Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to open the fall season with the work of Bevan Davies. Bevan Davies: New York Typologies will feature vintage black and white photographs of lower Manhattan made in the mid-1970s. Davies utilized a large-format view camera to generate images of great depth an...
3. Create a Sunset Strategy Snapping shots at sunset will give your images an almost ethereal golden glow. During your travels, find what time the sun sets where you are and make sure you’re at the location you’d like to photograph about 15-20 minutes before it sets so you can set ...
That said, some candid photosaretaken with the subject’s awareness. During a wedding, for instance, guests often know that the camera is pointed in their direction, but they still act naturally, resulting in beautiful candid shots. The key here is theauthenticityof the photo; whether or not...
The light sensitivity shouldn’t be raised above 100, since there is always enough light in the open air, even in cloudy weather. On sunny days, I suggest shooting an hour after sunrise or an hour before sunset, during the so-called «golden hour». ...
I often shoot inAperture Priority modeduring Christmas events, and I’m constantly changing the aperture depending on my subject. For example, when taking shots of a Christmas decoration on the tree, I’ll select a large aperture (e.g., f/2.8) to throw the background out of focus andcre...
autumn is a season as underrated as it is inspiring, full of color, emotion and romance. A simultaneity that many poets have written about. In Hoffmann von Fallersleben, autumn comes with rich gifts and distributes them cheerfully. In Rilke, the last sweetness is chased into the heavy wine...
During Willem Diepraam’s youth there was little that pointed to his later career as a photographer. There was no artistic or intellectual milieu to stimulate his talents. In her own youth, his mother had toiled in the laundry run by her parents in the working-class Pijp neighbourhood in Am...
Here is an example of the hand test fromPhotography 101. You can see that Pye is using his hands to test where the shadows fall. Interpreting light starts by understanding its attributes: quality, color, direction, and luminosity. Of these factors, light direction distinguishes the overall theme...
(Click here to view the interactive picture in a new tab. When it opens, click and drag to look around.) This spherical picture was my entry forthe “Evolution” theme of the World Wide Panoramain 2024. One meaning of “evolution” is directed change — change that has direction or purp...
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon. Blog | About | Flickr | Twitter | Facebook | Google+ | LinkedIn | Email...