Finding geometric shapes to photograph is a great exercise for beginners. It helps train your eye to look for something specific.
A quadrangle (also known commonly as a square, of course) is easily found in many places. Look around you, how many do you see in your room?
Here are some images of squares – either cropped into the square format, or subjects the represent the shape – as interpreted by a few different photographers:
One would think that with a surname like “Click”, a personmightbe more sympathetic toward photographers, especially when that person is also Assistant Professor of Mass Media at the University of Missouri. Some of you will remember the story from November last year,of Dr. MelissaClick’stussle with journalistsattempting to interview and photograph students during a proteston the [...]
I took this photo as part of a lighting class in Costa Rica. The theme was people who represent the spirit of the farm where the class was held.It was a colonial building hidden in the country side of Costa Rica. While we were fortunate to have a great model, I used a few simple [...]
New York based American artist, Tauba Auerbachhas created a three volume set of hardback books, as 8x8x8 inch cubes,in a project entitled the “RGB Colorspace Atlas“. Each volumecontains 3632 pages, and represents a look through the colour scheme of each of the three different colour channels; Red, Green and Blue. While it must’ve been a [...]
I write this annual articleto help photographers with one of the toughest parts of their job, pricing their work. Inthe 2016 version, Im going to add some new elements such as a little advise for photography buyers (found after the state of the industry). Another sectionIm most excited about is the question and answer portion [...]
Smartphone photography might seem straightforward. But the truth of the matter is there are plenty of people out there who could benefit from learning at least the basics involved in capturing quality images with a smartphone. Here to break down those basics is MacRumors in a four minute video aptly titled, How to take Better [...]
If youre anything like me (and the rest of the internet) its safe to say you have hundreds, if not thousands of photos of your four-legged child, Fido. Its not at all uncommon to take photos of your pet, either for the sake of sharing them with the world or archiving them so you can [...]
Yesterday, Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo announced it has developed a SmartSensor, a smartphone sensor Oppo claims contains the worlds smallest optical image stabilization technology. Teaming up with smartphone camera innovators MEMS Drive, Oppo has created a 3-axis sensor-based image stabilization system. Much like the systems found in Olympus and Sony mirrorless cameras, the SmartSensor compensates [...]
According to Israeli company,Corephotonics, while mobile sensor resolution increases, the effective resolution and image quality of cameras in mobile devicesremains relatively low. Althoughthe technology is improving with each new generation of smartphones that gets released, as well as other oddities, things like motion blur, lack of optical zoom, low light performance and focus issues still [...]
If you’ve been following the blog, you know that we are quite cheap when it comes to promoting deals. We just don’t. But this bundle from 5DaysDeal is just too good to pass on. The shot of it is that it packs over $1,900 worth of products into a $87 price. And this is good [...]
