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If you’ve ever taken a photograph and felt like it was “floating” or missing an element that connected the subject to the environment around it, you might be forgetting to anchor your photography. Anchoring, completing, connecting, sitting and a dozen other words to describe it simply mean to show the connection of a subject and it’s supporting limbs or structure to the rest of the photograph.

It’s why you’ve always heard to never cut off a person at the ankles in a photograph. When you show the ground they’re standing on, you anchor them to the environment and give them the visual support they need in an image. Here are a few to watch out for and think about the next time you’re framing up a subject.

via Anchoring Your Photography.

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Light is an essential element of photography. The art of photography itself rests on the understanding and making the most of the available light. The lights affect the way the camera interprets and portrays the subject or the scene. Before using the lights for capturing the required effects and details, one should have a sound knowledge of the various features of lights. Check out the article on lighting and it’s features here. Let’s look at the various aspects of lights and technique of using the lights efficiently.

via Natural Lighting — 10 Tips To Make The Most Of The Available Lights.

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Multiple exposure is the ability of getting multiple exposures more than one picture on the single frame. This translates to photographing the same subject at varying exposures and thereafter merging the exposures to result in the creative piece of art. Multiple exposure is an effective technique for creative photography. It enables you to introduce special effects to objects. With this technique you can render dreamy & nostalgic air to the scene, enhance the subject or the scene with special effects. It opens up the creative possibilities for the photographer. It takes some inspiration to know where you are heading. Here are three steps to get started with multiple exposure photography.

via Multiple Exposure — Creating Multiple Exposure Photographs In 3 Simple Steps.

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Focus stacking is a technique used to increase depth of field in a shot with post production. This works especially well for shots using long lens and in this case, a macro lens. Let’s go back to some photography 101 here. There are three factors that will affect depth of field or ‘bokeh’:

1. Focal length. Essentially the longer your lens, the more shallow your depth of field is.

2. Distance to subject. The nearer you are to your subject, the shallower your depth of field is and it very much applies to macro lens.

3. Aperture settings. The more you open up the aperture of your lens, the resulting image has a shallower depth of field. This, however, does not matter as much where the photo above is concerned.

via An Introduction to Focus Stacking.

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Black and White photography is among one of the most striking forms. Photos sans color require an enhanced use of lighting, shadows, and subject.

via 31 Stunning Black and White Subject Study Photos on Imagekind.

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