in life. I went with the family to a Wildlife Park and the best possibility for a macro shot was a flower in the butterfly enclosure. I cropped it in GIMP to a square aspect ratio (mostly because I always wanted a medium format camera back in the day), and tried to mess around with the colors. After an hour or so, I did not like where this was going and decided to come here for some honest C&C.
Here is the unedited(first) and edited (second) photos. Any help is appreciated.
flowerforisabel1 by lawson12b, on Flickr
flowerforisabel2 by lawson12b, on Flickr
Thanks in advance.
-dave
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