Often when I go out shooting I experiment by tilting my camera. I find this to produce some interesting results to potential boring shots ! I also find by doing this people tend to not take you too serious (handy with street photography at times) and smile into the camera (bonus !). Camera: Canon Powershot Pro 1
Archive for December, 2008
Extreme Tilting.
Posted in Camera Techniques, Digital Photography, tagged photography, street on December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Odd Composition.
Posted in Camera Techniques, tagged composition, photography, street on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rule of thirds helps with composing well balanced and pleasing to the eye images. BUT rules rules rules ! Sometimes rules get in the way of creativity, I think. Why not break free from some rules and just experiment and let your creative intuition come alive ! Do an odd composition for an example. You [...]
Two or More Photos ? Try Composites !
Posted in Layers & Textures, tagged art, composite, photography on December 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Got a few dull photos ? Photos that just didn’t turn out right ? Too blurry, too dark, too light, too “it could have been better”… ? Well if so then try using a few of them to create a photo composite (two or more photo layers resulting in one image) and see what you come up with. Creating [...]
Don’t Edit, Sometimes.
Posted in Urban Creative, tagged photography, urban on December 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Developing film after a shoot is one of my favourites ! Seeing exposures come alive after a hard day of shooting is really rewarding ! But sometimes I do get a little lazy with the developing side of things… inconsistent temperatures, too much stop bath, over developing, not enough washing and so forth. And so was the case with this frame. I [...]
Filmstrip Frame. Sprockets are Cool !
Posted in Post Processing Techniques, Toy Cameras, tagged filmstrip, holga, photography, urban on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At times a photo looks ok but add a border and it seems to instantly bring it alive. Oh but what border ? The tried and tested faithful black border ? Yeah this works well and I do use this method at times. But sometimes the faithful “border black” does not really perform so great on [...]
Gold Chocolate Wrapper.
Posted in Layers & Textures, tagged art, photography, street on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Chocolate is nice and I do like to eat it often ! But what about them wrappers ? Chuck them out ? Yeah normally I do but on this one occasion I kept the gold foil wrapper. I liked the texture and thought I may use it for something one day. Although, it ended up sitting in [...]
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