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24/09/17

Top 5 – A Day in the Life of

Here is a whole array of different ways to understand the term– A Day in the Life of:1. Duncan Raban:  Tina TurnerDuncan Raban accidentally got this job taking images of Tina Turner for four days. Tina Turner’s manager saw something different in Raban’s approach to photography when he witnesses Raban bringing a toy parrot to an awards ceremony with Madonna and others of that caliber and charmed them into getting fun images. Raban took this fun approach with Tina Turner arriving and sta...

17/09/17

Tips to organize your photographs in Lightroom

There is NO need for Multiple catalogues as previously thought.It was argued that a photographer should make a new catalogue or a multiple catalogues every 20,000 images otherwise your Lightroom would slow down. Tests have been done and this is not the case.You only need One catalogue.If you have years of unsorted images waiting to be sorted. Now is the time to start. You don’t need to do it all at once though- that is just too daunting but you can create a folder in your folder list and dr...

10/09/17

How to read and improve your Images

HOW TO READ AND IMPROVE YOUR IMAGESAn image is always about something, or so believes American art critic Terry Barrett. To arrive at that something, Barrett came up with a formula. We think this formula can help you as a photographer and as a critic:SUBJECT MATTER + FORM + MEDIUM + CONTEXT = CONTENTLet’s break down the formula, so as to find the best way to arrive at the ‘content’. First and foremost, it’s about looking through the clues left by the photographer:Subject Matter:...

27/08/17

Top 5 – Double exposures

Double Exposure is a technique when two or more exposures are superimposed to create a single image. This can create a ghost like effect. There are different ways to technically do this:Using a manual winding back. Taking an image and winding back so you photograph over that taken image.Some DSLR’s allow you to do it in the camera.Post production in in Adobe Photoshop orUsing an app on your phone.Here are some exciting examples of Photographers who have used double exposures.1. Duane...

19/08/17

Multiple or stroboscopic flash exposure

So what is stroboscopic flash?Stroboscopic flash is when a chosen number of flashes are fired continuously in one single LONG exposure. This fun technique allows you to have multiple bursts of light freezing a moving subject multiple times as it moves through the frame.You might recognise it by wondering how some of those images with dancers or basketball players bouncing the ball and are frozen multiple times are created. The results are very similar to that of combining multiple exposures....