Photography Tips

Differential focus is a term used to describe how an image has been designed by the photographer. The photographer intentionally keeps specific aspects of the image in sharp focus whilst allowing other parts to fall out of focus.

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How accurate is your camera’s exposure?

Photography Tips

Knowing the accuracy of your camera’s exposure meter is critical to achieving correct exposures by choice and not by chance. You may be aware of of the various metering systems your camera has, such as evaluative, centre weighted, partial and spot.

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Power of Black and White Photography

Photography Tips

The power of Black and White photography never ceases to amaze me. Depending on the type of image they are able to convey so much more than colour. Below are some examples of portraits all taken within a few minutes of each other yet they are able to take on completely differentpersona’s.

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Canon offers free fix for faulty mirrors on Mk1 EOS 5D

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A few isolated Canon EOS Mk1 cameras have developed a fault where the main mirror has become detached from the shutter mechanism and fallen into the camera. This has been caused by a deterioration in strength of the adhesion although there is no speculation whether this is caused by extreme conditions.

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Building Blocks for Visual Design for photography – Perspective

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Perspective enables us to represent the 3-D world within the two-dimensional visual design of a photograph. You create perspective through our representation of depth or distance on a flat surface. The third dimension is created through our arrangement of lines, shapes and textures within our visual design.

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Building Blocks for Visual Design for photography – Texture

Photography Tips

Texture is the visual building block that photographers are most likely to neglect in creating their compositions. Texture in the surface of your subject could be the threads in a woven material, movement or water or the roughness in the bark of a tree. On a larger scale it could patterns created over a landscape such as red poppies in a field of wheat.

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Building Blocks for Visual Design for photography – Shapes

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Shapes as the building block in visual design for photography. This continues from my original posting on the book Photographing the world around you.
As with lines, shapes are only visible or created though contrasts of tone and colour.

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