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Digital Photography - Ideas for Experimentation

Consider Black and White

SUMMARY: Consider using your digital camera's grayscale mode for sharp, artistic looking photographs.

When taking pictures, you may want to take a couple in black-and-white or grayscale mode for experimentation. Doing that may add artistic edginess to your photos, and I've found landscape or city skylines to be perfect subjects for such photo experiments.

Or, most photo manipulation software support a "Convert to grayscale" mode. If you don't like the results for a particular photo, try adding more contrast to a photo after its conversion. This can make some photos look more dramatic.

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