i've noticed that most professional photos (like the ones in the photo gallery) have vivid and bright colors.
how is that accomplished?

i've noticed that most professional photos (like the ones in the photo gallery) have vivid and bright colors.
how is that accomplished?

:Grin: You have to PM (Private Message) a moderator first with your real name Bro. (Given and Surname). We don't use aliases in this forum... :)

Oh... and welcome to DPP... Congrats on your 1st post.

:Grin: You have to PM (Private Message) a moderator first with your real name Bro. (Given and Surname). We don't use aliases in this forum... :)

Oh... and welcome to DPP... Congrats on your 1st post.

i already did two days ago. they said they're gonna change it. why they havent changed it yet, i dunno why.

now can someone please tell me why do some photographs have vivid colors?
how can you make this happen? is it a camera feature?

i am so impressed by the pics in the photo gallery. hopefully one day i could learn to shoot like that.
mr.Ibay's "kamatis" http://www.digitalphotographer.com.ph/photography/showphoto.php?photo=1263&cat=510 is so simple yet so striking. i dont know how to professionaly call the clear-foreground-but-hazy-background effect but thats simply great! plus of course the fact that the tomatoe's color of green, yellow and red stand out. not to mention the pipe's dark brown. asteeg talaga!
anyway at first i thought the apperture should open longer, maybe a full second or two, for all the light to come in (yup, silly newbie thoughts, forgive me). but when i saw mr.sevilla's "bentley" http://www.digitalphotographer.com.ph/photography/showphoto.php?photo=3045&cat=504 there is simply no way you can capture a crisp photo like that if you have your apperture open for more than a half second. i mean...wow! how? how? how?

er...another silly question....are these pics photoshop editted to make the colors stand out?

thanks in advance!

by the way, i was using a sony point-and-shoot camera before. now i got myself a kodak DX6490. of all the PASM cameras i looked at, i guess its the most affordable for a begginer like me.

oh and lastly....yung magazine na Digital Photography, where can i get one? i've checked sa national bookstore cubao. wala daw sila nun.

thanks! thanks!

-boc villamor

i've noticed that most professional photos (like the ones in the photo gallery) have vivid and bright colors.
how is that accomplished?

Your question has no one true answer... Meaning, the photographs that you saw with vividly striking saturated colours are products of a careful process... It is from pre-conceptualization to post production. :) Though most photographers ideally want an image to come out of the camera the way they want it to be; the truth of the matter is... It doesn't--well at least not exactly; technique and the camera used here are known limitations; as well as experience in post processing...

There is some varrying degree that you have to pull out more detail from an image, specially if you're shooting in RAW. However, for JPEG shooters these punchy images can come out straight out of the cam based on one's own programmed settings... This is called in-camera image processing (effects of which are dependent on the type of camera you use; each brand of camera has their own processing algorithm)... IMO, you should be familiar with your gear and experiment on it as much as you can... You have to know it's limitations, then after, it's the time to enhance using whatever application which suits your workflow. :Grin: