Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Photo Challenge Friday: Week 22: Framing
Happy Friday, It’s Challenge Time. Week 22’s challenge is another of my current back to basics series and is called, Framing. This is all about using natural frames. You can create a frame like this using your hands, a fence, trees or a window. You may even think of other ways of creating a natural…
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When Is Not Okay To Take A Photograph?
I’ve heard this question so many times and I think its mostly to do with your own moral code. There are a few things you shouldn’t take photographs of. Here are some of them: People in private property without permission is illegal so don’t do this unless you have that permission. If you are in…
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Photo Challenge Friday: Week 21: Do Your Lines
Happy Friday Readers, It’s time to share this week’s challenge. Week 21’s challenge is another of my current back to basics series and is called, Do Your Lines. This is about using lines to lead the viewer into the image. These can be horizontal, vertical, radial and diagonal. These Leading Lines are everywhere you look…
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Photo Challenge Friday: Week 20: Rule Of Thirds
It’s Friday gotta Photo Challenge On Friday. Week 20’s challenge is Rule Of Thirds. I thought I’d Start the challenges in this book from the beggining which is the fundamentals. So The Rule Of Thirds is basic composition. Think of your camera or phone like a grid and divide it into thirds, both horizontally and…
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Photo Challenge Friday: Week 19: Get Closer
It’s Photo Challenge Friday. Week 19’s challenge is to Get Closer. This challenge is about taking close up pictures of ordinary things and seeing if you can make them look stange and unfamiliar. Using objects and subjects you can find in your own house and garden and experimenting with Black and White. Here are the…
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Q And A With Street Photographer: Alf Myers Photography
Welcome to the second instalment of monthly Photographer Q and A. My second photographer is Street Photographer: Alf Myers Photography. How did you get into photography? That’s a rather simple one to answer – it was holidays. Many, many, moons ago I went on holiday to the Greek island of Corfu. It was in the…
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Facing My Fears: Part 1: Dogs
I feel as a photographer you should not just photograph subjects you like or things you enjoy. You should also be photographing things you fear. I was terrified of dogs since I was about 7 years old when I went to worden park and I was chased by one until I climbed up a tree…
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Photo Challenge Friday: Week 18: Blur The Boundaries
Happy Friday readers. Week 18’s challenge is Blur The Boundaries. This challenge is about getting super close to your subject such as flowers so they partially obscurre the lens and create blurry blobs. Play with your focus and see what happens in a familiar location. Here are the images I took for this Challenge: For…
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Competition Prep
Every season at Preston Photographic Society we have themed competitions. So, in the summer I take my special Lucy and the Lens notebook with the seven competitions written down so I can think about what I want to take and whether I can take a couple on holiday. Sometimes this is easy because the themes…
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