You have promised yourself that your next portrait shoot would be “next level” for your abilities. You want a set of portraits that could be considered fine art, and perfect for gallery enlargements. You want to capture your subject well, but you also want to grow in your abilities as a creative photographer.
Fortunately, fate would [...]
Photo by Johnny Blood
While repetition in the humdrum of daily life can at times be a little boring - capturing it in your photography can create an image with real impact.
Life is filled with patterns - many of which we overlook due to the business of our days - however once you get an eye [...]
Learning to see abstractly is one great way to add interest to your images. One of our forum members Andrew Raimist (see his blog here and flickr account here) submitted the following tutorial and images on the topic.
Learn to see abstractly by looking for geometrical forms and compelling compositions despite the “subject matter”. A good [...]
This post is by one of our forum members withlime. Learn more about her at her blog and Flickr Stream.
When I first started shooting I became so captivated with what I saw in the center of my viewfinder I would just clicked away. Only to find, after sending hours in the darkroom, there was some [...]
Photo by stevacek
When framing a landscape shot one of the types of environmental features that many photographers look for and like to incorporate in their shots is converging lines.
We’ve talked previously about how lines have the potential to add interest to an image - but multiple lines that converge together (or come close to one [...]
If you are new to working in Lightroom your first few weeks will be a steep learning curve.
Here are my top 5 mistakes to be aware of and avoid when you’re starting out. I hope they’ll save you wasting time, getting frustrated and generally tearing your hair out.
1. Think - Navigate on the left [...]
We had the announcement for the Olympus Tough 8000 a few weeks back, since then we have seen released the same sort of compacts from Canon and from Panasonic. Being naturally curious for “unbreakable stuff” I wanted to check one of them out and Olympus, as they were first out of the gate, got the [...]
Image by H@Ru
Next time you take your digital camera out and line it up for a shot pause before you press the shutter button and ask yourself:
“What is the Focal Point in this Picture?”
Some other ways to ask the same question might include - What is the central point of interest? What will draw the [...]
Yesterday I shared 5 ingredients of composition that I consider when setting up a shot. Today I’d like to talk about 5 more.
Framing
Image by foreversouls
Most of us use ‘frames’ to display our images when we hang them on walls for viewing - however ‘framing’ can be used within the composition of a shot to help [...]
Good Composition is a key element of good photographs yet is something that is hard to define.
Instead of looking at composition as a set of ‘rules’ to follow - I view it as a set of ingredients that can be taken out of the pantry at any point and used to make a great ‘meal’ [...]
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