More viewers' pictures # 9

Ram Hardikar is the photographer who took this colorful picture.

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The photographer of this peaceful-looking little fellow is his father, Andrei. His tip for photographing babies, submitted with the picture: "Use natural light as much as possible."

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"This is the end result of continuous feeding of backyard birds and gaining their trust," says Washington photographer, John Davey. "It takes time and patience but to have a wild bird perch on your finger is well worth it."

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Edmonton, Alberta photographer, Sheree Zielke writes, "Just found your site and loved it. Thought this might make a good submission. I took this photo with my Kodak digicam last year, out back of my mother's cabin in Manitoba. The colors were just stunning. Hope you like it as much as I do."

Using electronic flash, Sheree provided sufficiently-bright illumination for the foreground objects, while at the same time providing proper exposure for the evening's fading background illumination, giving this image depth and three-dimensionality.

You can learn more about this technique by reading up on Fill flash.

"I ran across your website a few days ago," writes April Johnson. "I have been taking pictures for several years as a hobby," she says. "I would like to submit one of my photographs. This one might fall under best compositions.

"I am located in Chickamauga, Georgia," says April. "I use a Nikon D50 SLR. I took a hanging container of assorted flowers and sat it in front of the support beam on my porch, leaving the container out of the photo, just capturing the tops of the flowers. I am really pleased with how it came out. Flowers are my favorite subject," she writes.



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