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When you photograph people the format of your image has a huge impact. The perception of the subject, composition, and dynamic change. This is a good example how important the format of your image matters.

Enjoy and happy photographing!

I just finished a large portrait assignment. They family looked at my proofs which I printed in a 4X6 format. They ordered a lot of 8X10, which is a 4X5 format. I struggled in a few images to get the subject in the new format. In the above sample I cut the had of completely in the square format. The subject changed with the format!

Enjoy and happy cropping! 

I photographed the church in Bodie, CA. Bodie is a ghost-town and offers millions of opportunities for photography.

Again, study the impact of using a different format for my subject. In this series I also changed the size of the church. In the third image I enlarged the church slightly.

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Pick any image and crop it into a 4X4, 4X5 and 4X6 format. My DSLR naturally has a 4X6 format while many Point and Shoot cameras use a 4X5 format. Study the impact the image format has on the subject of your composition.

I started out with a simple flower shot. The feeling of the subject is totally different in each format I used.

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This afternoon I went to the store and bought this toy car. The assignment for this week did not specify that I had to photograph only “real” cars. I actually surprised myself with the idea photographing a toy car.

Enjoy and keep on having ideas and be creative with your photography! 

I had to discover my car. I did not realize how many images I could get out of it. For this image I drove the car underneath a tree.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

I photographed this old truck in Bodie, CA. There were two important steps necessary to create this image. First I had to use a fill-in flash. Second I created three images out of the camera raw file. I overexposed (2 steps), underexposed (2steps) and normal exposed the image and saved the three images to use Photomatix to create a high dynamic range (HDR) image.

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My partner David and I talked yesterday about photographing cars and David mentioned that old cars have characters. There is definitely something to it. This is an old truck that I photographed in May which I re-edited.

Enjoy and keep on photographing! 

If you want to grow as a photographer you have to start shooting subjects that you either don’t like or not familiar with. I usually don’t photograph cars. They are just means of transportation to me (To be truthful, my last car purchase changed that a little bit). There I decided to do this exercise and photograph cars and I challenge you to do the same for a week.

I drove my car under a big tree to get some shade and to get some of the reflection of the tree in my image. I started looking for interesting curves and came up with this image.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!

It was a lot of fun observing and photographing this Jellyfish. Sometimes I think I should have used the video mode on my camera but even as a still photo this image reveals a lot of movement.

Enjoy and happy Friday!