Place your subject to the right or left of centre. For portraits, the eyes should be above the centre line for a pleasant good composition.
Composition is all about the balance of the elements in your photograph. This also includes colors tones and textures. This is what separates a snapshot from a great shot. If you want to achieve a good composition, you need to plan it out and see where each element is going to be placed before you take the shot.
You might have seen some articles here on Digital Photography School about using the histogramwhen editing pictures in Lightroom and Photoshop, but it can also be a very handy tool when you are out shooting images as well. Most cameras have the ability to show you the histogram when you review your photos on the rear LCD screen, and some even allow you to see a real-time histogram in Live View. While this might... more
Detail recovered from a RAW file, before and after.
There is often a debate among photographers about shooting in RAW. Try it out – next time you are with a group of photographers, ask them who shoots in RAW.Better still, ask them why they don’t shoot in... more
Joel Nicholas, a Vancouver based photographer, has been up to something really cool. He’s been working on a photo series called Blueprints for Observation, where he transformed an old downtown self storage building into four different camera obscuras: one each on a north, east, south, and west facing wall. The storage facility was destined to [...]
Not that using timelapse photography techniques to capture the abundant natural beauty found here on earth isn’t awesome, but this use of the technique is pretty incredible in it’s own right.When two filmmakers, Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet, decided to make a to scale version of our solar system–something that had never been accuratelypictured prior [...]
In the quick video clip below, professor Lorna Roth (of Concordia University in Montreal), covers the who, what, why, where, and when film and camera technology began making strides in an effort to more accurately capture and portray the wide variety of skin tones that make up the human race. In the early days of [...]
What do you get when you have two fun loving and creative wedding photographers that just so happen to be expecting a baby together? Here’s what: a really, really clever pregnancy announcement. Take, for example, the husband-wife photography team Judy & Gavin Holt , who have just announced to the world they’re expecting a baby [...]
When the Canon EOS 70D was announced in July 2013 it was the first Canon crop camera in a while that didnt come with an 18mp sensor. Not that the extra two megapixels made a huge difference, but it was a good indicator of the companys direction. Back in the day the 20.2mp sensor was [...]
