Photography

I enjoy photography and have been out on many occasions to take pictures of various different subjects. I used to go out to a lake near where I live to capture a grey heron but it was very shy and took me many different attempts but I invested in camouflage clothes and a camouflage net which kept me hidden and free to take pictures of it.

This is a picture of the very still heron. I got many other pictures but decided to put this picture on my blog to show what went wrong with it. This is actually 3 pictures stitched together creating a panorama. What went wrong with this picture is that the middle picture was taken slightly out of focus and the top picture is not aligned correctly. This is shown clearly by the tree in the background underneath the heron's beak. The tree trunk is not a straight line.

I took many pictures of the heron and in my opinion this one stood out the most because it really shows the true detail and beauty of the bird. The best part of this picture for me is the heron's eye. It is looking directly at the camera lens and shows the wild, wondrous side to the heron. I also like the heron's posture and stance and the positioning it has on the picture. I put the subject very slightly left of the picture to show that it has something ahead of it which is out of view. This adds a slight mystery.

Another one of my favourite photographs is the one I took in Tenerife. I decided to get a picture of the sunrise which meant getting up at 5:30 and down to the sea by 6:00. I took the picture during the 'Golden Hour' and am very happy with the results.
Both of these photos have been edited on Adobe Photoshop CS2. I used Curves to make the orange brighter and the shadows darker  to add a rich, warm mood to the photo.