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| 1,000 feet over Buffalo N.Y. photographer James Madd captures the incoming storm, last week. As wind rushed in the city prepared for the snow, locking doors and closing roads. The storm covered the city and stayed for several days, keeping everyone on lockdown, yesterday afternoon the snow stopped and people emerged to a winter wonderland. |
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| Leaping for cheering crowds Fancy, the star of the Ethel Bros Circus's horse show, finishes his performance with a curtsy, at least, as close as a horse can come to one. Fancy came into the circuses possession when he was a foal and has been well-rained since then. He has been the star of the horse show for three years, taking over when his former, Griffin, got to old to do the show. |
1. Rule of thirds
Make a tic-tac-toe board over the photo, place the subject on one of the crosses
2. Balancing Elements
Either side of the photo should have something to balance out the other side
3. Leading Lines
Lines in the photo that lead your eyes to the subject
4. Symmetry and Patterns (repetition)
If you were to fold the photo in half it would be almost the exact same on either side. A repetition of color or shape that leads your eyes across the photo.
5. Viewpoint
The position the photographer thames the photo from, below, above, eye level, etc.
6. Background
A simple background helps the viewer to figure out what the subject is and to keep their attention on it.
7. Create depth
Having layers in your photo going back, getting blurrier as they go, helping give the illusion of depth.
8. Framing
A border surrounding your subject and highlighting what the viewer should be focusing on.
9. Cropping
Cropping in closer to get only the subject and nothing else around it to distract from the subject.
10. Mergers and avoiding them
Mergers can make objects less defined, cut people out of a photo, or make you want to warn someone that it looks like that seagull is about to run into them. To avoid them review your surroundings for possible mergers and check for them before taking the photo.
Aperture, controls the about of light in your photo, the smaller the aperture diaphragm the larger the f-stop. The larger the diaphragm the more light come in, and visa versa.
Shutter Speed, the amount of time your shutter is open, shutter speed can freeze movement and is measured in fractions of seconds.
ISO, determines the sensitivity of the light in the photo and if misused can make the photo grainy.
Formal - The subject is looking at you and might be dressed up or have makeup
Environmental - The subject is interacting with their environment
Self - The subject is your self
Casual - The subject is in a casual pose
Exposure - The amount of light per unit reaching the image sensor as determined by shutter speed, lens aperture and scene luminance.
Depth of Field - the distance between the nearest and furthest objects that give an image judged to be in focus in a camera.
Focal Length - The distance between the center of a lens or curved mirror and its focus.
In The Forest of Words
Soon words and cover lines become an important part of magazine covers. Some cover lines become bigger than the titles of the magazines and competed with the title for your attention. The images are no longer foreground, put behind cover lines, titles, and sneak preview photos of what's inside.
Formal - The subject is looking at you and might be dressed up or have makeup
Environmental - The subject is interacting with their environment
Self - The subject is your self
Casual - The subject is in a casual pose
Exposure - The amount of light per unit reaching the image sensor as determined by shutter speed, lens aperture and scene luminance.
Depth of Field - the distance between the nearest and furthest objects that give an image judged to be in focus in a camera.
Focal Length - The distance between the center of a lens or curved mirror and its focus.
Early Magazine Covers
Earlier Magazine covers had basic covers with a title, a small illustration centered underneath it, and the author's name under that. The illustration did not relate to the subject of the article but was instead mainly for decoration. Keeping up with the times, magazine covers became more Victorian during the era. Artistic lettering and leafy, viney, and flowery designs began to show up on covers but as the times moved on so did the magazines.
Postor Covers
As magazines moved on they morphed into the poster cover. A poster cover magazine consists of one large image that usually doesn't inform about the article inside, a logo that doesn't cover the photo, and an absence of cover lines. Although most poster cover images did not relate to the story inside the magazine they did generally convey a season, feeling or mood.
Posters Married to Type
Soon enough magazine covers started to include cover lines later followed by pictures that were related to the story inside. Soon the subjects of the articles started taking to modeling for the pictures that would go on the covers of the magazines. Sometimes a magazine would underline the most important subjects or the main article's cover lines, drawing attention to them.
Earlier Magazine covers had basic covers with a title, a small illustration centered underneath it, and the author's name under that. The illustration did not relate to the subject of the article but was instead mainly for decoration. Keeping up with the times, magazine covers became more Victorian during the era. Artistic lettering and leafy, viney, and flowery designs began to show up on covers but as the times moved on so did the magazines.
Postor Covers
As magazines moved on they morphed into the poster cover. A poster cover magazine consists of one large image that usually doesn't inform about the article inside, a logo that doesn't cover the photo, and an absence of cover lines. Although most poster cover images did not relate to the story inside the magazine they did generally convey a season, feeling or mood.
Posters Married to Type
Soon enough magazine covers started to include cover lines later followed by pictures that were related to the story inside. Soon the subjects of the articles started taking to modeling for the pictures that would go on the covers of the magazines. Sometimes a magazine would underline the most important subjects or the main article's cover lines, drawing attention to them.
In The Forest of Words
Soon words and cover lines become an important part of magazine covers. Some cover lines become bigger than the titles of the magazines and competed with the title for your attention. The images are no longer foreground, put behind cover lines, titles, and sneak preview photos of what's inside.
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