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…
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…
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….
Today I’m going to start a series of posts going into more detail about what makes a great photo. I did touch on this way back on 29 September and introduced what I think are the six fundamental aspects of a photo – five of them have a technical element and one is, perhaps, more subjective. Exposure…
As a follow-up to my post about the most expensive photographs ever sold, I thought I’d take the opportunity to talk a bit about what makes a great photograph – and perhaps more importantly, what can spoil one. This is my most-viewed photograph on Flickr. There are many factors that go to making a good…
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