Asian Photography – July 2019

creative focuSSing

One of the most similar problems

that amateur photographers do is poor

focussing with either focusing on the

background or slightly in front. You can take

your focusing problems and make them

better by some creative focusing where you

don’t just get it slightly wrong. But make

your shots obviously out of focus.

This technique works better especially

when you either have a plain background

which means nothing in your shot is in

focus or when there’s a secondary element

of the image that you leave in focus with

the main focal point out of focus enough for

it to be obvious but in focus enough to be

recognised.

o ver expoSe your ShotS

Experiment with different
exposure levels. Boost your exposure
compensation to the maximum and you
will end up with brightly burnt out images.
Exposure is a creative choice that you
make to help achieve a particular goal.
This can be effective if you are
photographing brightly colourful objects
as you can end up with them on a
background of bright burnt out parts
of the scene. The high key images look
beautiful if used correctly.

TEXT: dishanT parEkh

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