NicoleB Photography

I’ve done a little test shooting yesterday to show you what you can do, even when you don’t get all too close.

I’ve used my Nikon D300 and a Nikkor VR 18-200mm for this shot. I’m getting the hang of it a bit better by now.
Which leads me to the point again: Don’t get frustrated too easy, keep shooting, trying and learning.

Up front I’ve made one big mistake, I didn’t use a tripod, like I suggested in the tip section here. I guess the shot could be crystal clear even after major cropping, if I had done that.

This is the shot I took with full zoom length and getting as close as possible. I still have to get the hang of focusing and framing correctly with this (for me) big Baby, but like mentioned before, I’ll keep trying

(Click on the picture to see a larger version)

This is the shot after serious cropping. Just to show you what you can get out of a shot with small toys on your computer.

You don’t need Photoshop for that. A simple free program will do the trick here. All of them do cropping, most even offer some editing along with it.
Here are the ones I’ve tested:

Picasa (my favorite program to sort my pictures - I couldn’t lay my hands on Lightroom in Kuwait

Gimp

(ouh, there are more, but I forgot - let me know if you know some and I’ll add them)

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