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The rule of thirds

An important aspect to consider in the implementation phase is the so-called compositional rule of thirds. This rule requires that the image is divided into three equal parts and then compose the image result of following his logic. How fare.Immaginate to draw two vertical lines equidistant from the lateral margins and two equally spaced horizontal lines from top and bottom margins of the frame, thus forming a kind of grid that divides the image into three vertical columns of equal length and three equal horizontal stripes. Now, exploring the scene, framing, we must ensure that the main subject of the photograph is placed in the first third of the margin above or below, or to the right or left side of the margin. The important thing is that it appears positioned to coincide with one of the leaders of the central rectangle is created by four imaginary lines. In the case of landscapes, will be appropriate to re-enter the horizon in the third less, if you want to emphasize the sky or in the top if we want to leave more space for what is at the bottom: the ground or mare.Un impartial advice to the landscape: in the presence of a sky completely clear of clouds, shift your attention to the ground or sea. Although it looks nice blue sky, keep in mind that the smooth surfaces devoid of interesting details, photographically speaking never give good results, are quite "boring" to view.

The golden rule

The Golden Rule gained some prominence during the Renaissance, when it was used often by some great masters of painting. In fact, it was discovered and used in ancient Greece. The Golden Rule states that the most important part of an image should be placed near the bottom right corner of the frame, so that one quarter of the image is "protection" to the top and another quarter are " extensions "to the left. But why in the lower right? Basically because, in theory, we "read" images in the same way we read a text written from left to right, top to bottom. Since our "reading" ends in the lower right, then this is precisely the area where we focus our attention for a longer period of time, or where we spent more time before turning the page. In the following image we can see that the golden rule has been complied with in full, by greatly enhancing the visual effect as well as then respect the rule of thirds.

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Paul Strand

Thanks Andrew and George for making me appreciate the beautiful images of Paul Strand during the course of reporting this evening! I have already ordered the book on IBS "One Country"!

(Andrea and Giorgia PepeFotografia are the talented photographers from which I am by the course of reporting and thank you very much for the wonderful creative ideas that are giving me!)

Paul Strand can be considered the father of art photography, a true craftsman of the evolution of this medium since the early novecento.Fotografo years of social, acute experimenter, fine designer, theorist and filmmaker went through the last century with a careful look, directed and penetrante.Strand analyze reality, trying to grasp its authenticity and its innermost essence. His was a rigorous search of objectivity. The intention was to faithfully represent life, showing every possible nuance. Strand then documented the existence of mankind and the world trying to stop the landscapes in all their poetic depth. This conviction led him aesthetic style in his early career to fight against the pictorial (even if they are found on several occasions glaring contradictions) for the sake of straight photography (photography direct). Vate of black and white, Strand relied lines , volumes and spaces and do not in any way manipulating the images. His shots are where you found a constant search for purity and simplicity at the expense of trends estetizzanti.La photo Strand runs through many of the themes: landscapes, abstract art, portraits, reportage with a social, architectural structures, nature. His gaze towards the world is preferably front. Despite the initial battle against the picturesqueness, his works show a typical static nature of painting (see the pictures), but the most interesting aspect of his art is to be found in the commitment "political" for the documentation of the spirit of the people , as did at the completion of the photo book is a country with Cesare Zavattini . This volume is one of the most significant projects ever made about the art of photography, a form of expression used on this occasion along with the words to tell Zavattini also on the socio-anthropological microcosm: Italy country after the war. This is an experiment that has made a remarkable achievement from a cultural standpoint and gave us a book of fundamental importance, recently reprinted by Alinari.I his portraits, mainly laid, are based on a stylistic very clear. Those immortalized in fact almost always look in the car. The user is then brought the image to read the whole of humanity of the characters included going deep and not be tied to the work surface. Paul Strand's career was marked by periods quite definable. Attracted initially by painting abstract forms and trends in the twenties is mainly devoted to the creation of portraits and an interesting stylization of natural forms. The following period is instead based on the representation of places and landscapes and later his work is essentially driven by the territorio.Strand still was able to compete with the aesthetic beauty of the female body, through which return a complex image of naked woman between erotic and sensual exaltation of forms and pictorial representation of the body.

