The lazy photographer’s way to opaque backgrounds
Professional photographers take pride in how well they compose their pictures. Time was when they all used film and did their own developing in (get this!) dark rooms. Nowadays though, with an ordinary digital camera and a bit of computer trickery, keen shutterbugs can get great results regardless of their level of experience. Shana and I fall somewhere in between the two extremes. We do enjoy the ease of digital photography but we don’t like to over-tweak an image after we’ve taken it. This morning was a gift though: once we saw how foggy it was, we just had to take a pic of our plants. And, thanks to the weather conditions, we didn’t have to spend half an hour finding the right settings for opaque backgrounds. It was simply a case of point ‘n’ shoot and ‘job done’. I mean, really, why waste time learning the software when you can just wait five minutes for the weather?
