Today’s Tip – Thinking About Thirds
The Rule of Thirds almost always comes up in composition workshops. It is a “rule” that a pleasant balance comes when organizing a composition into two unequal shapes (1/3 and 2/3), creating some...
View ArticleVisualizing a Composition
One of the basic techniques that I use in my workshops when teaching composition is about Space and Shape, chapter 5 of Think Like A Camera When considering how to frame a photograph, when studying...
View ArticlePhotographing Rose Bouquets
Photographing Rose Bouquets is excerpted from the forthcoming PhotoBotanic Guide to Photographing Roses. Discounts on the preorder page. I do love photographing roses in the garden. As a gardener I...
View ArticleTripod Point of View
I always use a tripod for my professional work. Not only does a good tripod allow a rock steady camera for sharp photos and good depth of field, it forces me to think carefully about composition. The...
View ArticleCarrizo Plain Panoramas
I suspect that anyone who loves wildflowers heard about the super bloom in California this year. After five years of drought and dry winters, most of California received above average rainfall – and...
View ArticlePanoramas on the Prairie
There is something about prairies that makes them particularly hard to photograph. By definition they are vast and flat. There is the land; there is the sky; and there is a horizon line to separate...
View ArticleBranch Patterns
For photographers working with fall foliage, the underlying structure of tree trunks and branches can provide subtle ways to hold photographs together. Here in California late November is the peak of...
View ArticleBlocking Shapes in a Photograph
I often think of a photo composition as a combination of shapes linked together, like jigsaw puzzle pieces within the rectangle of the camera view finder. I call this blocking, borrowing a term from...
View ArticleThe O’Byrne Tapestry Garden
No garden has ever thrilled me more than the O’Byrne garden. The careful plant selection of textures and foliage combinations become tapestries, at first glance haphazard but intricately composed. It...
View ArticleCropping a Magnolia Branch
Careful cropping a photograph yields strong composition The post Cropping a Magnolia Branch appeared first on Photobotanic.
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