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October 20, 2009

aremac

You need only need to scratch the surface of Twitter to find that there are a gazillion people spending considerable time planning, taking, editing, and uploading photos, for viewing by friends, family, and utter strangers. You need only look a little deeper and see that many of these photos are very, very good. With the rise of cheap excellent digital cameras, and easy-to-use editing software, the bar to entry has been blown away, and amateurs everywhere are taking advantage of it. As a result, even on the basis of statistics, the web is awash with excellent photos. 

There are some people that stand out, and you might have to be just lucky to come across them, but one that sticks out for me is aremac. His photos are literally saturated with colour (the saturation dial is turned to 11), but it works for him. Check out his most "favourited" shots. I just wish he put larger versions up so I could use them as desktop backgrounds, but perhaps he risks exploitation. I subscribe to his feed, and he uploads something most days. Recommended.

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September 20, 2009

Afternoon walk

A late afternoon walk around Jackson's Landing.

               
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August 30, 2009

6am III

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A repeat. It's worth looking at, if only to know what 6am looks like in Sydney in late May.

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March 16, 2009

Whoosh

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Trip to the amusement park.

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December 31, 2008

Photographic elements

Very amateur photographer that I am, at the recommendation from a photography book, I decided to look at some of my more recent photos and identify the dominant design element in each photo out of the list:

  1. Line
  2. Shape
  3. Form
  4. Texture
  5. Pattern
  6. Colour

Interestingly, out of the 50-odd photos that I classified, I could quickly see that the more under-represented ones were Form and Colour. Form is about capturing the three dimensions of the subject, such as depth or volume, through the use of light and shadow, side-lighting, depth of focus and so on.Colour is mostly about an emotional response to colour, either as variations in a single hue, or contrasts and interactions between colour of different hues.

Tram Shed

One of my 2009 resolutions then is to improve my photography skills by more consciously addressing one or more design elements in each shot, in particular the under-represented ones.  And asking myself before taking a shot what it is that I'm attempting to capture in the field of view, and making sure there is a focus to it, in terms of compositional variables, like the framing, orientation, focus, depth of field, exposure, camera location and so on. When you have a camera in your hand you see the world differently.

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