No, not really, it’s not the countries that is versing each other. The clubs were made of students/people from other countries who love indoor soccer. The lighting wasn’t that great, so I have to use very high ISO to capture this.
Lighting: just indoor lamps forcing me to use ISO 1000-1600
Lens: my fastest lens = 35mm f2
Lightroom preset: SarahJi -> OrangeGarden
Camera: of course my D80
Shallow DoF made the letters stands out
Want to see some action? You got it!
Even at 1/200s you can still see some motion blur!
Lee the playmaker just dribled through the French defender!
The ref gave someone a yellow card, and certainly someone isn't happy with that
Presents... The Dudley Boyz! from Indonesia (and Singapore, Malay, etc) :p
The plugin we all know and love is updated. The new version is pretty much the same as the old one, but you are able to set % of width/height instead of pixels on the watermarking to make sure the watermark scales with landscape/portrait.
Version 3.00, 23rd July 2009
Added support for inner borders!
A checkbox in the outer border sections allows you to manipulate the four borders at the same time.
Automatic update has been improved (although you won’t see the effect until the next version…)
Version 2.20, 14th July 2009
Border widths can now be a percentage of the longest/shortest side.
Problems related to the saving of presets containing multiple borders have now been solved (I hope!).
The rule of thirds is a very useful tool for composing images in photography. And to top it off, it’s free! Doesn’t require any add on equipment to your camera, any shoe mounts, anything like that! This article will attempt to demystify the mysterious Rule of Thirds. This post is a follow up from my basic photography tutorial and tips for point and shoot camera.
To follow this rule, simply take a photo and divide it up into three sections vertically and three sections horizontally. Now, as you can see from doing this there are three boxes on the top, three in the middle, and three at the bottom. The box in the middle of all of them is the center. This compositional rules basically advises you not to take pictures in that middle box. When you put the object smack bang in the middle, not only it look amateurish, but it is also boring.
Put the object into intersection of thirds
What this does is makes you have to try and position the subject so that he/she or it is not dead center. This creates more visually interesting images.
When you take a photo of a person, the main focal point will be the eyes. Now, you can take a photo of a person dead center, however, follow the rule still! Put the eyes anywhere but the middle box. You can put the eyes in the top box instead. Their body will be dead center but their face will be in the upper area.
Photo from DPS rule of thirds tutorial
Now, when you follow this rule you also need to be careful to leave plenty of head room when shooting people. This room is space around the head and will make your photo not look claustrophobic. Also, if your person is looking towards the left, leave plenty of room at the left side of the photo and less on the right.
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) on the thirds
So what software can you use to help you with this?
Lightroom is always my favourite post processing software. When you use the crop tool in lightroom, you will be presented with the rule of thirds helper to let you crop better.
Lightroom helps you compose better with rule of thirds
So even if you forgot to compose the rule of thirds, you can have that peace of mind knowing that Lightroom can fix it for you later. However, do not grow dependent on it, as you lose pixels/resolution every time you crop.
So I posted a tutorial on how to create copyright signature with Lightroom sometime ago. I got some question from readers on how to put the copyright watermark into the border to not obstruct the photo itself. Now the answer is using Mogrify plugin to add border around the photo along with the watermark. Now [...]
I have been getting some question from my friends and reader on how to put a signature on your photos with Lightroom. Before knowing this technique, I used Photoshop to manually embed signature on lightroom one by one. Now with Lightroom, we can automate the process to watermark all your pictures in one go. Now [...]
Some of you might wonder what Lightroom is? The short answer is “another image processing software from Adobe beside Photoshop and Elements”. The long answer would be “a freaking awesome software to help you process hundreds of photos in short amount of time by maximizing your work flow while utilizing presets and databases.” It might [...]
By far, this is my favorite preset since i begin to use lightroom, it gives such impressive and emotional effect that everybody who have seen my pics like it. Here is some example of the result:
(Click on each picture to enlarge)
You can get the preset from mikelao’s website here
For those of u who doesnt [...]
