RF-Photography

Continuing on with the Photo Basics series, I’m going to move into some concepts on composition. Since there is so much that can be said about the topic, it’ll be broken down into a series of articles on its own.  What I’ll do, over the next few articles, is go over some of the basic guidelines for composition.  Note I said “guidelines” and not “rules” (although one of the most well known is called “Rule” of Thirds).  I say guideline because none of these should be considered hard and fast, must-do-one-in-every-shot-or-else, break-them-at-your-peril kinds of things.  These guidelines have been developed over centuries of art history and they’re used for a simple reason – the work.  In general, making use of these compositional aids creates a more aesthetically pleasing image.  But there are times when the guidelines can be ignored to very good effect.  We’ll take a look at some of those instances later in the series. Photo Basics - Composition I, Intro, con't >

ArtFolio.ca is an online gallery exhibiting the work of Canadian artists. I’m pleased to announce that I’ve been accepted to have a portfolio on the gallery and doubly pleased to say that I’m the first photographer who’s been accepted to ArtFolio.

The Pine Ridge Arts Council is opening a new gallery in Pickering. The gallery will open on November 11 and be open through the end of March 2010.

The SilverStone Gallery will feature artists from Durham Region and will showcase a wide variety of artistic forms from painting and photography through sculpture and jewelery and fabric art.

Twenty-four artists have been selected to display for the first two months. The artist roster will then be changed for the last two months.

I will be one of the artists in the gallery for the first two months.

The opening ceremony/reception will be on Sunday, November 14 at 3:00 p.m.

Gallery hours:
Thursday/Friday – 2:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday/Sunday – 2:00 to 6:00 p.m.

There’s a discussion going on in my HDR Timelapse group over at Vimeo between another member and I about workflow for HDR timelapse video creation. For many it’s likely the nth degree of esoterica but it got me thinking.

It seems as time goes on the pursuit of perfection in our artistic endeavours becomes increasingly fervent.  We analyse and tweak pixels to within an inch of their lives.  We work to create perfect video output from absolutely imperfect input.  Music is recorded and re-recorded and mixed and remixed till it’s so perfect it hurts.  Why?  Has it always been this way?  Is perfection a good thing?  Once we get it perfect, what else is there? Perfection, con't >