Sometimes, as a photographer, you’re going to want to lead people to look at a specific part of your images. There are a lot of various techniques that can be used to help you draw the eye of a viewer in situations like this, so let’s look at a few of them. Compose With Lines […]
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How to use your camera to its (and your) potential.
Some might argue the point that photography is an art form. Training your eye to see the world and translating your perspective visually takes time and patience. Yet, there’s also technique involved in creating arresting images. There are ways to quickly improve your photography and impact your creative vision. Let’s take a look at a […]
Camera shake is the cause of many blurry photos and a frustration to new photographers. The photo can be perfectly framed, in focus, but still not sharp. At the core, the result of this is a shutter speed that’s too slow. But when is a shutter speed too slow and how can you help avoid […]
One of the fundamental tools that a photographer has at his/her disposal is the ability to record time. This isn’t just the moment in time, or the ‘decisive moment’, as Cartier-Bresson called it, but the duration of the time interval as well. It’s a matter of when and how long. We can not only get the […]
When talking about photography, “ambience” can be a very tricky term to pin down. Usually when talking about ambience (as distinct from “ambient light“), a photographer is referring to visual elements in a photograph that capture the mood, character or feeling of a place or thing – a visual element that allows one to recall […]
Behind the often stolid walls of our galleries and museums lies objects of often indescribable beauty. Art, archaeology, artifacts taken out of their context and displayed for us to admire, comprehend, understand and where we often feel the inadequacy of our own capacity to duplicate, replicate, imitate or emulate. Never fear. These are also places […]