Idea to Image in Photoshop CS2: Rick Sammon’s Guide to Enhancing Your Digital Photographs

184 IDEA TO IMAGE

Compose Carefully

This picture of a young monk with a dzong (fortress and temple) in the

background is one of my favorites from the trip (

Figure 5.5). I photo-

graphed dozens of monks and many dzongs, but here I wanted to show

both subjects, isolating each of them. After asking the monk if I could take

his picture, I composed the scene with him way off center and then framed

the shot so that I didn’t cut off any of the dzong.

As you can tell, the image is cropped to the panoramic format. I feel that

cropping made the picture look more interesting than a full-frame shot.

As with earlier pictures in this chapter, I used a wide-angle setting on my

zoom lens, used a small f-stop, and focused one-third into the scene. As a

result, the entire scene was in focus.

Don’t Settle for Less

On my fi rst day in Thimphu, Bhutan’s capital city, I took several photo-

graphs of this man smoking a pipe while sitting by some prayer wheels at

the Memorial Chorten (religious structure). This is not one of them (

Figure

5.6

). Those pictures were OK, but the light level was low and fl at, and I

felt I could do better. I knew that I could go back the next day, so I warmed

up by taking pictures and getting him used to having me around.

쑿 FIGURE 5.5

Tech info: Canon

EOS 1Ds Mark II, Canon

17-40mm lens @ 20mm.

Exposure: 1/125 sec. @ f/8.

ISO 400.

씰 FIGURE 5.6

Tech info: Canon EOS

1Ds Mark II, Canon

17-40mm lens @ 20mm.

Exposure: 1/125 sec. @ f/8.

ISO 400.