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Excelentes ideas para mejorar las fotografías panorámicas. La 3 es muy buena:

3. Look for a Focal Point

All shots need some sort of focal point to them and landscapes are no different - in fact landscape photographs without them end up looking rather empty and will leave your viewers eye wondering through the image with nowhere to rest (and they’ll generally move on quickly).

Focal points can take many forms in landscapes and could range from a building or structure, a striking tree, a boulder or rock formation, a silhouette etc.

Think not only about what the focal point is but where you place it. The rule of thirds might be useful here.

Related Reading - Focal Points in Photography

 

11 Surefire Tips for Improving Your Landscape Photography

(vía delicious y medio interné más )

I’m starting out with digital photography as a hobby. In fact I’m just starting out with photo altogether, the digital part it’s just because it’s extremely convenient, and cheap where it needs to be.

I’m on a mac MBP, so for photo editing I could choose between Lightroom and Aperture. I tried both; Aperture more than once and for some strange reason I could never get it to work. Same gear (MBP + external USB drive) and LR just eat my iPhoto collection (without tags or any other iPhoto-related info) while Aperture just crawled along. I had all my iPhoto collection completely reorganized and re-tagged in under two hours while aperture after three could not finish the importing process. After two unsuccesfull attempts, I just gave up.

So it’s LR for me

Along the way I’ll post any relevant tidbits about my hobby. Today I found that LR (as a pleasant plus) has a way to create, save and export presets and those presets are being actively swapped and posted across the Internet. That’ s really a big plus because in tech-related matters, what’s more important than the features or the price, it’s the ecosystem. The more people use something, the more people network together, ask questions and give answers. Eventually someone provides services and products around that thechnology, and then you’re not alone using something that nobody has ever heard about, but are part of a community. I’m talking about the tools, not the art, of course

Here are some nice spots to find LR related stuff:

• onOne Software - PhotoPresets with One-Click WOW!
  
• digitalmedia.oreilly.com — Inside Adobe Lightroom
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: the Ars Technica review
• DigitalFreak.net : Lightroom 1.0 vs. Aperture 1.5
• Inside Lightroom
• Adobe Lightroom Killer Tips
• Lightroom Tips Tricks
• Tips and tricks for using Adobe Lightroom @ Oaktree Imaging
• Lightroom @ Sean McCormak’s
• Lightroom News
• Lightroom Extra
• James Duncan Davidson: Using Lightroom at Etel
• Flickr group: Adobe Lightroom
• http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Learning Center @ NAPP

I shamefully swiped some of these at Amit Karmakar’s blog: Lightroom Resources

Google for it, and you’ll find thousands more to choose from

** UPDATED Apr 25 **