23. December 2011 by Friedhelm.

I photographed this dragon in Germany and I considered a prime subject for the Droste Effect. I “played” with the image until I got what I liked.

Enjoy, have a Merry Christmas. The next exercise I will post in the new year.

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22. December 2011 by Friedhelm.

I photographed part of an iron gate and tweaked it until I got this image.

Enjoy and keep on creating great images!

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21. December 2011 by Friedhelm.

I photographed a simple leaf and played around until I got this image.

Enjoy and keep on playing with your  images!

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20. December 2011 by Friedhelm.

This is am image of a simple lamp. I checked the “fractal” box on the ”Droste Photosop plug-in” and got  this image.

Enjoy and keep on playing with images!

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19. December 2011 by Friedhelm.

The week before Christmas I like to have some fun with my images to escape the usual stress before the Holidays. My partner and friend David showed my the Droste Effect in Photoshop and I thought that is a nice exercise for this week. You can look at the history of the Droste Effect by going to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect.  The Digital Photography school has a nice description how to install the Droste Effect. Go to http://www.digital-photography-school.com/photoshop-droste-effect. Don’t forget, this exercise should be a lot of fun!

I found it helpful to look for a single subject, like this flower. I also learned that it is best to downsize your image to 800X1200 pixels if you don’t want to wait for a long time until the image is rendered!

Again, have a lot of fun with this project!

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15. December 2011 by Friedhelm.

I used a red gel in front of my strobe unit to create this image.

Enjoiy and keep on photographing!

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14. December 2011 by Friedhelm.

The “crown” is one of the great image creation in shooting water droplets. Since I photographed it in very shallow water I got a double reflection. There is the reflection on the water surface and the glass.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

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13. December 2011 by Friedhelm.

I turned my blue bowl upside down to let the drops fall directly onto the glass creating just a very shallow water surface. This creates quite a different effect.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

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12. December 2011 by Friedhelm.

Photograph water droplets that are falling down and hit something! This exercise is a lot of fun and can be done with a group of children during the winter break. I use one strobe light starting at at f8, 1/200sec. ISO 100. Try the setting that works best for you.

I used a cooking bowl and I hung a freezer bag filled with some water (you don’t need a full bag, it is too heavy)  over the bowl. Then I poked a small hole into it. I started the strobe unit in a 90 degree angle and tried a few shot. It took a little bit of patients but after a while I got some quite interesting images.

Have fun!

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9. December 2011 by Friedhelm.

After a week I am definitely ready to photograph with my DSLR. It is fun to photograph with a cell phone and they are great for snapping a picture here and there but you cannot expect the same image quality that a DSLR can produce.

Happy Friday and keep on photographing!

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