Your Personal Photographic Style
Understanding Digital Photography:You're Just A Few Techniques
From Developing Your
Photographic Style
There are thousands of combinations of tools and effects in PhotoShop.Keep it simple. Learn a few digital techniques really well and build on that success.
One method of achieving a style is to be consistant: use one effect applied over several images. This will achieve another goal: mastery of the technique.Mastering a technique: Concentrate on one effect at time instead of trying to learn everything at once. You'll be more focused and achieve greater images because you'll gain confidence in expressing your visual ideas with new software.
Today's digital photo subject is Buster. I'm applying a Photoshop effect to his image. Effects may be referred to as filters.
I liked this composition of paw, nose and whiskers within the soft enedclose-up.
I made a lot of trials to get this effect in Adobe PhotoShop. Now I know exactly how to get this style again. It's important to know because, for one reason it saves time. Another is continuity.
Examples of 3 photos that would not have continuity:
Lets say I have three 24" x 30" or larger images of Buster on the wall. The first image is the one above with the white/light blue background, the second has a plaid background and the third has coffee cup and a bagel (and Buster -- probably eating the bagel.)
When you look across the three photos rather than being drawn in--your eyes just jump around trying to find the continuity, the order, the message or feel.
***How to achieve continuity:
Similar style and color combined with various Buster poses will tell a story. They'll draw the viewer in to discover the details. Photographs are more likely to sell as a group of three if they are tied together in this type of series. Using similar Photoshop effects on all the photographs will tie the images together visually.
If you have received my Ten Tips you'll remember I wrote about visiting art galleries? The next time you go observe how similar styles and colors of art are hung together.
Gallery owners know what's current, what sells and how to display it. Art's a tough business -they wouldn't be in business if they weren't good. Learn from the experts.
Back to Buster. You won't have to take all the time I did in experimenting to get this effect. People are busy and on the go.
I'll just show you what I did in my newsletter. You'll have the directions to save, to repeat and to make your own notations.
But first, you'll need subscribe to my Ten- free-Tips over at the right hand column under "Subscribe." They'll get you out taking photos and getting you to think digitally.
Then you'll get my free newsletter on how I created the 'Petals' image in my last post in August just below. There's lots of pictures in it to take you through step-by-step. Next, you'll receive my Buster newsletter on creating an animal series of three images. You can use a photo of a bird, a zoo animal; go for a walk and ask a stranger if you can shoot a photo of their dog. Or can scan a picture from a book or some old photos.
Hey, if all else fails try a close up of a friend's big fuzzy beard!
Until the next time.
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posted by Ruth Bilowus Butler @ 6:54 AM
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