David Gardner Photography
PART 2 ELEMENTS OF DESIGN PROJECT – LINES
PROJECT – LINES EXERCISE 1. HORIZONTAL, VERTICAL, DIAGONAL AND CURVED LINES While I was looking for subjects to illustrate lines in images, I was very taken by stacks of straw bales, large round bales and lines of cut stalks in local harvest fields. It was a windy day of cloud and sunshine and the light was constantly changing […]Read Post ›
PART 2 – ELEMENTS OF DESIGN PROJECT – POINTS
PART 2 ELEMENTS OF DESIGN THE HORSE AND RIDER provide a point in this image. Positioning them towards the left edge of the frame provides a sense of tension as they have already left the larger space to the right and will soon be leaving the frame to the left. I also took a shot with […]Read Post ›
5 QUESTIONS TO ASK TO BECOME A BETTER PHOTOGRAPHER
I have found the article posted below from the Canon DSLR Photographer’s Guide on the Canon Photo Guide website to be a very useful touchstone when I am wondering where my photography is going or what I am wanting from a particular photoshoot. —– o0o —– 5 questions you should ask yourself to […]Read Post ›
Photography with Love and Dignity
Originally posted on THE THING WITH FEATHERS:
What the poor need most is not pity but love. They need to feel respect for their human dignity, which is neither less nor different from the dignity of any other human being. (Mother Teresa) Khadisara (age 13 in this image) is NOT just a girl living in…
ASSIGNMENT 1
ASSIGNMENT ONE – CONTRASTS “Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.” – Roy Adzak, 1927–1987, British, photographer, sculptor, self portrait From the Art of Quotation website http://artofquotation.wordpress.com/2014/07/19/good-art-is-not-what-it-looks-like-but-what-it/ —– oOo —– This first Assignment required me to initially look through my archive photographs and identify pairs which portray […]Read Post ›
SOME THOUGHTS ON LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHS
SOME THOUGHTS ON READING ‘LANDSCAPE IN PHOTOGRAPHY’ ANSEL ADAMS – MOON AND MOUNT MCKINLEY (from http://www.playle.com/listing.php?i=KDL65801) Landscape photography is a branch of photography that I enjoy practising. On reading the chapters ‘Photography and the Nineteenth Century’ and ‘Landscape in Photography’ in Graham Clarke’s book ‘The Photograph‘ (Oxford University Press, 1997) I was struck by the changing […]Read Post ›
THE FRAME – CROPPING
EXERCISE – CROPPING For this exercise I have taken 4 of my archive photographs and cropped them with my software cropping tool to change the frame and the appearance of the image. I have posted both the original photograph and then the cropped image with a description as to why I chose the cropped frame that I […]Read Post ›
FRAME SHAPES AND SIZES
VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL FRAMES The natural inclination for many photographers is to take all their photographs in horizontal (landscape) format unless the shape of the subject clearly dictates that a vertical (portrait) format is more appropriate. As is shown in this exercise, virtually any scene can be shot in either format to create attractive images […]Read Post ›
RECENT RESOURCE ACQUISITIONS
Books that I have acquired and am currently reading and referring to include : – The Photograph by Graham Clarke – a standard book for the Art of Photography course. Published by Oxford University Press for their Oxford History of Art series. ISBN 978-0-19-284200-8 Developing Vision & Style – A Landscape Photography Masterclass by Joe […]Read Post ›
DAVID GARDNER PHOTOGRAPHY 