All posts tagged: composition

Family

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I just want to show you a few pictures of my immediate family – not everyone though! So far, here are my parents and my nan. As soon as I manage to get proper pictures of my brother I will try to show them here too. I like these two pictures because they were completely unprepared! They were taken some time ago during summer. I love this picture, because they show a great loving couple after more than 30 years of marriage! I can’t believe I managed to get a picture of my nan where she doesn’t appear covering her face. She doesn’t like appearing in pictures! Whenever my parents come to London, we walk and walk for hours! I’m glad I have fun parents – and a bit crazy! My mum is always up to something, and always making jokes. Here, my nan was probably telling me off for taking her picture!! I hope you liked this peek at my family! More stuff to come soon!

picture of Big Ben and cars at night

Shutter and diaphragm, friends or foes?

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In case whenever I mention shutter or diaphragm, or f stop, you are left there wondering what exactly I’m talking about, and to avoid you thinking I’m talking about windows, or anatomy, or whatever it is you’re thinking, I’ve decided to quickly write a bit about these 2 pieces of a camera, see if I can shed some light on the topic – wish me good luck! It’s worth noting that sometimes you have both elements combined in one! SHUTTER (I’ve found a video in YouTube that might help seeing how it works. Look at the speed!) This is simply the part of the camera that controls how long light is going to get through. It would work like your eyelid. The longest it’s open, the more light will go through. Simple, isn’t it? Now, cameras are very sensitive nowadays. At the beginning of photography, people had to stay still for even 3 minutes to be captured in an image! Can you imagine it? They even had some neck and head supports to help keep the pose for that long! That’s …

hand bw with blue filter

Composition – Colour

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Let’s start with the first part of this tutorial. We already did a brief introduction, but now we’re going to talk about colour, as per the index! Colour It is undeniable that colour has an effect on how we perceive an image. A photograph doesn’t have the same impact in black and white than it does in colour. Even when we have colours, there’s a difference in how we perceive the photograph based on how strong (or saturated) those colours appear. Thanks to digital photography we can now choose whether to have an image in colour or black and white after the picture has been taken. Before, it was a decision that had to me made prior to the photo being taken, depending on what message one wanted to send. This was done by choosing the type of film. I’m not going to argue all the advantages of digital photography but in my opinion, you had more control over the image before. When I say control, I am aware digital cameras offer many more options …

Composition – Introduction

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Hello everyone! Finally it’s here: the tutorial on composition. You might have read already the one I did on colour correction a while ago. I promised I would do another one about composition, and I’ve finally got around to doing it. Calling it tutorial might be a bit of an overstatement, but well… I should probably say something like: tips on composition, as I’m really no expert, and my images don’t look absolutely fantastic. Still, if some of the stuff I know helps you get more out of your photograph, I will consider it a success! So… shall we get down to business? All of us can tell the difference between a bad image and a great image. Note that when I say bad, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the photograph is bad in itself, sometimes we may actually go after certain look for a specific purpose. Also, I might think something is good, but someone else might not like it. However, we definitely know when an image has the wow factor. A photograph is …