Each week seems to give me a deeper insight into photography. Things that I wouldn't normally think about, such as simplicity, the rule of thirds, lines, balance, framing and mergers have all added to how I look at new photographic opportunities. Looking at/for geographic shapes or S curve of the objects to give line and definition to my photos instead of the basic point and shoot or simple things as adjusting your own angle to take a good photograph to give more options of an uncluttered background are things to keep in mind as I take future photos. What I find as an Ah-ha light blub going off was the rule of thirds. Viewing photos and placement sure does add more dimension and wasn't something I had every heard about.
One tip that I found on a website, www.digital-photography-school.com, is a tip for how to take a good photo even though you have a distracting background is to use Aperture to blur the background to have the central focus of the object to stand out more! "The quickest way to see the impact of this stragety is to switch your camera into aperture priority mode and to take a number of shots at different apertures. Start with an aperture of f/20 and work your way down - one stop at a time. Once you get down to under f/4 you'll start seeing the background in the shots getting blurrier and blurrier."
Hi paula sometime this week I am going to have to take a look at that website and teach myself more on aperature it really seems like a fascinating concept that I would like to learn more about.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of experimenting with aperture and definitely need to do lots more of that to really get a grasp on it. Thanks for the info!
ReplyDeleteAperture is great for blurring background. You can get simplicity also by just changing your point of view so your background is less cluttered. My fave of all your framing shots is the snowmobile one with the tree branch framing (or is that the roof, it's hard to see.
ReplyDeletePaula, I liked learning about the rule of thirds as well, I felt really silly finally finding out what the graph on my camera screen is supposed to be used for. I have always used it to center things, it was nice to find out it can be used for other things.
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