 | September 15, 2011 Breaking news from America's top photo magazines |   | |  | Want to set your photography apart from the crowd and get images that can be even more compelling? Lose the color! Think “wildlife” and you’ll likely think “color”—vivid plumage, multitone fur, brilliant scales, all against backdrops of verdant green and sky blue. So naturally everyone shoots wildlife in color. It’s all the rage these days—particularly in nature shooting—to crank up color saturation to make photos stand out. But while vivid colors certainly catch the eye, sometimes taking the saturation in the other direction can have just as much, if not more, impact. READ MORE >> |
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