Shoot on Rainy Days

Its interesting how often photographers I know will avoid going out to shoot in the rain, preferring to wait for nicer weather… There are 3 interesting things that can happen with rainy weather: 1) Natural Diffusion With rain comes clouds….

Henri Cartier-Bresson

See shapes

In yesterday’s post about the Rule of Thirds, we looked at the classic work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Bresson’s style is very rooted in a classical compositional tradition balanced by a sense of time, place and wonder which makes his work…

Divide by 3

Divide by 3

Instinctively as humans, its natural to think in symmetry when composing a photograph. The most obvious thing for us to do is to try and divide things evenly. The temptation is to put your subjects face in the middle of…