Arctic Shooting

24 01 2010

After moving country and job (to Finland and Futurice) I am back to share with you some things I am learning in photography.

This post is just to let you all know that I am back and share some of my pictures I took this January. As it is beep beep beep beep cold here, this morning I woke up to a nice -20 C, I wanted to shoot some pictures depicting the long cold Finish winter and the Arctic climate.  Besides cold I also tried to convey the emptiness of the frozen sea.  The link below will take you to my Smugmug album. Leave a comment here or in the album and let me know if I succeeded.

Gallery link

Happy shooting

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Tip: Ignore aspect ratio’s

2 08 2009


Beach houses on Texelby Peter Tennekes

One of the most important and easy editing tool you have is cropping. Most people stick to the standard 4:3 (or 3:2) aspect ratio (often a check-box ‘constrict to master aspect ratio’ or something like this). This is not needed. You should pick the crop which works best for the image at hand. Your photo is an artistic expression and shouldn’t be limited by some arbitrary standard.
Things to take into consideration are getting rid of distractions, overall composition (like Rule of Thirds), good color balance etc.
The argument for sticking to the ratio is the standard photo paper sizes. Most images live on the web nowadays and never get printed. And when you do want to print, you can easily add borders to fit it to the paper.

Happy shooting (and cropping)

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