Advanced Photo Review of the Basics

Review of Composition

Link to article on composition

Beyond the Basics

The purpose of this part of the course is not to teach you all the technical aspects of photography. There is just too much to learn in such a short time. Rather I would like to focus on the artistic components of photography and get you to start thinking and seeing the world differently. However, for reference, I have included some short links which should help you understand some of the basics of shooting in manual mode which we will go over briefly.


manual mode for beginners
iso settings
getting off auto mode


Light Photography: This is using the camera in manual mode with a tripod and changing the settings to keep the shutter open for a longer period of time thereby capturing more light. This is sometimes called light painting.

LINK: light painting examples

Light Photo How to video









Close Up Photography

The idea is to focus on your object and blur the background.

Conceptual photography: 

As a methodology conceptual photography is a type of photography that is staged to represent an idea.

One of my favourite Canadian Photographers 

Benjamin Von Wong

Underwater Photography


How to create an overlay

Instructions
1. Find an interesting yet simple FREE background on google: try trees, mountain, ocean, animals etc
2. Right click copy image to Photoshop, file new, create, edit paste
    3. Bring in your own photo, file open in Photoshop
    4. Select one of the images to go over top of the other one, edit cut or copy, 
    click on the other photo, edit paste
    5. Then go to opacity and lighting an play around, also can use the eraser tool to clean 
    up the photo VOILA... an artistic masterpiece!