This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast dis­cusses the rule of thirds in pho­tog­ra­phy. This rule‚which is more of a guide­line sug­gests that you divide the image that you see through your viewfinder into equal thirds so that it resem­bles a tic-tac toe board. Depend­ing on what the objects of inter­est are, you can place them along the divid­ing lines or at one of the 4 OFF-CENTER points as illus­trated in the square dia­gram below. Doing this gen­er­ally improves your pho­to­graphic composition.

In these exam­ple images below you can prob­a­bly see that the off cen­ter shots are more inter­est­ing or appeal­ing. The cen­tered shot of the gar­den statue should appear less appeal­ing than the non cen­tered shot.

You can download‚this pho­tog­ra­phy podcast‚directly‚by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link‚or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the embed­ded player.

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This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast con­tin­ues on the theme of pho­tog­ra­phy fil­ters that we talked about in pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast # 18. This time we talk about the sim­u­lated dig­i­tal pho­tog­ra­phy fil­ters that are built into dig­i­tal cameras.

‚ Reg­u­lar color	‚ Black and white (monochrome)‚setting
‚ Red filter	‚ Sepia (mono­chrome) setting
‚ Blue (mono­chrome) setting	‚

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The color wheel in photography

3 fil­ters — UV (clear), Polar­izer (grey­ish) and Flu­o­res­cent (magenta) Image cour­tesy of Rich Niewiroski

This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast fea­tures a quick primer on using fil­ters in pho­tog­ra­phy. We dis­cuss fil­ters in tra­di­tional black and white pho­tog­ra­phy, colour pho­tog­ra­phy and fil­ters in dig­i­tal photography.

For more in depth infor­ma­tion on fil­ters in pho­tog­ra­phy Wikipedia has some good information.

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This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast‚fea­tures an inter­view with Mon­treal pho­tog­ra­pher Andre Nan­tel. In this inter­view we talk about macro pho­tog­ra­phy and we also talk about Andre’s per­sonal expe­ri­ences with the tra­di­tional (Alamy‚& Acclaim Images)and micro (Shut­ter­stock & Istock­photo) stock photography‚houses. Other links in the show include Lise Gagne’s work at Istock­photo. You can download‚this pho­tog­ra­phy podcast‚directly‚by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link‚or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the player below.

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By using objects like win­dows, branches, and arch­ways we can frame our sub­jects in inter­est­ing ways that add unique­ness to our pho­tographs. In this pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast we talk about this tech­nique called framing.

Using Purse han­dles as a frame

Using a bag as a frame

Pho­tog­ra­phy Pod­cast tran­script 10

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