Sometimes our images are taken on someone else’s schedule, so we can’t wait for the best light or circumstances. The best we can do is to grab a solid composition and proper exposure and if we really like the image we can put in the effort to use advanced (extreme) image processing techniques to get the most out of them at a later time.

What Anthropics Portrait Professional Studio 10 does, is puts the option for such corrections within reach of almost anyone without the steep learning curve of Photoshop.

Above is a scan of a print my grandfather took of my grandmother’s 1963 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible, quite a car in those days. Yup, it’s suspended in the air by the stream of water coming from the fire hydrant underneath it.

From our location all we could see was a ball of color and treetops, no rainbows, no explanation for the color ball, and other than taking a picture of just the sky or the sky and treetops there was no obvious composition available.

When you’re deciding what to point your camera at, think about if you want to show a picture of a pretty building, or if you want to tell a story of a pretty building.

This is the third part in our “Pointing Your Camera” series which is designed to help you filter the scene your eyes are seeing, and find that memorable scene your camera can see.