I took this on a whim while visiting some truly amazing people at Edinburgh University this week. The building is called St John’s Land and something about the interplay of the building’s symmetry juxtaposed against the offset drainpipes appealed to me. As you know architecture is not my specialism, but variety is good for a...
Sarah-Jane and Paul from my last post had a baby boy last Sunday. Mum and little laddie doing well I hear. Can’t wait to catch up with them again!
I thought I would start looking at composition by choosing the most important and basic compositional rule:
Make sure that your photograph has a subject.
This may seem obvious, but in terms of having a well composed photograph it’s important that the viewer can work out what the subject of the picture is.
In the following picture I...
So you have followed the last few lessons and you feel confident that you can keep your subjects sharp and you can adjust the exposure using exposure compensation. If you only want to take slightly more control of your compact, then you’re there, and your pictures will be much better. Last week though, I said...
I use a Canon 40D. I am really pleased with it and if I never had another camera I could continue to make great images with it, but I am a photographer, and it’s not in our nature not to want a better camera, especially at a time like the present when every new generation...
