Tag Archive | "Composition"

At Home: “Angle the Handle”

Monday, June 21, 2010

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At Home: “Angle the Handle”

Today we woke up to a nice sunny morning here in Sydney and the low angled sunshine beaming through our kitchen window created a strong shadow of this handle on a pair of sliding doors leading to our laundry room behind the kitchen...

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The Magic of Black and White

Thursday, May 27, 2010

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The Magic of Black and White

Today Andrew S. Gibson publishes part two of his 'The Magic of Black and White' two-part eBook series which is available through Craft & Vision. Find out more about 'The Magic of Black and White'...

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Photo Critique No. 6 – “Girl and Sculpture”

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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Photo Critique No. 6 – “Girl and Sculpture”

"It was an unusually warm October, and we stopped in a square near Notre Dame Cathedral to rest while we ate our ice creams. There was a huge sculpture of a head resting on a hand, and the children were playing on it. We thought it was a wonderful sight - at home, someone would have chased the children off it!" Read the critique...

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The Top Five Best Books on Composition in Photography

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

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The Top Five Best Books on Composition in Photography

Learning the skill of how to make an image, how to design your image by teaching yourself composition will lay the foundation for creating great and beautiful images. Teaching yourself composition to the extent that it becomes second nature will leave you free to concentrate on the other ingredients that need to into your image to make it great...

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Photo Critique No. 4 – “At Piha”

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

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Photo Critique No. 4 – “At Piha”

This week’s image was submitted by Jonathan Allcock. It’s a picture from New Zealand, but I’m not entirely sure if this is where Jonathan resides, or if the picture was taken during a visit there by Jon. It looks like the photo was taken with a Canon PowerShot S3 set to an f/4 aperture and a shutter speed [...]

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What Moves You? Postcards from Denmark

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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What Moves You? Postcards from Denmark

One of the things I've been thinking a lot about lately is that there is always something that moves you when you take a picture. It can be the light, a feeling, an expression, a mood, a colour, a shape, a texture, a form and many other things.

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Photo Critique No. 2 – “We Recycle!”

Friday, November 27, 2009

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Photo Critique No. 2 – “We Recycle!”

This image titled “We Recycle!” was submitted by Parker Mayberry, citizen of the world. I’m not sure if Parker is a beginning photographer, intermediate or advanced photographer. I’m not sure if this image has any particular meaning to Parker, or indeed what camera settings were used to capture this image. Does it matter? Not really. Having the background information is often helpful, sure, but at the end of the day it is really all about the image. So let’s jump right in.

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Photo Critique No. 1 – “Fishing in Paradise”

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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Photo Critique No. 1 – “Fishing in Paradise”

Welcome to the premiere of the weekly photo critique at Photography 24/7. Carolyn Fletcher from Eufaula, Oklahoma in the US was quick off the mark submitting this truly beautiful image which she has entitled “Fishing in Paradise”. Thank you very much to Carolyn for offering up her image for the weekly photo critique. I have been looking [...]

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The Life of a (Cowboy) Photograph

Monday, September 14, 2009

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In this post I wrote about Sam Abell’s great photo book The Life of a Photograph. In this video Sam Abell talks about his book and the picture that his peer photographers most admire. The picture in question can be found on page 11 in the book. It is an amazingly complex – yet superbly [...]

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