The Power Of Both Perspectives And Perspective In Photography

N.B   The date for this post is set in the future as blogger puts the most recent post to the top of the page and I want this post to remain at the top so I've had to jiggle the date to circumvent this problem. 

My other blog Out and About documents some of the locations I've visited since commencing photography mid 2011. A work in retrospect.

I believe that photography, like life, is subjective. It is our life perspective which impacts upon our decisions, our relationships, and our actions. This perspective has been moulded from our life experience, and to a great extent the perspective has become ingrained, either knowingly or unknowingly. This life perspective affects our interpretations of both images and words. This life perspective impacts on the photographic perspectives we choose when composing shots. Or is it all really just about creativity and intuition ?

Are these labels fair, or is it simply a dog versus cat perspective?

Angels Among Us

Serendipitously discovered an uplifting yet bittersweet video link this morning. For anyone who doubts the power of an image, this video would remove any shards of cynicism. Using a piece of string and a camera, Ainslie Henderson has created a most powerful antidote to grieving and doubt.

Moving On from ainslie henderson on Vimeo.

 Life experiences bring with them a degree of disenchantment at different stages in our lives but we don't have to look too far to sense that we are never truly alone. The Divine is ever present, reflected in the actions and words of empathetic people who sense an ache in a fellow traveller on this earth, whether it be human or animal, and endeavour to apply an emotional salve to ease the pain. Angels do not only dwell in Heaven, they exist on earth.

Its All In The Image

Image resizing

Distortions and chromatic aberration  Whilst I purchased my fisheye lens to actually achieve distortion I appreciate that when architectural integrity is at risk of being compromised sometimes its better practice to rectify this quality.



Digital Photo Enlargement Calculator

JPEG versus Tiff

All about RAW


Sharpness

Guide to sharpening


Enhancing Contrast

Image averaging to reduce noise

Converting to black and white

Tag Galaxy

One of the coolest Flickr applications I've ever seen. You can quickly locate image using a search by tag option and they are presented according to categories and then displayed on an interactive sphere. Cool, fun and quick