Photo: Real Beauty

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  Charles at 2009-09-03T17:16:36.

  Thanks for the crash course! I have very little experience with photography, and honestly navigating here makes me want to consider it as a new hobby… Sorting out the when and how!

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  Richard X. Thripp at 2009-09-04T20:56:50.

  You’re welcome! All you need is a camera and some time.

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  Charles at 2009-08-31T23:02:36.

  Good job with the tweaking, it looks real pro!

  If you hadn’t given it away I would have thought they were real!

  You say you burned off the edges, but if you don’t mind my saying the flowers are a bit off-center (goes off to the left). I don’t have the keenest eye so this might be totally irrelevant but I thought I’d give my 2 cents (you’ll be annoyed with that soon :))

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  Richard X. Thripp at 2009-08-31T23:36:50.

  Thanks Charles! The flowers are off-center because I didn’t crop and I didn’t center them right when taking the photos. Burning means darkening, whereas cropping means cutting off a portion of the photo.

  Burning is an old term from the film darkroom, where you would expose a negative onto light sensitive paper with a lamp. Most photographers would block the center of the lamp for a few seconds with their fingers or cardboard, so the edges would be exposed longer. In that case, you would say that the center is dodged (under-exposed), or the corners are burned (over-exposed).

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