Back at the end of May, I went to a Photographic Angle Exhibition called Monochrome. A really interesting mix of portraits, landscapes, street and abstract works. I really liked this shot of London by James Fell. And the self-portrait here by John Timbrell As always, I took my camera and got a couple of shots of my…
This is the last in the series I’ve been running about analysing photographs. Over the past few weeks we’ve covered Exposure, Focus, Depth of Field, Colour, Contrast, Composition Rules and Composition aesthetics. Today I’m going to explain the steps I go through when viewing a picture. Back at the end of 2014 I was asked by…
This is the second part of my thoughts on Composition in photography. Last time we talked about guidelines that might help you, today we’re looking at more nebulous aspects of a photo; A good photograph will almost always tell a story and part of that narrative involves setting the mood and atmosphere of the picture;…
There’s a great article in Amateur Photographer this week which has kind of stolen my thunder with respect to composition, but for those that don’t read it I’ll talk today about some guidelines that exist for improving composition. Probably the most common compositional guideline is the Rule of thirds which I discussed in the post on…
Over the past few weeks we’ve looked at five of the six aspects that I believe define a photograph. I term them as being “technical” aspects as they are measurable or identifiable; Exposure, Focus, Depth of Field, Colour and Contrast. In these posts I’ve tried to explain a little about what each parameter is, why…
Contrast is defined in this article as; A tool that photographers use to direct viewers’ attention to their subject. There are two types: Tonal Contrast and Color Contrast. TC refers to the difference in tones from the lightest tone to the darkest tone, in other words, the difference in tones from white to grey to…
HISTORY Photography has come a long way from the early days of sepia tinted images and cyanotypes which we are all familiar with to where anyone can print a colour photo on their home printer in seconds. Colour photography and film weren’t really common until the sixties and most people shot in black and white….
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