I accidentally deleted my question so here it is again.. :P
"I probably sound like a newb asking this :P but how do you make the background of your pictures black? like in some pictures it's just a flower and a black background. how do you do it?!?"
I googled Picassa and uploaded their free version where I make collages in.
one way to do it is once you got it going go into settings and blick on background ..then there is a color chart click on black. and maybe if you like put a frame around the picture. click on the following link to see my collage. you can make something like that with only one picture as well. http://365project.org/bruni/365
I am only an amateur, but I can tell you the way I got the result below. I brought the flower indoors, put it on my dining room table, turned off the overhead light, and had only a slight amount of light from next rooms coming in. Then, I turned on the Macro setting for my camera (this one was a PandS Olympus) and got very close. The flash came up and from there I played with the distance I held my camera from the flower. Some distances lit up the brown table, so I adjusted from there. I did not do any editing besides cropping.
This one was taken during a hike. These plants tended to be in shade, but I found this one that had light on it like a spotlight. So, I used my 55-200mm lens and took the shot zoomed in quite a bit (160mm, according to the EXIF data) to look almost macro-like. With a wide open aperture and long focal length the out of focus area behind the subject gets pretty soft so the shady areas tend to look black.
Hey Ashley. I happened to click on this and recognized that shot :). I've been asked this a lot since I have many (too many) shots with this effect. I took a quick stab at explaining my process with the below shot. Click on it to read about it. Almost all of my shots with black backgrounds are done via flash. Super easy.
I haven't tried this myself very much, but I read that if you use a flash and the distance between your camera and the subject is less than the distance between the subject and the background, the background will look black in your photo.
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one way to do it is once you got it going go into settings and blick on background ..then there is a color chart click on black. and maybe if you like put a frame around the picture. click on the following link to see my collage. you can make something like that with only one picture as well.
http://365project.org/bruni/365
I am only an amateur, but I can tell you the way I got the result below. I brought the flower indoors, put it on my dining room table, turned off the overhead light, and had only a slight amount of light from next rooms coming in. Then, I turned on the Macro setting for my camera (this one was a PandS Olympus) and got very close. The flash came up and from there I played with the distance I held my camera from the flower. Some distances lit up the brown table, so I adjusted from there. I did not do any editing besides cropping.
to get the black background afterwards I edit in photoshop