Tag: goals

Grounded Part 2

In my city, we have an arcade of shops called Central Arcade. In it, we have shoe shops, music shops, city enquiries and a Costa. It is such a beautiful place. So much architecture and details.

Look at the ceiling!

Such utter beauty!

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JT

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

Living The Dream

I love taking photographs.

There is just something so magical about being amongst nature with a camera.

I feel confident. I feel empowered. But mostly, I feel so happy.

A week ago I had the privilege of being in nature with my camera.

Paradise.

It’s quite simple in gaining this rainbow effect in the image. It happens most when I use my phone to take pictures. It’s all about playing with the light and allowing the sunshine to bounce and curve off the lens.

For the above effect, I turned my phone upside down so that the lens was on the ground. This way, it skims the bark and adds a density to the image.

I love playing around with photography. You’re never too advanced to keep experimenting.

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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 Letter to My Younger Self

Hi JT,

I know life can be difficult, but there’s one thing I know for sure – you’ve totally got this and can do anything.

You see, it’s all in your mind.

Whether you think you can or you can’t – you are right.

Have the upmost and ultimate faith in yourself. Why not? Everyone else does!

You are going to come across a hidden but brilliant talent that is going to take you all over the world and get you earning loads of money. This is photography. You’re talented enough to know what you are doing and you are going to make it big time.

You just need to have faith in yourself.

Also, the most important thing in life is to start and to keep going. If you work a bit every day, no matter how big or small, you will eventually get to your goal.

Don’t give up.

Ever.

JT