Sepia is a camera setting that takes out the little bit of coloring in a photo
Compare this photo (of my solar light experiments) with this photo:
Personally this is not the best example of when to use Sepia because you need a subject with high black and white contrasts to make it more outstanding.
My camera has the negative effect option (I have a Sony Ericsson camera phone and the newer models have more pixels available, mine goes to 8 megapixels)
When using the negative effect you need contrasts too.
@Babyboomerjill needs help in stopping window reflecting glare. Basically if you see your reflection that is an effect you want to avoid. You can set up your camera on a stand so that a window does not reflect the photographer in the photo but you will still see a camera and a stand. I may tomorrow when it is sunny try to do some experiments to block reflections.
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Neat! I have never been very good at understanding light and photography. Some of the pictures posted on Xanga are really cool and I am sure that understanding how it works makes a big difference.
I never get how to use the camera properly and I do take lots of pics but I guess I'm the sloppy kind of photographer :P this pics are great, took a lil time to load cuz I'm experimenting troubles with my connection but I got to see them after a few footprints :)
Love photography all my life. Am working on becoming a professional photographer.
That is nice. I try to do them on Picasa. And even Photobucket has the option of providing colours for the phtotgraph.
The technic enhances the art!!
While studying photography in college, we coated copper plates with photographic emulsion and exposed them to an arc light through a negative. Then we processed the emulsion, hardening it where it had reacted to light and washed the soft unexposed portions away. Next we etched the copper plate in a weak acid bath washed the whole plate and applied ink to the etched surface. The inked copper plate then became a print taken from the negative and was very reminiscent of sepia tone prints.
Every time I see a sepia tone I am reminded of this process.
i like sepia colored photos. they give a sense of "nostalgic" feel to the photos.