We want our skills in photography to enable us to take photographs to convey a message, it could be a feeling, a sense of being or maybe desire. We need our photos to be clear, have a point and sharp so the viewer understands the message we want to come across. What we do not want is a sense of…
This post was inspired by some comments about photography in other articles. I hope this is helpful and clears up a whole range of things about DSLR cameras. Copious amounts of websites talk about photography and at the same time, bombard people with phrases that do not mean a great deal, and if new to photography, quite pointless because who…
This is the second article about composition in photography. The First Article is here. The Third Article is here. I am not very keen on the idea of rules in a creative subject like photography, kind of strangles the idea. So from here on, I will refer to any such things as guides. And this guide is about ‘Framing’, framing a…
This is a set of three articles regarding Photography Composition. This is the first article and will focus on the ‘Rule of Thirds’. The Second Article is here. The Third Article is here. When I first heard the term ‘Rule of Thirds‘, I thought ‘what!!! rules in taking a photo?‘. Well as it turns out it is a way of…
We all want to take sharper, more exciting and dramatic colorful photos and continually improve our photography skills as time goes by. I know I do, and I also realize that it is not possible to have every single photo I take to be a wonderful image. Personally, I expect about 1 in maybe 5 or 10 photos to make me smile,…
Sometimes a photo could do with a tiny tweak in the right direction to get the focus and atmosphere we want. It could be brightness, contrast, saturation or we might want that fresh sunny morning bokeh effect. We may want whoever looks at the photo to see and feel the moment and focus on that part of the photo that…
It is not a nice feeling when I get home and look at that one photograph that I thought would be amazing only to see that the background was awful. So what can I do? Quite often I find a brilliant subject for a photo only to be destroyed by an awful background or colours that would affect the final shot. The background is very…