Nashville Tennessee July Fourth

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Point and shoot bridge cameras, making art

I consider myself an amateur photographer. I am a photography enthusiast. I am not a professional photographer as I do not sell my images, but still, I love to shoot photos. I want to encourage those of you who have bridge cameras or point and shoot cameras to consider doing photography as an art form. I have a Canon SX40HS and a Fujifilm HS30EXR. Both are considered superzoom bridge cameras. They are more the size and shape of a DSLR but they have a fixed lens and a much smaller sensor, however, I still get some really good results with these cameras.

One thing that I found surprising when I first started shooting digital cameras is that you have to do post editing to get the results you really want. I use Corel's Paint Shop Pro 6X. The photos do not have the color and the clarity that you would want straight from the camera. What I mean is that they do not have the eye popping quality. Here is an example of three edits of the same photo. I took it on Broadway Street in Down Town Nashville TN on the fourth of July this year.

This one is straight out of the camera.

This one is a color edit that has been tonemapped

The third is a monochrome that has been tonemapped.

I think that the tonemapping gives them the eye popping quality. What do you think? I plan to use this blog to share my vision and my process. I will also show some of the great shots I took with just a point and shoot camera. Editing makes a big difference.

You can view all three by clicking on any one of them.

Still Life Shooting

If ther weather is bad and it is too cold, too wet, too hot to go out to shoot you can shoot still life setups indoors. Here are some examples of my favorite efforts.

 

 

 

Memphis Tennessee

High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography

I just purchased a new stand alone photo processor from Photomatix. It allows you to produce HDR photos. Whenever there is a light situation where a photo has heavy shade and bright sunlight the camera does not see the contrast differentiation like our eyes do. HDR software takes care of that problem

 All of the above photos are tonemapped with HDR software.

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