Month: September 2014

 

I picked a withered leaf on the ground as my last image. This describes the time of Fall. In the beginning of autumn the leaves are still green, at the end they are on the ground.

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Let us do last weeks exercise again with a new theme. We are living in the season of fall in the northern hemisphere so let us photograph Fall and use the Golden Mean again as our basic structure.

Again, the first image is the establishing shot. I picked leaves that are in the beginning of turning red and yellow.

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I filled the last spot with an image of an acrobat. I addition I changed the canvas setting and added text to the composition. Below is the final image.

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I added another action shot to my composition. Enjoy and keep on photographing!

 

 

After creating the largest (first) and smallest (last) image it is now time to fill the “in between” space. I decided on “action” shots. A Renaissance Faire is a lot of fun and this fun has to come through in the overall composition.

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I think it is a good idea to start with the introductory image that sets the tone and the ending image. Since the ending image is quite small one has to carefully select the content. I picked the two “peasants” as a contrast to the rich and powerful queen.

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This is a template of a “Golden Mean.” Photograph an event and create a composition using this template.

I photographed the Renaissance Faire at Casa de Fruta in Central California. The first image should represent the event and I picked  the image where the Queen is carried through the street.

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There are photographers who enter a place, city etc. and photograph whatever catches their eyes and there are photographers who have a vision in their mind of what they want to photograph and than they start looking for it. The purpose of this exercise is to move you and me from the first to a new level. Start imaging what you want to photograph and then go for it. It will definitely make you a better photographer.

Enjoy the address number and the year number in this image! Would you have seen it?

This is a great image to study. It is very busy. There are bricks, wood and metal. There is a brown yellow and green color contrast and pure black and white in the image. The house number is placed where in a website the logo of a company is placed.

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This is a house number on the front door. The two digits are relatively small and still it is the place where the human eyes go first.

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