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August 22nd, 2009

Movie Legends Canvas Art

Posted in Digital Photos + Cameras

The latest art movement has seen a boom in canvas art reproduction, largely due to the digital photograph revolution. Nowadays individuals can take take photographs with their digital cameras, go to a canvas printshop and get their holiday / family photos printed on stretched canvas. Or their favourite sportsperson, actor, pop star etc. As a matter of fact, anything that can be photographed can be printed onto canvas sheet in minutes and be artwork on your house wall.

Digital cameras and photo editing software such as Photoshop have all of a sudden made it viable to virtually produce your own art on canvas material - not only contributing some enjoyment and creative thinking to the task of decorating your walls with canvas artwork, but saving you some dosh as well.

There are loads of websites that give you the option to add your photograph, choose your canvas size, and then pay for it. Usually these artworks appear on canvas stretched along using stretcher-bars.

If there’s a printshop near you, you can literally walk in with your photo, and walk out 30 minutes afterwards with canvas artwork under your arm of your photograph - it’s that straight-forward.

Any examples of such artwork? Try these : movie legends canvas art. If you need inspiration, check out a website with royalty free photographs - then take your bought photo(s) to a canvas printshop or canvas printing website and have them reproduced onto canvas.

April 26th, 2008

Photography A - Z the Easy Way: O - Overexposure

Posted in Digital Photos + Cameras

Overexposure is a term often discussed in photography. What does it mean?

Simply put, it is when too much light is allowed to reach the sensor and the resulting image is too “light” or “bright”.

Why does it happen?

To get a decent image, the camera has to select a combination of aperture (the size of the hole in the lens that lets in light) and shutter speed (the length of time the sensor is exposed to the light when taking a picture).

Generally, the camera chooses the correct combination. Sometimes the camera makes a wrong judgement for the scene in front of it OR the photographer chooses settings that are not ideal.

If this happens, too much light can enter the camera and hit the sensor, resulting in overexposure. The “whites” or “highlights” will be burnt out and too bright. Any detail in these areas will tend to be lost.

The cure is to retake the photograph and choose LESS exposure by using a smaller aperture or a faster shutter speed. This can be done either manually by the photographer or automatically by the camera if it has facility for “automatic exposure compensation”. Read the manual to find out.

Your images might also be overexposed if there is a good deal of low light in the scene you are photographing as the camera tries to compensate for the average low light levels by increasing the light hitting the sensor. Alternatively, using flash, especially the in-built flash on compacts and lower end prosumers / SLRs can result in overexposure and “bleaching” of your subjects. In these cases try to compensate using the camera.

Eric Hartwell runs the photography resource site http://www.theshutter.co.uk and the associated discussion forums as well as the regular weblog at http://thephotographysite.blogspot.com.