This is a guest post by Shakira Duarte who you can find on Flickr! Photographing water drops is a hugely popular area of photography that we have covered before with the incredible photos of Steve Wall. Here, Shakira Duarte takes us through the steps needed to get your own stunning water drop photos. MATERIALS Camera, […]
Photographic Composition Articles
One of the great things about stepping up from compact cameras to SLRs is the amount of extra control you get over the final shot. While that control can be used in an almost infinite set of combinations, one of the more popular and effective ways to use it is with motion blur photographs. Photo […]
Composing a great photograph can be done in so many different ways that it seems more logical to talk about “guides” to composition rather than “rules” of composition. We have covered several compositional elements of photography previously such as the photographer’s rule of thirds and the s-curve, but let’s move on to some other less […]
A lot of the time, people miss a well composed shot simply because they didn’t take the time to seek out a slightly better alternative. When you have found a scene worth shooting, don’t forget to consider a few ways that you could improve the composition. It’s easier than you might think. Photo by Rob […]
This is a guest post by New Jersey wedding photographer, Julianne Markow. Check out her photography blog here too. Bokeh is something that makes non photographers say to you “Wow, that is an amazing photograph,” and the professionals tend to agree with them. The definition of bokeh is simply “blur” and comes from the Japanese […]
Negative space, by definition, is the empty space around the subject or focus of the photograph. If the edges of the photo frame the contents within, and the subject is the focal point, it’s possible that just about every photo, even macro’s and tight portrait shots can have negative space. Photo by joiseyshowa To really […]
