Fiim, Film, more medium format film photography

Landscape Behold the countryside. It awaits your creative vision to capture a permanent record of what you see today. For a great,as opposed to an ordinary, image the image musts have emotion. It must create feelings in the mind of the observer. So as you capture images you might ask yourself “Am I emotionally affected by what I see?” As a part of my procedure when I observe a scene I stop, set up my tripod and camera and look through the lens. Then, before exposing I move three steps to the left reset the camera ,recompose, and check out the scene. Next I do the same thing to the right of where I started. From this I gain perspective and the creative side of my brain blossoms forth to recognize my best potential. Now, having selected the scene I wish to capture, I start adding and subtracting filters. I check the effect of each filter through the lens and evaluate. Having determined the above I then have to decide, by the use of “depth of field” what

Leading Lines Leading lines can make or break an image depending on how they are or are not used. The above is an image of Fain Lake in central Arizona. It has a few nice enough reflections but overall the image is rather blah. There is nothing to draw you to a focal point and the rather overall pastel green coloring is nothing very exciting. Why is it that some images instantly attract and some instantly repel? The answer could well be a question such as-- Is there a part of the image to which the eye is inexorably drawn? If so why? The answer most times is there are image lines creek,path, river, bridge etc. that draw they attention of the viewer toward the principal object of the image. This then becomes important in the construction of photographic images. This also emphasizes the importance of image composition which I usually label image construction. So as you look for and set up an image to capture it is my opinion that there are a series of steps that