Negative Space

Image Composition – Some Guidelines

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…

Shot of the Week

The theme for the Flickr 52 Week Challenge this week was set by your truly. Setting a theme to challenge 500+ people from all over the World is not as easy as it sounds – in my mind it needs to be open enough so as not to hinder people and ideally it should be…

Turning A Negative Into A Positive

Negatives have, for a long time, been part of photography parlance but the negative I want to talk about today is Negative Space, as this was the topic last week on Flickr 52 Weeks the 2015 Edition. It’s not a concept that is common to beginners but once you get to know about it and…

Shot of the Week

Last weekend we drove down to South Wales for our niece’s 18th Birthday fancy dress party. This posed something of a dilemma – should I take the DSLR and flash and get some well-balanced photos of the people there or should I take the Lumix TZ60 to get some fun snaps of the evening recognising…

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