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Limit Yourself: Lighting

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Another day with the props out, this time with the intention of experimenting with lighting.
You don’t need expensive lighting to achieve dramatic effects, particularly if you are doing small tabletop work. I was using just a single halogen desk lamp, angled to different positions for the following shots. It just shows what you can do [...]

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Limit Yourself: Depth Of Field

Monday, January 11th, 2010

I’ve been exploring another pair of colours today, orange and green, for my Dichromatic series. Like yesterday, I took some simple elements and once set up on the tabletop, played about with various compositions. This time, I was also experimenting with depth of field and how it affected the images.
[Crayons all sharp - and again, [...]

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Limit Yourself: Picture Elements

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

In these Limit Yourself posts, I’m going to take one element of picture making and suggest you pare it down to the minimum and see what happens.
We are all given thousands of choices every day, and even with photography there are so many ways to take a particular scene or image that sometimes it’s hard [...]

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