Tag: England

Grounded Part 1

Alongside filling the frame, I LOVE a good snail eye view.

This is where you place (carefully) your lens of the camera as close to the ground as possible.

It is absolutely great for street photography, which I discovered at the weekend.

Sometimes you need to experiment and see what happens in your images. You don’t necessarily need to have it all figured out, it’s all about having fun and learning from your images.

Mute the tones, keep the image and pathway central – experiment! It’s all about adaptation and learning.

Watch out for my next blog post “Grounded Part 2” for more street based snail eye photography!

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JT

Casting a Shadow

My favourite and most used editing app when it comes to photos, is Adobe’s Lightroom

You have to sign up to adobe but that’s about it! Most of the features are free, obviously you can pay to access the whole package, but I find you have more than enough features without having to pay.

On this image, I enhanced the shadows and contrast to add depth and definition to the image.

What do you think?

For this one, I added more black tones to the podiums so that the green grass in the distance stood out.

Light at the end of the tunnel!

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JT

Statue

It’s important to keep going.

If you have a dream that you wish to peruse, keep going. That’s the only advice I can give you.

There have been so many times I have failed in my photography. I’ve bought products that wouldn’t sell, I’ve paid for adverts in local magazines that haven’t received much attention and my sales haven’t been amazing.

But do I give up? Do I stop?

Absolutely not.

You see, that’s how you succeed.

Could you imagine if you gave up and the next day was your winning day?

I know it’s hard, but keep that head up.

Don’t be a statue and freeze and stop altogether.

Keep going.

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JT

Zoo Life

I love animals. I love flamingos the best, though.

As much as zoos aren’t the most PC and perfect environment for animals, I do enjoy the occasional visit.

I go to a zoo in Dudley, near Birmingham whenever I visit my friend down south. It’s a lovely little zoo with a wide variety of animals.

Initially, you have to get on a ski like chair lift to get in an extremely steep incline. It’s not always the highlight of the day, but for 3-5 minutes at dizzying heights, it’s manageable.

I met this cute little guy on a walkthrough. It was so exciting having the opportunity to be so up close and personal with these creatures!

Check out my other blog posts for my photography based adventures!

JT

Central Sensation

When taking photos, I LOVE it when objects are in the centre.

For me, it draws the eye to the centre piece of the image.

It’s so simple, yet highly effective.

When you look at a photo, your subconscious starts your eye to the top left of the image – as this is how you read.

So when taking photographs, I bear this in mind.

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JT

A Screw Loose!

Anything can be a photograph.

When I went to college, and began my training, my tutor told me that you can make anything and everything into a photo. And she wasn’t wrong.

I often find myself notice everything on my travels – I love being able to turn objects, like a light switch and pile of books, into “fill the frame” type images.

But these screws really caught my eye.

Fill the frame is one of my favourite photographic techniques I have learned and mastered over the years of being a photographer.

It’s such a simple technique – just move your camera closer to the object, focus and snap!

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JT

Life of the Rich and Famous

London is one of my favourite cities in England.

There’s something so compelling about the capital of England: the heritage and history, architecture and buildings, beautiful parks and scenery and of course, the fantastic entertainment!

My sister and I went to London for a mini break a few years ago. On one of the days, we decided to visit the most iconic place in London.

No, no. Not Buckingham palace.

Madame Tussaud’s.

We waited hours and hours to get into the wax work museum. And was it worth it..?

YES!

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JT