Veisiejai Warnings and Dangers

If you take a picture of dark high cross/chapel/statue on light background of sky and if you can see only black object with no details on light background:
1. Don't worry, take it easy, keep smiling :-),
2. Improve your digital picture using appropriate software (use gamma correction), look at my picture and compare with the same picture in previous tip (before improvement),
3. follow the links below for more, please.


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Have a great fun :-)

Look at my picture. It was taken using automatic set up of my digital camera. Hmm... black shape of cross-chapel-statue? with white sky in the background.

Well, it was very difficult, sometimes impossible to take good or even acceptable picture of dark object (cross/chapel) on light background (sky). There was too much contrast for each camera never mind how expensive it was.

What to do?
1. Try to lower the contrast:
- choose darker background (change angle to have more dark trees in the background or wait for... worse weather with darker sky),
- lighter the dark object (statue) with your flash lamp or any other lamp,
2. Try to choose film of lower speed (100 DIN),
3. Try to set up focus manually on the darker object.

This gate, on my picture, in front of Veisiaji parish church was closed. Hmm... at first I thought that the church was closed :-(((. But I went to the right and turned left round the corner of the wall. There was another gate there which was open :-))).

But all doors to the church were closed :-(((.
It was early afternoon on business day in June.