Thursday post 10-23-08
Environment
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) American speaker and motivational writer.
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Peterson, Bryan. Learning to See Creatively: Design, Color, and Composition in Photography. Watson-Gutpill Publications: New York, 2003.
This book covers several areas of photography including environmental portraits, in which the author favors 35mm and 50mm focal lengths. Bryan Peterson has been a professional commercial photographer for over thirty years, shooting for clients that include American Express, BP, Kodak, and UPS. His work has been featured in the Communication Arts Photography Annual seven times, four times in Print Magazine, as well as being rewarded with the New York Art Directors Gold Award. He also serves as a contributing editor for Popular Photography Magazine and has published three other books, Understanding Exposure, Understanding Digital, and Beyond Portraits.
Recently I have been experimenting with the success of environmental portraits for my project. I don’t want to rely completely on a pure environmental portrait, in which none of the background is manipulated in Photoshop since I’ve often found that the environments don’t always lend themselves to looking good in a photo. Mostly the spaces are too small and the angles of things in the background get skewed and distorted in odd ways that don’t work for my images. I’m not sure if it qualifies as an environmental portrait if I photoshop the background, but I am taking that background from an actual environment and just manipulating where the person is in that environment to correct for physical impossibilities.
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Send quote to a friend
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) American speaker and motivational writer.
http://en.proverbia.net
Peterson, Bryan. Learning to See Creatively: Design, Color, and Composition in Photography. Watson-Gutpill Publications: New York, 2003.
This book covers several areas of photography including environmental portraits, in which the author favors 35mm and 50mm focal lengths. Bryan Peterson has been a professional commercial photographer for over thirty years, shooting for clients that include American Express, BP, Kodak, and UPS. His work has been featured in the Communication Arts Photography Annual seven times, four times in Print Magazine, as well as being rewarded with the New York Art Directors Gold Award. He also serves as a contributing editor for Popular Photography Magazine and has published three other books, Understanding Exposure, Understanding Digital, and Beyond Portraits.
Recently I have been experimenting with the success of environmental portraits for my project. I don’t want to rely completely on a pure environmental portrait, in which none of the background is manipulated in Photoshop since I’ve often found that the environments don’t always lend themselves to looking good in a photo. Mostly the spaces are too small and the angles of things in the background get skewed and distorted in odd ways that don’t work for my images. I’m not sure if it qualifies as an environmental portrait if I photoshop the background, but I am taking that background from an actual environment and just manipulating where the person is in that environment to correct for physical impossibilities.
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