A Retiree's Overview Only Guide To Photography
Sometimes, something as simple as taking images with your cell phone can be a very rewarding hobby. Get good enough with it and you might just double up your retirement check.
Take a look at this:
The first is a head on collision with all the wrong reasons why images taken by amateurs are just plan bad.
First, the subject is dead center. Photography does have its visual rules known as cropping so that the subject is two thirds vertical and two thirds horizontal.
Of course, I'm allowed to break the rules. Still this one comes close to the 1/3rd, 2/3rds rule It is also about a half stop overexposed.
Second, the blue tips of these soon to be flowers are blue tipped and, quite frankly, blend too much into the background.
Third, there's too much going on in the picture.
Let's take a look at another image that should never have been taken.
Interesting play on light. If you look at the very top of the above image, it looks as though the light is coming from between the two leaves. Further down, it is clear the light is highlighting the edge of this very sharp cactus leaf.
Its a cactus having a party.
If you could find gold based on the color of cactus leafs, I must have found the mother load.
Even dead cactus leaves make for some interesting images.
Decisively photo shopped.
It just seemed to me this was begging to be taken.
Light and the death of a withering leaf caught my attention.
Not sure what it was but the almost molten lava like dead cactus made an interesting subject.
Can you see the resting wood nymph in this image?
Problem is, there are also literally millions of people who think their images are just as good as yours.
Consider the image below:
Take a look at this:
The first is a head on collision with all the wrong reasons why images taken by amateurs are just plan bad.
First, the subject is dead center. Photography does have its visual rules known as cropping so that the subject is two thirds vertical and two thirds horizontal.
Of course, I'm allowed to break the rules. Still this one comes close to the 1/3rd, 2/3rds rule It is also about a half stop overexposed.
Second, the blue tips of these soon to be flowers are blue tipped and, quite frankly, blend too much into the background.
Third, there's too much going on in the picture.
Let's take a look at another image that should never have been taken.
The subject is leaning and is darker than the background. On top of that anything beyond the wall on the left side pulls your attention to it instead of the subject smack in the middle.
Here's a revised version.
Doesn't even look like the same shot, does it? Yet it is.
Sometimes, images defy conformity all together and just beg to be taken. Below are a few of mine as examples.
And there are others that you can relate to:
While I'm pretty sure the Vikings didn't have cacti to use as inspiration for their boats, I can see a design for one here.
Interesting play on light. If you look at the very top of the above image, it looks as though the light is coming from between the two leaves. Further down, it is clear the light is highlighting the edge of this very sharp cactus leaf.
Its a cactus having a party.
If you could find gold based on the color of cactus leafs, I must have found the mother load.
Even dead cactus leaves make for some interesting images.
Decisively photo shopped.
It just seemed to me this was begging to be taken.
Light and the death of a withering leaf caught my attention.
Not sure what it was but the almost molten lava like dead cactus made an interesting subject.
Can you see the resting wood nymph in this image?
Old wood with a rustic charm.
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