http://www.ermany.net/photography-silhouettes/ Personal web page of Erman the photographer. Main contents of this page are; Photography and Design Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:52:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.ermany.net/photography-silhouettes/#comment-643 Basic Composition Tips; Simplifying | Erman-y Photography Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:52:26 +0000 http://www.ermany.net/?p=108#comment-643 [...] Ask yourself “what is your subject” before taking the picture. Than think about if the objects in the foreground or background are really necessary for the picture that you want to take. If they are not, avoid them by changing position or angle or both. Simplifying or isolating your subject in other words, will improve the quality of your pictures you’ll see it after a couple of tries. You may often have to change your position and angle to do that. Taking picture from a higher ground can help you avoid unnecessary and confusing backgrounds. Also getting on your knees or lying to the ground helps you get rid of unwanted objects and let you use only sky as a background. Also you can use depth of field as a tool for getting rid of busy backgrounds. ( To learn more about Depth of Field read my related article.) Lower f values like f/3.5 etc. that make the aperture of the camera wider, decrease the range of depth of field and making everywhere flu or blur except the point or subject that focused on. So you can use depth of field to avoid busy backgrounds too. One last tip about simplifying, is taking silhouette pictures of your subject. (To learn more about silhouettes, read my related article.) [...] [...] Ask yourself “what is your subject” before taking the picture. Than think about if the objects in the foreground or background are really necessary for the picture that you want to take. If they are not, avoid them by changing position or angle or both. Simplifying or isolating your subject in other words, will improve the quality of your pictures you’ll see it after a couple of tries. You may often have to change your position and angle to do that. Taking picture from a higher ground can help you avoid unnecessary and confusing backgrounds. Also getting on your knees or lying to the ground helps you get rid of unwanted objects and let you use only sky as a background. Also you can use depth of field as a tool for getting rid of busy backgrounds. ( To learn more about Depth of Field read my related article.) Lower f values like f/3.5 etc. that make the aperture of the camera wider, decrease the range of depth of field and making everywhere flu or blur except the point or subject that focused on. So you can use depth of field to avoid busy backgrounds too. One last tip about simplifying, is taking silhouette pictures of your subject. (To learn more about silhouettes, read my related article.) [...]

]]> http://www.ermany.net/photography-silhouettes/#comment-452 Alanya Nights | Erman-y Photography Tue, 27 May 2008 14:51:02 +0000 http://www.ermany.net/?p=108#comment-452 [...] you are a beginner, try to relate my posts about night photography, silhouettes, long exposure etc. with the pictures in this post. Also try to understand how i apply the [...] [...] you are a beginner, try to relate my posts about night photography, silhouettes, long exposure etc. with the pictures in this post. Also try to understand how i apply the [...]

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