One thing I've learnt while doing nature photography is how incredibly hard it is to make a picture look interesting while the vast majority of it consists on greenery. Somehow the eye sees something beautiful but the camera only manages to translate it into a green blob.
Luckily with a bit of experimentation and various exposure corrections I managed to turn some of those blobs into more interesting photographs. Most of the shots I took at Giverny last summer were flowers of course and you can see those in my ongoing Floral Friday collection posts but if Claude Monet can turn this idyllic corner into world famous paintings there's no reason some of us can't try to at least make some decent photographs out of this place as well.
The peaceful pond
One thing I’ve learnt while doing nature photography is how incredibly hard it is to make a picture look interesting while the vast majority of it consists on greenery. Somehow the eye sees something beautiful but the camera only manages to translate it into a green blob.
Luckily with a bit of experimentation and various exposure corrections I managed to turn some of those blobs into more interesting photographs. Most of the
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…a green blob!!! yes, beauty is in the eye of the human who is looking, not in the eye of the camera. beauty is a feeling. the camera has no feeling. you're very right.