If you have been taking photos for some time, you will have heard of the various rules that are out there about how to take a good pic. Things like leading lines, rule of thirds etc… In many cases, these rules are a good foundation and the have a lot of value to help you…
Recently I was at the Walter Sisuslu Botanical Gardens in Little Falls (Johannesburg, South Africa.) It was a cool summers morning and had rained the night before, so there were lots of droplets around. The light was good because there was cloud cover (soft diffusion, works well ) I managed to snap off a few…
Well, you can go into detail about the “rule of thirds” (more about this another time) you can talk about the lighting, the colour, the tone, the expression and guess what. All of these would be correct. What makes a photo great is the combination of all of the above techniques and more. A great…
I have had this conversation with a few people…can a photo be seen as art? Well, I guess that depends on your definition of art. If art is something that take a certain amount of talent to produce, is creative in nature, is visually appealing, stirs an emotion or memory, then perhaps some photos can be…
