Quoting Camman

I didnt want to post this in the "Digital Camera Example Thread" because I wanted to see some pictures people took as art and not just like an example of how pictures look on their digital camera.

Now let me start off by saying, I dont claim to be an artist, or a photographer or anything like that, I just have a new hobby of heading out with my digital camera and take pictures of stuff because it's fun for me, its a pretty low-cost activity, and sometimes I take pictures I really like. Here's some stuff I shot today, I'd love to see photos other people take if they're into just heading out with the camera as well, any comments/criticism/tips are also more than welcome! these are just 4 of them that I really liked and thought came out the best.

Some stuff I shot today, check it out, comment if youd like

You did well. If you want some wild effects, try running these through PhotoPaint... I like the central link in link-through with watertower having water tower framed in one fence link opening, and if you get too close, with a digital, the links will blur to get whole pic inside link unless it is a small object. Digital cams can be "far-sighted." These have a "don't fence me OUT" feel.

With a good pure normal camera, the pixel res is so tight, that folks who are pro artists are using 8 MP cameras to get these effects in fine focus with foreground and background flattened visually enough to record both in detail. You can get whole pic in a single link with both being detailed in final product, but you start with TWO pictures to get that from a digital source that is not hugely expensive. One of link, with everything else cut out, then a pic of what you want in it. what you want in it becomes background pic, the frame object gets layered on top of it in digital editign software. Photopaint, and Pasint Shop Pro can layer pics like this, and have tools to fade things in and out. You can select an area, wipe it to transparent, then have another pic below or above it and get artwork, but two pics are the starting point for even my 4 MP Camedia. That is how you do what marc suggests with a digital and have both in focus.

You have a good focal compromise in your artwork, now crop and see how far you can blow up the single link and tower. If your camera can natively save Tiff, and you can work with those tiffs, those will blow up better and retaiin edges, especially for radical blowups. For black and whites with no more than 255 gray scale steps, you can use .gif also, and that will be better than JPG for this one editing thing as far as how far you can blow things up without fuzzing them all to heck.

The corner pic is nice, but if you could drop soem of the hyper-bright washout and imitate sun through a thin cloud as far as diffusion you could get a sharp corner and have a sun splash effect that is slightly less doing a washout.

You have the basic edgy "realism art" idea well illustrated, Camman.