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What Doesn’t Make You Stronger Kills You by Thann Clark
What Doesn’t Make you Stronger, Kills You. What you should know about critiques. Anyone attempting anything creative has to face criticism. Whether you are seeking an informed opinion, or dealing...
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Great Artists Don’t Steal by Thann Clark
“Good artists copy, great artists steal” – Pablo Picasso “Great artists steal” is an intriguing quote, but is it really true? What kind of theft are we actually talking about? Were Picasso, Dali, and...
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Forget the Rule of Thirds by Thann Clark
Composition is the soul of photography, but not an easy subject to master, and not one that can be learned by following simple rules. The first thing inevitably taught in photographic composition is...
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Directing the Eye Part 1 – Psychological Elements by Thann Clark
Directing the Eye Part 1 – Psychological Elements Composition is the art of arranging things in a photograph to achieve the maximum impact. It is affected by where you choose to place objects, how you...
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Directing The Eye Part 2 – Contrast And Color
The visual elements that direct the eye are: Contrast, Color, Focus, and Size (balance). Contrast and Color are two elements you have control over during the shooting process and in post. In this...
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Sigma 12-24mm F4.5-5.6 DG HSM II Lens Review by Thann Clark
Sigma 12-24mm F4.5-5.6 DG HSM II Lens Review by Thann Clark I am picky when it comes to wide-angle lenses, I’m not a big fan of fish-eye, or ultra-wide lenses, there is usually too much distortion for...
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Directing the Eye Part 3 – Focus by Thann Clark
Directing the Eye Part 3 – Focus Using focus to direct the eye is taken for granted — so much so its effect can often go unnoticed — but its pull is absolute. Focus might not draw the eye as...
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Directing the Eye Part 4 – Size by Thann Clark
Directing the Eye Part 4 – Size When we talk about size in a photograph we are actually talking about relationships; either the relation of the subject to the frame, or its relation to something else...
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Directing the Eye Part 5 – Putting It All Together by Thann Clark
Directing the Eye Part 5 – Putting It All Together by Thann Clark We have covered the psychological elements that naturally direct the eye: faces, eyes, pattern interruption, text and the visual...
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The Power of Face-ism
The term “face-ism” and the concept comes from a study on gender bias in the way men and women are portrayed in photographs*. Researchers studied magazines and media and found that photographs of men...
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