What is this rule of thirds thing anyway? Basically, it’s a rule of the thumb designed to help you compose powerful images. As with most rules in photography, it is important to learn it, understand it, and make it your friend, before you start breaking it. The biggest argument is that once you know what […]
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You may have spotted the lightbulb, cloud, electricity and woodshed symbols on your camera’s screen or menus. You may have also ignored them as being yet another degree of complexity that you don’t need to know about.
Alternatively, you may have seen people on the Internet earnestly discussing colour temperature and swearing by all sorts […]
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Regular followers of Photocritic know I don’t have a lot of time for the Holga, as illustrated in this post. The response to that post was ear-deafening: The blogosphere (ick I hate that word) went mental at me in the defence of the Holga.
The other day, Robin McAulay tried to be a little bit […]
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Abstract photography is nothing new, and people constantly come up with new — or re-invent old — versions of photography techniques. One of the ones that is going like wild-fire (excuse the pun) around the interwebs at the moment is the art of photographing coloured smoke.
The trend started with the highly talented Graham Jefferey, […]
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I know I keep going on about this, but there’s no denying that photography can be an insanely expensive hobby: Especially if you’re curious about why people start shelling out thousands and thousands of dollars/pounds/euros on glass with a little red L on it… Once you’ve shot a couple of hundred photos with professional equipment, […]
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