Picture of the week 12.06

Cloud shaped like a plane.

Subject is everything here, just zoom in tight enough to not have any large distractions in the frame.

Picture of the week 12.05

Birds flapping over the small canal.

Set the shutter speed low enough for the flapping to be not frozen, 1/6s in this case.

Blown highlights

Have you ever been annoyed with this in one of your pictures?

Blown highlights in the cloudy sky.

This is a common problem in digital photography where either the selected exposure or the camera sensor itself will push whole regions of the picture into complete white. This is why it is called blown highlights, as the highlights, i.e. the light parts of the picture, become totally white, hence "blown".

The question is, why does this happen and how can you prevent it?

Picture of the week 12.04

Defiant piece of grass in the middle of the road

Find a nice lump of grass with a clear stretch of road ahead. Lie on your tummy. Make sure the road is really empty, for personal safety! Compose the frame tight enough to avoid getting anything else in the frame that might compete for attention.

Picture of the week 12.03

Colorful spinning carnival ride. Altstadt, Dusseldorf.

The colors made this an obvious choice. Then it was simply a matter of finding the right shutter speed to get the desired amount of motion blur.