The importance of having the right lens in comparison to having the right camera body is often misunderstood. While both play a big role, having the right lens can either make or break the look you’re trying to achieve in your photography.
Street Photography
As photographers and videographers we are always looking for a new way to present our work that creates differentiation and tells the story in a unique way. In this article I’m going to go in depth at converting a colour photograph to black and white.
What Are We Trying to Achieve? The job of any good photograph is to tell a story. Sometimes the subject of our story is in motion and we want the photograph to convey that. Sometimes we want to impart the sense of motion to a static object. Sometimes we want to draw attention to motion. There are many techniques to depicting motion and those are the tips that we will cover in this article. Showing Movement in a Moving Subject Against a Static Background The most common case for this […]
I’m starting my series with my favourite focal length. Yes, I know, one should not have favourites, but if I could have only one lens it would be a 35mm. There are lots of reasons for me, so let me share some with you and if there is resonance, you might consider a 35mm prime as one of your go-to lenses.
This month we’re celebrating street photography at Henry’s. Street photography traditionally involved taking candid photos of people in public spaces.
We all have at least an inkling of what street photography is, but I think it can be generally described as candid photography of everyday life.
Soteeoh – real name Adeyemi Adegbesan – captures vibrant, restless, dramatic images of his city. This esthetic has earned him a following on Instagram (@soteeoh has more than 60,000 followers), and major brands like Adidas, Lululemon and Chevrolet tap him to shoot their ad campaigns. For Soteeoh, Instagram is more than a social platform – it’s the reason he committed to photography as a career. “I’d dabbled in it before, but in 2012 I started shooting consistently, because of the ease and convenience of [the platform],” says the selftaught photographer. […]
Ninety percent of the battle in photography is finding inspiration. The other ten percent is spent capturing your subject matter in such a way that it helps your audience see your subject as you want them to.
When I was starting out, and early in my apprentice days, I gained an appreciation for the look and feel of short, fast telephoto lenses.