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| Category: | Landscape and Travel |
Less is more when it comes to photography - Ian Badley tells us why pre visualising the image before lifting the camera to your eye is a good idea.
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Ian runs Photographic Workshops around the UK and Europe including the New Forest, Dorset, Isle of Wight, Jersey, Italy, ‘One to One’ sessions together with PhotoTreks for beginners and improvers in the New Forest and surrounding areas. To find out more visit his website at www.IanBadley.com. Here's his tip:
My advice is to pre visualise the image before lifting the camera to your eye. Think about what you want to include. It may be that your picture will tell the story better, if you take a number of different images. In the example given above, this may mean perhaps a picture of a portion of the heath, its changing textures, the grasses growing through the heather; perhaps just the trees, a lone tree maybe, the late evening light catching the leaves of a big pine; the tumbling stream by itself burbling over a few large stones or the verdant green leaves around; the ponies in situ, taken close up as a portrait. Maybe this would portray the essence of the scene far better than trying to include everything in just the one shot. What you leave out of your image can be just as important as what you put in. Remember, less can be more!"
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| Photo by Ian Badley. |
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Ian,
Good advice, I call it "dry shooting" I've been practicing it for 40 years and it really helps my final out- put as well as what goes on in clearing my mind and soul.....One last suggestion, to process film or digital images as soon as they were created and stick to your vision during the post processing. This way you stay true, you don't want to get into the trap of " after thought " then its the proverbial problem of to many choices....and always keep it K.I.S.S.
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