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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If you are reading this, you have probably heard people moaning about lack of contrast in one of your pictures. I am sorry about that, but — really — it is one of the most annoying things in the world. The medium of photography allows you to enhance the way you see the world, so […]
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There’s a lot to be said for how the accessibility of affordable digital cameras has improved the level of photography overall, and I’m strongly in favour of the idea that digital photography is a good thing.
The downside of digital photography is that we are seeing a whole generation of people who never saw a […]
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Geekery and science meets photography: Cross-polarization is a fantastic little technique that exploits a quirk in the way polarizers work.
Think of light as wooden ice-cream sticks that are flying towards a set of bars. The bars will only let the sticks that happen to be aligned with the bars through, and absorbs all the other […]
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If you’ve ever taken a photo of a group of people, you’re probably used to the chant of ‘oh no, I blinked’, usually from that obnoxious little blonde that you can’t stand the sight of. But did you know that there is actually some science behind taking photos of people, and whether they blink or […]
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