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What a view!

20 Friday Mar 2015

Posted by Karen in courses, Practice

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art, Canada, landscape, photo101, photoaday, Reflections

“There is no certainty; there is only adventure.”

– Roberto Assagioli

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Days end

The prompt for Photo 101 today was “snap a picture of a landscape. Focus on the gestalt — the entire setting as a whole — rather than a specific subject or focal point within the scene. The setting itself is the star.”

I thought for todays prompt I would just let the photos do the talking, please let me know what you thin? These were all taken on my last holiday to Canada (August 2014).

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Climbing to the top

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Reflections

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Bridge over still waters

Dreaming

20 Friday Mar 2015

Posted by Karen in Learning, P52, Playing with Light, Practice

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art, backlighting, blogging101, Light, Photography, portraits

“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

Well I am already on week 6 of my Light project and in this my second week of backlighting I have decided to look at portraits. One thing you must be careful of in general is lens flare. When you are shooting into the light, as you do with backlighting, you may get flare. This occurs when strong light rays go directly into your lens, hit the front element, scatter inside it and cause excessive lens refraction. The quality of the glass and the lens width contribute to the degree of flare. You can use your lens hood to help prevent such flare. Sometimes though flare can be a great advantage. It can dress up a photo, like the one above, which adds warmth and atmosphere.

Todays task for Blogging 101 is “develop a regular feature for your blog.” Which is quite apt considering Friday is the day I have been posting my year long project posts on “light sources”. It mentions creating a menu item or widget to highlight it, well I had this in hand already, so will be making this page live too now.

Until next week……….

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