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Learning to See, Part II
The Hues and Use of Colour Colour is to photography what verbs are to writing. –Daryl Benson From the day we are born we start to see the world in colour. Just like taxes and death there is no...
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Learning to See, Part III
Read earlier posts in this series at “Learning to See – For Beginners” and “Learning to See Part 2“. The Hues and Use of Colour, Part II Colour is a means of expressing light. – Henri Matisse In the...
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Learning to See, Part IV
The Hues and Use of Colour, Part III Seek the strongest colour possible…the content is of no importance. –Henri Matisse Upon review of our last entry we learned that the colour, tone or shade of a...
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Rewinding the Clocks back 15 Years Should we wind our clocks back about 15 years to a time before the phenomenal popularity of home based computers and the internet, there was a general widespread...
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Learning to See, Part V
The colour of the object illuminated partakes of the colour of that which illuminates it. - Leonardo da Vinci In our past columns (see links below) we have discussed such topics as how one colour can...
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Learning to See, Part VI
No Contrast – No Problem The most beautiful composition can be dashed by improper use of color and contrast. –CJ Rider As we learned in our last entry, harsh light can work well with bold and dramatic...
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Learning to See, Part VII
Whereas photography is about vision, composition is about aesthetics. In our previous readings in this series we learned how colour, contrast and tonal range have a dramatic effect on the overall...
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Learning to See, Part VIII
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk. –Edward Weston To some photographers composition is an innate...
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Learning to See, Part IX
You don’t take a photograph, you make it. – Ansel Adams In our last entry we learned that placing the subject at one of the four primary points of impact within the scene would greatly enhance the...
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Learning to See, Part X
The limitations in your photography are in yourself. –Ernst Haas Diagonal lines, as we learned in our entry, are the subliminal connectors that keep the viewers eye within and moving around the...
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So You Want to be a Stock Photographer, Part I
The photographer has spent a fair amount of time creating this image both in shooting the elements and model, and compositing in post production. But as a stock image – what does it say? How will the...
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Learning to See, Final
Make Photographs for Yourself, Critics are Critics for a Reason Over the past ten installments from the Learning to See series (linked to below), I have hoped to lead the novice photographer through...
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Canadian Travelogue – Introduction
PREFACE: In 2000, as a millennium project, my good friend and noted landscape photographer Daryl Benson, and I joined forces and produced a book called “A Guide to Photographing the Canadian...
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Canadian Travelogue – Newfoundland – Cape Spear
Cape Spear is the most easterly point of land in North America, so you may have the distinction of photographing sunrise here before anyone else on the continent. The Cape Spear shoreline is one of...
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Canadian Travelogue – Newfoundland – Cape St. Mary’s
Cape St. Mary’s Ecological Reserve is about a one hour drive south on Highway 100 from the Marine Atlantic ferry terminus of Argentia. The drive to the reserve itself is fascinating and provides many...
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Canadian Travelogue – Newfoundland – Spillars Cove
Spillars Cove lies at the tip of Cape Bonavista, with Bonavista Bay behind you and Trinity Bay ahead as you face east awaiting sunrise. For most of my many visits there the weather has been...
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Canadian Travelogue -Newfoundland- Gros Morne National Park
Gros Morne National Park is to Atlantic Canada what Banff is to Alberta: a treasure trove of photographic opportunities. One major difference between the two National Parks is that Gros Morne receives...
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Is that a Workshop, Tour or Seminar [Part I]
There is a modern day aphorism: Those that can – do. Those that can’t – teach. I believe, however, the later part of the phrase should be amended to read “Those who can’t – shouldn’t.” A majority of...
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Canadian Travelogue – Nova Scotia – Peggy’s Cove
No location in Canada’s Ocean Playground is more quintessentially Nova Scotian than Peggy’s Cove. It’s all there: a lighthouse, pounding surf on large granite outcroppings and a tranquil working...
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Is that a Workshop, Tour or Seminar [Part II]
In our previous post on this topic we learned that the photo workshop is primarily a teaching venue, with a very structured curriculum leading to measureable outcomes. The keynote teacher and/or...
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