Photo: Hannelore und Rolf Becker
In this week's video, Ibarionex talks about using shadow to draw the viewer’s eye to the most important element(s) in the frame. It’s not about simply producing a high-contrast shot, but rather using the presence of shadow to control the viewer’s experience of the photograph by directing the eye to the highlights and midtones.
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photo: Ibarionex
In this video, Ibarionex discusses how he made a portrait during a recent trip to the Dominican Republic. He explains what initially drew his attention to the scene and how he slowly built the composition and included the subject in the frame to pull off a beautiful and interesting portrait.
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photo: Evi Herlyna
In this week's video, Ibarionex talks about photographing the common scene of people on their smart phones. Though many photographers lament people’s obsessions with looking at these small screens at all hours of the day, such moments can provide great photographs if you know what to look for.
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photo: Eric Gitonga
In this video, we talk about how to edit a body of images on a singular subject into a photo story or photo essay. Using image submitted to The Candid Frame Flickr group, Eric Gitonga provides us to the tell the story of a man who repair car distributors. Using images which include environmental portrait and close-ups, he provides us the raw material for an edit which find a home in a magazine spread or an online web gallery.
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