This a roundup of his photographs.

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Nan Goldin

The American photographer Nan Goldin is the winner of the most important prize in the world of photography, the Hasselblad Award. Sponsored by the Hasselblad Foundation, established in Sweden in 1979 to support research and teaching in the fields of photography and the natural sciences, is given annually since 1980 to an internationally renowned photographer whose outstanding artistic activity had a significant impact successive.Scorrendo generations on the history of the award, which provides for the allocation of 500,000 Swedish crowns, a gold medal and a diploma, you can find the big names in photography of the last century: Henri Cartier-Bresson and Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Cindy Sherman, to Boris Mikhailov, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Malick Sidibé. Nan Goldin, says the reasons for that choice, "he documented his life and that of his friends for more than thirty years, focusing on European and American urban scene of the 70s, 80s and 90s, marked so dramatically from 'AIDS. His work, based entirely sull'istantanea, makes her life a true work of art, intimate, great formal beauty, with an intense use of color. Nan Goldin uses the photograph as memory and as protezionedall'oblio, responding the needs of our times. "On 10 November, the award was inaugurated a retrospective on the art of Nan Goldin Exhibition Center all'Hasselblad within the Göteborg Art Museum.

These are some of his photographs .

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Charles Ebbets

This post is dedicated to the work of Charles Ebbets in 1932 that documented the working conditions of workers on "Skyscrapers in New York.
certainly among the most beautiful photographs of all time!
This is the
link to view images.
(from the link you can download a PowerPoint presentation Top photo)

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Construct a variable temperature pyrograph

I decided to make a tutorial on how to build a variable temperature for pyrography fixed temperature

Variable temperature for a fixed temperature pyrograph economic


required:
· Scatolare / insert external switches to 2 units;
· Module socket;
· drive / potentiometer for incandescent lamps;
· electric wire + plug;
· Table wooden

Mounting components

Mount the socket module (black in photo) and drive / potentiometer (yellow in photo) at the top of the carton / box.
potentiometer I used has these characteristics:

Connect a wire directly to the module socket (eg photos, blue wire).

Connect the other wire at the entrance of the potentiometer (eg photos, brown wire) and then another wire of the same color (brown) to the output from the potentiometer
(NB comply with what is described in the leaflet potentiometer for the position of the wire is input and the output).
wire output from the potentiometer is connected in the module's input jack.

After connecting the wires, screw the bottom of the carton / box with a piece of wood, of a size such that it can accommodate both the box and the pyrography, then screw the top of the box to the bottom.

At this point the monster drive temperature is ready, we have to connect the pyrography ...
Now we just have to try the pot by turning the wheel (see Note instructions on the operation of the potentiometer, may vary from one model to another).

NB I do not assume any responsibility for the use of this tutorial, get more help from experts in the field.

tutorial copyrighted, you can use images and text only naming the source:

Nunziante Langellotti
http://www.webalice.it/langellottonun ziante /

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HDR - High Definition Range

I posted some pictures on the website sample photos in HDR.

Click here to see

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What is the 'HDR (High Dynamic Range)

's HDR stands for High Dynamic Range, is a technique used in computer graphics and photography to allow the lighting calculations can be done in a larger space (just a high range) and can represent values \u200b\u200bof very high or very low lighting.

HDR techniques are based on the physical nature of light. To calculations using the same units of photometry, where, for example, the sun is assigned a brightness value millions of times greater than that of the personal computer monitor.

The HDR makes it possible to capture a scene and then having total control on the final image, for example, you can display the picture again, correcting or improving the outcome.

