Composition techniques you need to know noun 1. 1. the nature of something’s ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up. Composition is something of a beast. There are many rules and considerations when…
What are F stops? Imagine you have a window in your room that you can open and close to let in more or less light. If you open the window all the way, a lot of light comes in and…
Advanced Architecture Photography Alignment is a mechanism for composing an image that has prominent lines, concentrating on this aims to align two or more of these lines, for example on an office building, aligning the top of the building with…
Using a scanner as a device to capture images is relatively untapped. Sometimes referred to as ‘Scanography’ the process is as simple as it sounds, take an item and scan it. The results vary depending on light leeks, ambient light…
Anamorphic lenses, what are they? what’s the point of building your own? Well…the answer is because it looks cool, really cool. Anamorphic lenses allow you to achieve true widescreen on your digital SLR by squashing the image onto the camera…
With photographers such as Dan Mountford, Florian Imgrund, Jon Duenas, Sara K Byrne and Cristoffer Reilander championing the renaissance of double exposure photography for a new generation, we’re going to explore how to successfully create a double exposure portrait. Dan…
Light trail photography or long exposure photography is often the first thing you want to start experimenting with when you first get a digital or film SLR. The idea that a device can capture cool effects of time passing and…
Still life photography Ideas – Large format and 35mm Photography Substituting film for photographic paper In this still life photography experiment we’re going to use photographic paper to create a negative rather than the traditional film method. I wanted to…
Still life photography project idea – Mobile phone photography After my previous post about black and white still life photography, which put forward the idea that it wasn’t necessary to possess massively expensive equipment in order to take good photographs,…
Converting images to black and white using Lightroom First off we need to open our image, go to File>Import Photos and Video, locate your picture and click Import. Next locate the modules at the top, currently it will be in…