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Five Elements of Control: #5 Composition

September 18, 2009 3 Comments

You knew it had to come back to this, right?  I know, everyone is screaming by now “But Jason, you’ve talked about the Rule of Thirds until the cows literally came home!”  Truth be told though, most people think about compositional positioning with their subject matter.  While it’s true that subjects are ideally placed on ...

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Five Elements of Control: #4 Context

September 17, 2009 1 Comment

Have you ever seen something that looks so out of place that it catches your eye?  Well catch it with your lens too, because contextual positioning of subjects in interesting or unusual/unexpected areas creates visual interest.  This is what I refer to as controlling the context of your subject.  So many times I’ve heard people ...

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Five Elements of Control: #2 Color

September 15, 2009 2 Comments

Yesterday was all about light and the way that contrasts or changes in that light can have a pretty dramatic impact on your work when you present it to others.  Of equal importance to photography though is the element of color. If you don’t take color shades and variances into consideration, then you have lost ...

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Five Elements of Control: #1 Luminance

September 14, 2009 5 Comments

This week I am doing something special here on the blog – starting a week long series on the subject of Control.  We can control our photography in several different ways, and I’ve seen different outlets talk about each of these (and others) to a certain degree, but I’ve not seen many that address all ...

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Follow Up: Radio Station Photo Theft

Earlier today, I posted the article about a radio station stealing images from a competitor station.  After publishing the...

Radio Station Steals Photos

...the cost of hiring a lawyer and delay tactics that the station can make to draw out the process...

The Benefit of Company

...Socializing is a good thing - we are social creatures, and this is even more true with photographers. ...

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