Photography News October 20, 2021
Quote: “Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.”
– Edward Weston
Articles:
Bokeh Background Using Water – 8m 15s
Shooting on Black instead of White – 10m 21s
How to shoot Dance with Motion Blur & Detail – 6m 4s
Who Do You Believe? – Thom Hogan
Comet Leonard – October/November/December
Thought for the day: A Different Way of Cropping
I recently found a new way, to me, of cropping a photo in PhotoShop. This was allows me more chances to review and recompose.
Setup
Duplicate layer (CMD-J)
Deselect the lower layer
Set the upper layer to allow Free Transform (CMD-T)
Action
Drag the image you want to crop to >>larger<< (I normally think I’m cropping down)
Consider and play with rotations (something I normally sometimes do)
Consider stretching the image (hold shift bar down when dragging the edge of the image). Maybe make the subject taller?
Exploring Further
Look into and play with the Edit > Transform commands. Some are useful to fix parallax problems with buildings but they can also be used to making shadows and more.
Artist of the Week/Portfolio: Zach Arias https://www.zackarias.com/
The content of this blog post done in collaboration with one of our members, Greg Edwards: http://gregoryedwards.slickpic.site
