October 19 2007. Spectacular clouds at sunset over Boyd Lake near Fort Collins after a very windy paddling. What do you think about this composition?
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Some guidelines to apply to your photographs when shooting landscapes.
In this second installment of the Photo Tip series, we want to share with you an exercise that will slow you down, train your eye to better evaluate compositional elements and increase your ratio of ‘keepers’ to rejects.
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Episode 4 of my photography series discusses and demonstrates composition (rule of thirds, golden mean or ratio, etc). You’ll also want to check out my blog – binarygraphite.blogspot.com – as it’s supplemented with additional information and links to sites describing this topic in detail. Hope you enjoy, remember to rate (5 stars!), and subscribe so you can stay up to date with my future videos.
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Amateur photographer’s preview of the Nikon D5100 DSLR. For the full story go to www.amateurphotographer.co.uk
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Adorama Photography TV presents: In this episode Mark will show us some tips for becoming a better photographer using the basic elements of composition. Take a closer look at some of Mark’s photos, and explore related videos and articles here: www.adorama.com Visit www.adorama.com for more photography videos!
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The Aperture Foundation, the Photography Department at Parsons The New School for Design, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics present a new season of panel discussions focusing on photography. Speakers including George Baker, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Vice-Chair of UCLA, Department of Art History; Andrea Geyer, artist and Assistant Professor of Fine Art, Parsons The New School for Design; and artists Paul Pfeiffer and Krzysztof Wodiczko, discuss projection and installation strategies many contemporary artists have used to create immersive and cinema-like experiences in their works and exhibitions. Contemporary artists have started departing from the large, tableau vivant treatments of the photograph, as seen in works by Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, and Gregory Crewdson. In recent years, they have employed a variety of projection devices to incorporate their photographs into temporal, audio-visual experiences, which recall cinematic contexts yet retain distinctly photographic qualities. On the surface, these works seem to meld experimental and structuralist filmmaking lineages and large-scale photographic practices prevalent in the past two decades. At the same time, the new practitioners of the projected photograph are expanding the definition of photography itself. The lecture series is presented with generous support from the Kettering Family Foundation and the Henry Nias Foundation. The program is made …
Our new columnist, Art Wolfe, provides us today with an essay titled Constructing The Composition: Angor Wat.
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The Apple iPad arrived this weekend along with the Easter Bunny and chocolate eggs. Rabbits and eggs are pagan fertility symbols that have somehow become intertwined with the Christian holiday, but there was something of an appropriate irony in Apple choosing this particular weekend to launch the iPad, since it is in many ways a harbinger of things to come.
I’ve been becoming familiar with mine for the past few days and continue to believe that it’s going to be a game-changer, especially for professional photographers, because of what it implies for the publishing industry. Print media will never be the same again.
There are also some new iPad specific apps that are either paticularly cool, or that may appeal to nature and landscape photographers, and one of these that I quite enjoy is Emerald Observatory.
Whether you’re an astronomy buff, a time freak, or a photographer looking for information about sunrise and sunset times, as well as the moon’s phase and position, Emerald Observatory will be the best .99 cents that you’ll spend this week.
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The Luminous Landscape – What’s New
Watch a clip from the Beauty and the Beast photography seminar. John Woodward explains composition.
photogiver.com – Learn to see the elements of composition and how everything works together to carry the viewers eye from detail to detail
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I gladly offer this basic, 5-part series of photography lessons FOR FREE! Our world has become increasingly visual in the way we communicate. We not only take more pictures, we show them, send them and display them to more eyes than ever before. Wouldn’t it be nice to capture and show better pictures? In this series, I get us thinking about… 1. How to tell a story with our photographs by understanding the 4 dimensions associated with the art. 2. The basic elements of “composing” our photographic story. How do we put things in our viewfinders so people get the essence of that moment that inspired us. 3. Understanding exposure, light and color and how they combine to say what we want. 4. How lens choice and operation effects focus and how focus effects what we show in our photos 5. The people in our photographs and the people we are showing them to. Please enjoy these lessons. They’re not meant to be comprehensive and their not meant to be exhaustive or advanced. That doesn’t mean I don’t encourage any questions you might want to post for either me to try to answer or anyone else who comes along. Please, be kind, helpful and enjoy.
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