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| Take Better Photos Hints and tips by Philip Grosset 
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| with comments from Philip Grosset |
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| I was sent this photo by Michael Teed. It isn't immediately obvious where we are meant to look. Is the main point of interest meant to be the young man or the bridge? In any event, the white area at the bottom left distracts the attention. |
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| Move in closer, like this, and it becomes a pleasing picture of the young man, but with enough of the bridge in the background to establish where he is. This works pretty well, but it might have been even better.... |
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| ....if the subject could have been moved down a bit (the ghost image shows his original position) to the bottom of the picture, as shown here, so that his head was clear of the bridge, then the bridge would be seen towering over him rather than seeming to grow out of his head! |
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| "Hi, I've seen your website and your comments look constructive and useful - so I thought I'd allow you to let rip on my pictures! Thanks, jon (I hope these files aren't too big!)" (Jonathan Webb ) |
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| A highly effective photo. By panning the camera to accompany a subject moving across the scene, and using the telephoto end of the zoom, you can produce a really sharp picture of the moving object with the background dramatically blurred, as here - but it requires quite a lot of skill to get a result as well composed as this! |
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| This photo isn't quite so successful, because we are further away, so... | ||||||||||||||||
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| ... I've come in a bit closer. I have also tried reversing the picture (above right). Does it now look as though the rider is moving a bit faster? In theory, because of the way our eyes move when we "read" a picture, a figure moving left-to-right often seems to go faster than one moving right-to-left! It doesn't seem to make much difference here, but I think I rather prefer the version on the right! The jump would have been even more impressive, though, if we could have seen the ground a bit more clearly. Reply from Jonathan Webb: "Hi, thanks for your comments! I'm always interested to hear what people think about my pictures, after all, it's the only way I'm going to get better. There are a lot more photos on my website: http://www.esuburbs.com/members/jon/ mostly more mountain bike photos but there are also a few others. I think some of them are quite good (but then I would, wouldn't I??!?), though not as good as the ones on Singletrack photos: http://www.stphoto.com/ I might get that good one day.... thanks again,jon." |
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