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Again in this derelict yard, and with a guard dog that wouldn't shut up, I found a bit of hard colour to create this composition.
There is a different light in the fall. There is a hankering for respite, a need to leave the summer crowds and wrap up in colors and in homes.
Good evening friends!
I sometimes get asked the questions: "What preset do you use?", "What action did you use?", "What lens did you use?" or "What camera do you use?"
And just recently, I was asked one of these questions: "What lens did you use?" for my most recent upload titled "Alone".
These are all perfectly good questions, so this post isn't at all about mocking anyone. However, I reckon that the grand question one should be asking is another. Why? Because the answer to how the majority of my photos are created isn't tied to one specific camera, lens or preset. In fact I've never really liked using presets or photoshop actions to get things done. And the focal length, including brand of lens plays very little role in the final image.
The biggest concern should be how to compose the shot properly using the elements that can be found at the scene. In my opinion; leading lines and the placement of the subject in relation to the rest of the scene is the most important aspects of a photo. This is called composition. Also, you'll of course need great light and a fitting expression or posture of the subject.
So in order to explain composition better, or at least how I composed my most recent photo, one would first have to know what a golden spiral is.
Well, Fibonacci first discovered that this so called "golden spiral" appears in several places throughout nature, from DNA molecules to flower petals, from hurricanes to the Milky Way. More importantly, the Fibonacci spiral is pleasing to the human eye.
Read more here: www.livescience.com/37704-phi-golden-ratio.html
Long story short, our brain has to process everything our eyes see. The quicker it can process something, the more pleasant it is. Any image with the golden ratio is processed faster by the brain, so it sends a signal that such an image is aesthetically pleasant.
This, as a photographer, is something you'll learn to see without having to draw out the spiral on top of your image as an overlay and obviously not on your camera's viewfinder or LCD, although that sounds useful. Proper composition just needs practice, as with everything else.
Now, what better way is there for an individual that on a regular basis tells stories through pictures than to explain this with a picture of a picture (pun intended) that recently received great feedback on social media :)
As always, please feel free to share!
Compositionally Challenged week 41 is Texture.
This rotting stump offers visual interest as well as a winter home for insect larva.
Love the composition on this fashion/beauty image, even if I say so myself 😎
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Rossella Vanon Workshops
Photography: @howard.sandford
Model: @carina_lammers
Makeup: @megkoriat
Hair: @miho_emo_
Styling: Scarlett
Production: @rossellavanon
Assistance: @agatakoconphotography and @flofield
Location: @huddlestudios
Some 250 kilometers northeast of Kunming, the capital of China's Yunnan Province, lies Dongchuan, a rural area with the world's most imposing red earth. Spread over vast terraced fields, Dongchuan’s unusual brownish-red color comes from its rich deposit of iron and copper. Exposed to the warm and humid climate of Yunnan, the iron in the soil undergoes oxidization to form iron oxide which is naturally red in color. These oxides, deposited through many years, gradually developed into the extraordinary reddish brown soil seen here today. Every year during spring, when this area is ploughed for agriculture, a large number of visitors and photographers come to see squares of freshly upturned red earth waiting to be sown along with areas of budding green plants. The fiery red soil juxtaposed with emerald green barley, and golden yellow buckwheat, against a blue sky produces one of the richest color palate rarely seen in nature.
One of a series of compositions taken for possible inclusion in Week 36 - 'Portrait Orientation' - with the Compositionally Challenged Group.
The composition was composed exclusively for the challenge. Background tidied up with a blur tool, Frame added in Ribbet.
Composition with two small vases.
Vintage Angel Vase & Flower Vase.
Majolica Style Garlands Grapes
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Music Mosaic 7 Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy • Ravenna • 2021