Tech
Here you’ll find technical information about my photography, composition tips, editing tricks, behind the scenes of an outdoor photo session and more.
1.COMPOSITION TECHNIQUES
There are many dozens of composition techniques you can find in photography websites, here tough I show those which are more important to me and thus I’m constantly looking for when planning my photography.
1.1 Dual subject
My most employed composition technique for wide angle lens. Foreground and background each one with their own significant subject. This way you fill the frame and generate depth. Example images bellow. 3D model made in Sketchup Pro.
Image T1. Dual subject.
Image T2. Dual subject. Example images.
1.2 Reflections
Most of the times the horizon line is located at the middle of the frame. Try to make the composition in order to obtain whole subjects reflected (wide angle lens will be helpful). Example images bellow. 3D model made in Sketchup Pro.
Image T3. Reflections.
Image T4. Reflections. Example images.
1.3 Symmetry
Similar with “reflections” but on the vertical axis. I discovered that this technique is specially useful when employing a Fisheye lens, as well as with a wide angle lens. Example images bellow. 3D model made in Sketchup Pro.
Image T5. Symmetry.
Image T6. Symmetry. Example images.
1.4 Geometric trace
In some photography websites are called “leading lines”, or “diagonals”, but they are actually planes (2D elements, laminar forms mostly) irrupting into the frame. Could be a road, a long wall, a pattern, an array of cables, or also light trails. Example images bellow. 3D model made in Sketchup Pro.
Image T7. Geometric Trace.
Image T8. Geometric Trace. Example images.
2. On the Field
Here I show some behind the scenes images of an outdoor photo session, where I’m used to take long exposures during the blue hour, using a tripod and a wired shutter release. Sometimes I also employ a ND filter, which reduces the intensity of light entering the camera sensor and allows, for example, to take long exposures photos during daytime; and/or a GND filter, which I find useful for sunset photos or when one half of the frame (usually the upper half) is much brighter than the other, and a compensation is needed. For landscape and architecture long exposure photography, most of the times a small aperture (f number) is recommended, this way the depth of field becomes larger, and subjects located at different distances from the camera can all be properly focused.
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Taoyuan City Green Pond Park - 桃園市青塘園
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Hsinchu Touqian River - 新竹頭前溪
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Tokyo Station - 東京駅