For photographers open up new possibilities, just look at a few small photos to see the great potential of HDR.
The management of this technique invented by Paul Debevec and Greg Ward from encoded file has leaned to the fore with the advent of Photshop CS2, which allowed to generate and manage files in HDR format of a series of multiple shots exposed in different ways.

then the emergence of programs such as the HDR Photmatix made closer to all the fashion has spread especially among amateurs. Achieve professional results, however, is not entirely straightforward because the HDR is amazing results but leaves behind few traces. Finally, the advent of the new generation of computer processing times more human than with 32-bit files to 16 and stretch out of proportion.

So if you want photos with unimaginable detail and tonal separation and lighting amazing we have to use HDR.

In this tutorial: explore the possibility that this photographic technique offers us understand what tools we need to achieve acceptable results we will see how to apply the technique to individual files.

For a discussion of this topic, I refer you to the site of Vittore Buzzi from which I took over the party.

Below is an example made Topaz Lab

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Great shots on the street by following these 20 tips

give the full intervention appeared on Creatively translated by digital photography school


1 - Travel light - Do not lug around too much material (and "too" is all that you do not consider essential) a good fifty lets you move easily.

2 - circuit Exit - Do not limit yourself to shots as a tourist, looking for "real life".

3 - Steal time - Try to imagine what will happen, and anticipates the best time.

4 - Color - Thinking of street photography comes to mind a beautiful black, but not you forget the color, often a peak color can make a difference.

5 - Wallpaper - What's behind the subject? The background serves to contextualize the scene, so make.

6 - Leverage Diagonal - never fixed on the horizon, trying to take on the diagonal, you'll have more coverage and more dynamic.

7 - Opposites attract - Choose something that breaks the rules, defying the norm.

8 - The Performance - Street performers, writers and protesters, can be a nice person.

9 - Across the road - Other places where people congregate can be interesting zoos, parks, fairs, exhibitions, sporting events, can offer good ideas.

10 - New Perspective - Find the best angle for your shots. Do not be afraid to kneel or stand on the walls, remember to move.

11 - Practice makes better - Do not think about the mistakes we commit, but makes use of every moment you spend on the road. Time and experience will make your work even better.

12 - Be brave - Sometimes the best images are obtained "by hand". Find the courage to get closer to the subject, presented talks, and while shooting your pictures.

13 - There is also the only - often seek to reduce the sharp contrast between lit and shaded areas. In street photography but this can be a strength, not to underestimate.

14 - ready to shoot - holding the camera, and you're always ready to shoot. The world is moving, and every moment may be right. Snap, snap, snap, the technique is not everything.

15 - Back at - There is only the spontaneity or the sudden. If you hit a place do not hesitate to make the scene you want, or wait until it happens close to what you expect.

16 - Freezes movement - The road is a place of movement. 1 / 125 is the basis for still images, but by no means is prohibited blur controlled experiment, with slower times you can follow pedestrians, bicycles and cars.

17 - Disguise - Try to be discreet, not to attract ettenzione, be quick and silent.

18 - Fisheye-A minor focal length will give you great depth of field and very "edge". Leverage your wide angle.

19 - Be nice - some people are suspicious if they see a nearby photographer. Try to be polite and smiling, trying to put people at ease, and you're ready to avoid any conflict.

20 - Travel light - I repeat, why is this the essence of street photography. Less material, less equipment, less weight, less bulk. You will be more free to move, moving, and less intrusive to a walking study.

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David Lauriola

This post is dedicated to David Lauriola, photographer in Turin. Beautiful
his photo reportage:

www.davidelauriola.it

Bravo David!

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Roman New Year

returned from a wonderful New Year's past Rome took advantage of the day of "rest" to update the website adding some photos taken in the capital.

There are two galleries: one in the "Travel " with some photos that show as I've seen these days in Rome and the other in the "Report " some shots during a wild New Year's Eve at the Coliseum ( 200 000 people ...) with a concert by Gianna Nannini.