Landscape photography of Ian Cameron

The essence of good landscape photography seems to boil down to three things: composition, timing and light and Ian Cameron believes that this final ingredient, light, its colour, quality and strength is the single biggest infuence on the success or otherwise of the final image.


Enjoy the slideshow -at this terrific gallery  Transient Light 

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Came across this link - terrific composition and lighting.

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Shooting panoramic pictures

With the advent of high resolution digital cameras and great software, stitching panoramas has never been easier. 


The world's largest picture (as of 2010) is a 80 Gigapixel image of the London skyline, available at http://www.360cities.net. Microsoft Research's Photosynth software is useful as well. You can view the beautiful panorama of St. Peter's basilica in Rome here 


There are useful instructions on how to shoot overlapping images that can be stitched easily @ panomonkey.com. There are many ways you can stitch the images together by yourself using various photo editing tools such as Adobe Photoshop or you can use web based tools such as Panomonkey or Photosynth to name a few. 

The above panorama was created by stitching three images with Microsoft's Image Composite Editor (free photo stitching tool). 


For an example of a 3D image created by the Photosynth software, click here to see a winter image of Pleasant Lake, Michigan.


So go ahead and get started, and soon the world will be enjoying your panoramas.

Weekly freebie by Fotochoice.com (Dec 25, 2010)

This Christmas once again, the main street of of Rochester, Michigan becomes the home of the annual 'The Big Bright Light Show' when the buildings downtown are covered in more than 1.5 million points of glimmering holiday lights.


People young and young-at-heart were admiring the lighting braving the bitter cold (20F), while a few were finishing their last minute shopping or singing christmas carols. Some others were having a good time at their dinner table or were quietly enjoying their drink.

As I looked around I began to wonder: Is this the true spirit of christmas or is it what Wilfred A. Peterson said in The Art of Living: "Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man."  The latter indeed. Merry Christmas!

Picture Details: Canon 50D 24-70mm lens, F4, 1/64 sec exposure, no tripod, ISO 3200.

Weekly freebie by Fotochoice.com (Dec 08, 2010)

It had rained most of the morning confining me indoors. When it finally stopped, I walked through my garden with my macro lens. As I clicked away at the roses my wife lovingly tends to year after year, I was reminded of the poetic words William Carlos William had written:
"A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring".

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