Considering the idea of perfect lines in the wild is a truly bold move! Lines serve to guide the visual reading we all experience in one way or another when “standing” in front of a photograph worthy of your attention. Tersha aimed this week’s challenge toward finding lines in nature, which can be horizontal, vertical, […]
Author: Federico Alegria
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.
There’s something about nature that draws people to register with a camera. Photographing our geographic surroundings is a practice as old as photography itself. For this challenge, Tersha required images of frames captured within nature, sub-framing, as others would call it. Here, we’ve selected just a handful of all the great shots that were published […]
We usually imagine light and shadow or dark and bright visual struggles when we think about contrast. But one compositional element requires a very interesting visual skill; achieving contrast by the aid of colour. Nowadays, you likely already know how colors follow a very well-structured physical linear hierarchy. But only when this spectrum is transformed […]
Before finding my documentary voice, street photography was the genre I felt more interested in. In fact, that’s the cause for my personal philosophy on using unintrusive or inconspicuous cameras for capturing human behavior in its most pristine form. And which are the most stealthy cameras for this type of imagery? Smartphone-based ones! This week, […]
We welcome some broad landscape shots in Tersha’s Smartphone Photography set! The curious thing about landscape photography is that one doesn’t simply go out and capture whatever crosses our sight. One should always acknowledge that we are just witnessing what nature is willing to unveil to us. Sometimes, reaching such cohesiveness requires patiently scouting, and […]
Next in Tersha’s Smartphone Photography set, some clean architectural textures using a smartphone! Although it may look simple, architecture photography is quite a challenging genre. But when done well, it can be substantially rewarding. Like other outdoor photography, the best time to shoot architecture is the golden and blue hours, allowing for some beautiful long […]
