Annick Vanderschelden's blog

Just found a new photo site. At first sight photographs being posted there are qualitative. I saw good pictures.

So I subscribed but then I 'discovered' it wasn't free. Only first photos posted are free and some tools can't be used unless you pay...more or less like that.






Uploaded the above pic to this site...




Something else...

Last week I was in Vlissingen to photograph reptiles in a zoo but I didn't quite like the zoo too much, 'cause animals were difficult to photograph 'cause of light conditions. Colour temperature as we photographers say..pff. Plus they were for obvious reasons behind -sometimes dirty- glass.

I went also to shoot gulls in flight near the Western Scheldt. In very windy conditions these birds are really amazing to watch.

At the same time boats from the sea are passing by in Vlissingen and are escorted by little boats on the Western Scheldt to arrive eventually in the Port of Antwerp. Here is a picture I took...if you look carefully you see a little boat turning around the big one...the blurred background is Breskens. Point of view is Vlissingen. Other boats photographed here can be found in my new album 'boats,..'. Feel free to visit my photographs in the albums and critique them.



Enjoy your day...

See also new launched album.

The King.

21 July. National Day.

Eos and myself were there. 4 Gigabyte shooting. 300 pictures.

High temperature. Heat.

Mission: Photographing The King of Belgium.

Stand and wait in the crowd. Military and police refused to let me fulfill my mission:-).

Albert 2, King of Belgium noticed me as you can see in picture...



Another shot...



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More royal pics in a future post...Prince Philip, Princess Mathilde, Queen Fabiola,...

I refer also to the photoalbum.

Another album with festivity photographs will be launched shortly..

Here are a few pictures of Jules. Last week I took them in my dad's garden. Light conditions were not so good. Hard sunlight is difficult to manage. But being an extrodinary photographer I could cope with it:-).

I took this pictures with my Canon350D in RAW and high resolution jpeg at the same time.
I used jpeg format to edit in photoshop elements and followed a course or workshop in a dutch computer magazine called Clickx. See my links.

As a result I give you my own tutorial and at the same time I share my portraits with, dear reader;-).

So after downloading the colour picture. I go for the quick fix, do the necessary adjustments like auto brightness and auto color and USM sharpening (not too much to avoid noise). Also cropping.

Afterwards I go the menu and select enhance, adjust colour, remove colours. As a result you have a black and white. But the colours are still there. You can verify this by going to the modus and you will see...RGB.

So that said ...you go once again to enhance, adjust colours and finally colour variations.
Increase the red here two times and decrease the blue also two times.

As a result you have a sepia effect.

Above you have the edited colour photo. Edited means quick enhance..brightness, autocolour and sharpening plus cropping and framing. Framing and coppyright signature I usely do with Photofiltre ' cause it is easy.


Here after after following the procedure mentioned above.


Started from same picture and applied a filter in filter menu...

Enjoy photography...
Annick Vanderschelden

Great place for macro photographers. Not really macro but rather close up pictures.
I have taken lots of them. In the album you find a few post processed and resized etc.
More info about The Zwin and The Butterfly Garden you find here.

Yesterday I was photographing in The Zwin after closing hours. Nobody was there except the animals with their different sounds. It is an experience.