When I travel around I often experience extremely personal situations that I will never forget. They become personal because they are emotional to me. They are emotional because I was directly involved and experiencing something new for the first time.
The same goes for photography. Getting close to your subject is sometimes the best way to pack emotional punch into your travel photography, even if it’s something inanimate, because details help us relate to the setting in which the photograph was taken. It brings us into the situation and we learn something more about the subject. Click here to keep reading…
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Last week I talked about motion-blur photography and how it can bring your photographs to life by showing movement. Today we’ll be looking at how you can use the manual aperture function on your camera to selectively focus on a single point in your picture, leaving the rest blurry. To illustrate this concept, here is an example from Chinatown in Bangkok, Thailand.
From this example you notice that the shrimp are sharp and the surrounding area is blurry. This is because I used a large aperture diameter to create shallow depth of field, thus letting me focus on a specific area leaving things in front and behind blurry. The application of this technique is usually reserved for close-ups, but you can play around and find other applications. Click here to keep reading…
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One thing I hope to regularly talk about on in my All Stars is travel photography, something I love doing. I find it an exhilarating experience to be somewhere for the first time and look at everything from a fresh perspective. But one thing I’ve always had trouble with in my early days of photography was motion-blur. I had this weird idea that it was necessarily a bad thing. This is simply not the case.
A major aspect of the travel experience is the observation of a foreign dynamic environment. Motion-blur can help you capture this dynamic feel. You’re no longer capturing a single frame but rather a movement in time. Click here to keep reading…
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