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DSLR User April Welcome:
Editor’s bit...
Let's get back to basics
Composition is, I think, probably the hardest part of photography. Once you have mastered the basics of your camera and lenses and found yourself a location or subject, that’s where it starts to get hard. It’s not a matter of a right and wrong way, as there are some basic ‘rules’ that are worth following. But an open vista in front of you, or a model in a nice outfit, presents a blank canvas for you to create something.
I myself always take a little time to get into the swing of a shoot; I like to have a few images to light the photographic fire, as it were, and then I can really start to get going. So it’s with this in mind that I’ve dedicated this issue. I’ve come up with ten ‘laws’ that represent the cornerstones of our photographic foundation. Keep these in mind all the time and you will definitely be on the right road to taking better, more creative images.
Okay, the vast majority of these laws do have some overlap, but then doesn’t everything in photography? I mean, how many times can I tell you 1/125sec at f/8! Also, most are inter-connected in some way too, and often need to be used in conjunction with each other. But, using the masses of experience from working professional photographers throughout this issue, I can show you the ‘right way’. So from Will Cheung’s piece on the rule-of-thirds, Steve Gosling covering explaining using the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci sequence and Tom Mackie’s essential guide to lead-in lines, through to Karl Shaw’s creative use of apertures with composition and Simon Watkinson’s feature about creating balance, plus loads more besides. We have a comprehensive package of essential reading for the beginner and enthusiast photographer to polish their composition – and photographic skills in general.
Well that covers the main technique section. Of course we have our regulars in the form of 12-pages for Camera Clubs, and all their news, images and the competition for the Photographer of the Year kicks off this issue. The Take Control technique projects with a shell from Mick Cookson.
Portrait photographer Drew Gardner is our Big Interview this month and I think you’ll agree he is an inspiration to us all. As are Jamie’s images for the stunning Isle of Skye in Portfolio – see pages 80 onwards for these.
In the back in the Gear section we have News, Oly’s new Pen 2 and the new semi-pro Alpha 850. So, all in all another issue that I hope you will enjoy reading from cover to cover that you will feel encourages, inspires, entertains and educates… to read it all, but I know there are only 28 days in February!
Adam Scorey
Editor of DSLR User Magazine
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