Some members will already have a strong grounding in both their capture and post-production technique, so what's next for them? In the list below we hope you'll find a number of portfolios and techniques that will get your creative juices flowing - and perhaps one of them is just the catalyst for your next photographic project!
3D Lut Creator When you get into editing colour, you may find changes you want to make don't seem to be possible with the colour… Armature The armature of the rectangle is a grid of lines and intersections at which important and significant elements in a painting sit. Many Renassiance… Size of Display In our modern world of digital displays, we tend to accept that the size of a photograph equals the size of the… Caravaggio If there is one word that describes Caravaggio's work for me, it is 'Light'! It is bold, dramatic and moving. And it often occurs… Eddie Ephraums I was introduced to Eddie's work when sent a copy of his book on landscape photography and the amazing way he printed his… L*a*b* Color You know what an RGB file is all about (red, green, blue). Well, there's another colour model that does things a little differently… Franco Fontana You know, that classic Tuscan landscape with the pencil pines and ploughed fields, compressed into a minimalist composition of simple lines, shapes and… Linear Curves Photographers who claim to love using their photos 'straight out of the camera' should start with a linear curve - as it is… Caspar David Friedrich For some people, the Romantic art movement isn't serious enough, but I think it says more about the critics than the art… Michael Kenna A true art photographer in every sense of the word, Michael Kenna still works comfortably with a medium format film camera and produces… Grant Mudford Precision framing or cropping is fundamental to Grant Mudford's large format Amercian landscape of nothing in particular. A master of the banal landscape,… High Resolution Photography When you move up from a 24-megapixel sensor, everything changes in subtle ways and this applies whether you're shooting with a full… Direct Attention If you want to simplify composition down to a single principle, it's this: how do we direct our viewer's attention to what we… Irving Penn I don't believe in having a favourite photograph or favourite photographer, but if I had to have one, it would be Irving Penn.… Dynamic Tension This is a tough one to explain, despite so many people talking about it! A photograph without dynamic tension can look boring, staid,… Rocky Schenck While the black and white photography of Ansel Adams has inspired generations of photographers, including myself, his masterful approach has changed in our… Space Negative space is a cool term used when discussing the merits of a photograph. 'There's too much negative space' or 'It needs more negative… Shape, Sparkle & Pop Towards the end of the editing process, I often find my images have lost some of their original tonality and look… Timing You can have the best camera, the best light and an amazing subject, but if you don't press the shutter you won't have a… Grahame Sydney A contemporary New Zealand painter who has spread his interests to photography and visual media generally, I love Grahame Sydney's choice of subject… Pete Turner Did someone mention 200% colour saturation? Using slide film and a copier, Pete Turner pushed the limits of colour photography back in the…
