Welcome to the weekly Light Stalking community wrap up! I’m literally sitting on the ground while writing this newsletter, and I realised something curious about contrast in our photography. If something defines our most-beloved craft as anything close to language, is the use of contrast for highlighting that to be said on the shot. Now, […]
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Federico has a decade of experience in documentary photography, and is a University Professor in photography and research methodology. He's a scientist studying the social uses of photography in contemporary culture who writes about photography and develops documentary projects. Other activities Federico is involved in photography are curation, critique, education, mentoring, outreach and reviews. Get to know him better here.
Welcome to the weekly Light Stalking photography wrap up! Next in our visual metaphors set, one of the hardest themes I’ve ever seen! Diane went all in and made the call for “abstract emotions”. Surprisingly, she used an article I wrote back in 2018 about abstract photography and how to get inspired when approaching this […]
Welcome to the weekly Light Stalking community wrap up! Next in our visual metaphors – hidden messages! A theme that has triggered some nice responses — starting with Patrick who said the following right after Diane’s call: This is another one right up my street , can’t wait to see what you guys come up […]
This week, Diane announced the start of a new set on “Visual Metaphors” challenge — in which she called for images reflecting the weight of time. Immediately — right after reading the theme— my mind pulled a well-seasoned memory from the depths of my mind. Early in our lives, we learn that boredom is something […]
Photography is challenging, especially when it starts feeling purposeless. Thankfully, storytelling approaches offer a great deal of ease when it comes to existential or creative crises. Today, I want to share my experience about how colour temperature helps in achieving a consistent look across multiple images in a set or essay.
Last week, we went hard with colour by aiming to achieve emotion through landscape imagery. This week, we are sharing a generous batch of images our passionate community decided to post after Diane’s call on looking for singular hues in photography! Now that’s a challenge or what? Some of the criteria used to select the […]
