![]() On the R6, I have a love-hate relationship with eye/ face tracking, and while there is a time/ place for it, these tips will be more practical! This article was also published here and shared with permission.I have a different episode on the ins and outs of AF (Auto Focus) settings, but this video is more of a practical approach of what I am actually doing to manipulate my camera WHILE I am shooting. For any questions or inquiries you might have, you can contact him via his website or visit his Facebook page. You can see his work on his website, Flickr, 500px, Model Mayhem, Ello and Instagram. He has been practicing photography for over 15 years, creating award-winning landscapes (Essence of Bellingham contest, Pacific Crest Trail Association Photo of the Year) as well as commercial work for individuals and organizations such as the Downtown Bellingham Partnership, Make.Shift Art Space, Subdued Stringband Jamboree, Bayou on Bay and others. Patrick Beggan Photographer from Bellingham, Washington. ![]() See and create graphic and emotional content. To be an artist, be both an animal and a sentient human being. We only stay looking long enough to feel if the graphic content makes us. We see raw contrast and graphic content first. When you can get your emotional content to point back at your focal point as well, then you have a truly powerful image. Point at something with the visual language that can’t be seen, only felt. Then understand that you can point at something beyond the visual. Create compelling graphic content with a strong focal point and a supporting visual hierarchy. Advertisementsīeyond this recipe for strong focal points, think about how great art is made - emotion. Find a rhythm of alternating tonal values that strengthens the natural path a viewer’s eye will follow in your image. Manage attention and interest by understanding concepts like chiaroscuro, executed intentionally. You want to cultivate alternating areas of lighter and darker zones that reinforce and frame each other, ascending towards the focal point. See the whole image–make it small or blurry if need be to obscure detail - and analyze the scene that surrounds your focal point. Highest contrast should be your focal point, brightest or darkest tones depending on your image, with lowest contrast and darker tones making up the non-focal areas of your image. Using curves or levels adjustment layers masked into appropriate locations (or adjustment brushes in Lightroom) manipulate the brightness and contrast of the focal point and supporting areas of the scene to create a visual hierarchy that creates depth. The last step, and to really make your image shine, is to carefully polish what you’ve created in camera using image processing software. ![]() ![]() It can be done, but it will save you a lot of time in software to convert the three dimensional world to your two dimensional image properly now, when shooting. In my own photography I think of this as “harvesting geometry.” You can adjust things like brightness, color and sharpness easily in processing software but the hard lines and actual structure of a scene–the geometry–is difficult to adjust. For effective punctuation of your visual sentence, you need an object or entity that creates interest and is comprised of at least one characteristic from this list.Ĭape Dissapointment, Washington Compositional Explanation There are a few things that your eye will shoot to first because of the way your brain processes visual information: points of high contrast, high sharpness, faces, human and animal forms, forward color tones (usually warm tones, like yellow) and recognizable objects that are large in frame (which reads as close). You need to know not only what makes the best single focal point, but also how to compose the sentence that precedes it.įirst, consider what makes the best focal point the best punctuation. A strong focal point is better thought of as the punctuation at the end of a carefully composed sentence. “Create a focal point,” it’s said, “it should be the first and last place the eye goes in your image.” That’s true, of course, but like most important things it’s easier said than done. Focal point is a term that photographers and photography blogs throw around continually.
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