Most people photograph the gardens at the Palace at Versailles the other way – looking from the palace into the garden. This shot has an unusual viewpoint – it goes the opposite way and this adds interest. Having a fountain in your face in the foreground adds to this. Shot with a wide angle lens, from a viewpoint a little lower than normal, the hugeness of the fountain is exaggerated, as is the smallness of the people along the paths on either side. This gives a sense of perspective and adds depth to the image. [Read more...]
You Are a Fountain of Talents
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Rise Above the Clouds of Doubt
December 29, 2010 By
I had parked the car and walked along the windy path. Nice up here, I thought, but not as spectacular as I had expected. Everyone says the top of Haleakala in Maui is really special. Then I rounded the corner. What I saw was this image.
WoW! There really is a God, and this is his/her home. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talk. I had to catch my breath! This was so absolutely divinely breathtaking. I had to just stand and look before I could even begin to compose a photo. How do you capture such incredible beauty? And even more importantly, this feeling I was experiencing? [Read more...]
A different point of view: 3 creative techniques
August 6, 2010 By
“Why don’t we all get low down and dirty?” suggested a friend. No, he didn’t mean what you think! He meant let’s stop photographing everything from an adult height and change perspective for a while. What does the world look like from a child’s point of view? Or a dog’s or a pidgeon’s? We so take for granted that our point of view is the only one. Not only with visual information, but too often with ideas and beliefs.
Changing perspective with a camera seems easy – you just move, and voila – the scene looks different. True, but it’s actually not easy. Just as in ife, we often get stuck on a certain way of looking at things and become fixated on a certain way of approaching things. [Read more...]
Are your thoughts all tangled up?
In creating this image, it was a conscious decision to have the seaweed start off the frame and flowing from the top right. Since we read from left to right, that is opposite to the way we normally would expect see the main visual component of the image placed. This creates drama and tension. [Read more...]