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Exploring with a Camera: Balancing Shapes
Welcome to the March installment of Exploring with a Camera! This month I am going to talk about balance in photographs, specifically balancing shapes. Not too long ago I posted this image of a green...
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Exploring with a Camera: Dynamic Diagonals
It’s time to go exploring! In this month’s episode of Exploring with a Camera, we’re going to look at the use of diagonal lines in our photographs. I’m calling it “Dynamic Diagonals” because diagonal...
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Exploring with a Camera: Visual Weight
Welcome to May’s Exploring with a Camera! This month we are going to explore the concept of Visual Weight in our photographs. When we studied Balancing Shapes a couple of months ago, I had to touch on...
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Exploring with a Camera: Linear Perspective (2nd edition)
I love linear perspective. I just love it. Perhaps it’s because of my engineering brain, the way that lines converge in the distance just fascinates me. It’s so orderly and predictable! Perhaps its...
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Exploring with a Camera: Signs
It’s time for July’s Exploring with a Camera – Yay! This month we are going to explore Signs. Not signs as in symbols or messages from the universe, but signs as in those things printed on placards,...
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Exploring with a Camera: Repetition
Welcome to August’s Exploring with a Camera! This month I’m playing around with Repetition. I’m defining repetition as using repeated elements throughout the frame to tie a composition together. You’ll...
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Exploring with a Camera: Allowing Space
Welcome to September’s Exploring to a Camera! Today is one of the rare times when Photo-Heart Connection and Exploring with a Camera overlap, due to my crazy September schedule. You can link in to both...
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Exploring with a Camera: Process of Elimination (2nd Edition)
Welcome to October’s Exploring with a Camera! This month I am sharing a “second edition” post, repeating the topic Process of Elimination that I first wrote a little over a year ago. I had already...
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Exploring with a Camera: Chiaroscuro
Greetings! Welcome to November’s Exploring with a Camera. This month I am going back to Italy, literally and figuratively, as we study chiaroscuro, or light/dark contrast. I found myself creating of...
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Exploring with a Camera: The Lights of Night
Welcome to December’s Exploring with a Camera! This month we’re going to be exploring the Lights of Night. It’s the perfect time of year to get out and play around with some night photography, since...
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Exploring with a Camera: Artistic Blur, Part 1
Welcome to the first Exploring with a Camera of the new year! Over the last few months, I’ve been very attracted to more impressionistic photographs. I’ve been enjoying them both as an end product that...
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Exploring with a Camera: Artistic Blur, Part 2
Hey, it’s Exploring with a Camera time! This month we are continuing our discussion of Artistic Blur, talking about adding blurry effects in post-processing. My little break from routine, ditching my...
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