Like any good photography enthusiast, you’ve probably read this strange article about the mistakes to avoid in photography, right?Well, these are definitely good advice that you should learn and pay attention to. But what if I told you that you can often convert mistakes?In your best artistic ally? Because photography, like all art, is not limited to a series of unbreakable rules; Photography, and art in general, has evolved through the innovation, discovery, originality and audacity of many before you and I, who create trends and to whom we owe much of the “rules” we apply today when we capture an image.
The only thing you should always keep in mind is what makes one different?Simple mistake? One mistake, let’s say “artistic” is to think in advance about what you want to do, what you want to achieve by breaking this specific scheme. , you can also propose one?Error? Creative casual, but this should not be the norm, because the important thing is to use it with full awareness, to get the most out of it.
So, without further ado, let’s look at some examples of their conversion (errors) into creative photos:
Are there many ways to do this? As for composition, we know that there are third-party rules and the amount of gold among so many others, but don’t you think if we all always follow the same rules, all the photographs would be very similar?
Blurry close-up: It’s perhaps a more journalistic photography style, we see a blurry close-up and a concentrated background, two stories in one image. Perhaps what our brain naturally claims is the concentrated foreground, because it is more natural, but breaking this pattern, can get a different and more original effect.
Center the main object of the image: One way to break the rule of thirds is to center our object of interest. As long as it’s justified, know why you’re doing it and what you’re going to get. See what great examples have come to us through the “Center” challenge.
Cutting off heads, feet, hands? You can get really amazing effects if you dare to do it. From intense looks in portraits to interesting street photographs. Think you’re forgetting everything you have left at this point; therefore, what remains gains strength, you give it meaning; the viewer of his image understands that what is missing for some reason.
For example, in the following image, this technique was used for a portrait. Do you cut off your chin, your hands, your lip, your forehead?which causes you to look into your eyes, even if they’re not looking at the camera, but get lost in something out of the image that we can’t see.
If you want to delve into this technique of composition, here is a great article about this type of portraits.
A fisheye for portraits? Yes, even though the effect obtained will be far from a realistic photograph, something to consider first, are they called lenses?Fish eyes, can they offer interesting perspectives, even in portraits.
Look at the image below as it covers the different shots of an image, the three girls in the front, the boy on the right stairs and two other boys playing behind them. Don’t the chosen optics and mount create an interesting effect??
When facing an image, you should always take into account the type of light that illuminates the scene, for this we always adjust the white balance of our camera, to avoid these greens in fluorescent lights, those orange tones of the interior lights. (tungsten lamps) or any ambient light tone that hinders the final result of the image, however, knowing how to play with the color temperature when capturing your images can open a new field of expression, more dreamlike, more artificial and subjective, since an image of warm domination does not express the same as a cold blue or green image , if you justify its use will help you tell different stories in your photos.
If you need more information about white balance and color temperature, Mario explains it very clearly in this full article.
High contrast images: You’ve probably already learned to read your camera histogram, if you have any questions, you can check everything you need to know about exposure here.
In general, a high-contrast image leads to a histogram with very few midtones and large peaks in light and dark tones, i. e. an image based on lights and shadows and with little information about midtones. High contrast images have led us to Lose a lot of information in photography, especially textures, because when?forcing white and black, we lose information about everything between the two extremes, however, by losing this information you can get a much more formal and subjective image, based on lines, light and darkness. It can give you good results in black and white and color.
Because photography is light, it is essential to be a good connoisseur and know how to play with it to photograph any scene. Is almost everything worth it here? Can you overexpose, underexpose, play with the days gone by, with the sun’s rays? It is not always necessary to search for the “correct” image, let go, put the camera in manual mode, remove the blocker and watch the rays of the sun create interesting effects on your image. Do you know the dreaded flares? Those circles of light that appear in your images when light hits your optics directly?
See the images below. Both were performed in front of the sun, taking advantage of the effects of direct light on the optics.
Noise is closely associated with the ISO you use when capturing your image. The higher the ISO, the greater the noise and vice versa. Iaio explains it wonderfully here. As a photographer and in the world of photography in general, we always seek clarity when we want to approach the explanation of reality as we see it; the noise bothers us in our images at night, we look for the best lenses and the best cameras?But is noise an integral part of photography, in fact, the big photographic marks?to have the most “beautiful” noise; the closest thing to the grain the coils gave us. Because noise or grain is not always annoying, the noise highlights the old, the passage of time, the night, the darkness, is more intimate and generates sensations that a perfectly sharp photograph may not make.
Movement is one of the easiest ways to add vitality to an image, and to achieve this technically, it only plays at low speed (lowering ISO, closing the diaphragm or just in low light scenarios?) With a tripod (or with a good pulse) and moving subjects. You can use various techniques to achieve movement; you can print the movement only in the background through the scans, you can use the zoom to create interesting motion games, etc. If you want to immerse yourself in it, you can’t miss this article that contains everything you need to know about the movement.
At this point, you will have seen that there are many very interesting ways to break the rules of photography. Think for a moment about what would have happened if no one had dared to break the rules, where would Van Gogh, Dali, Picasso be? , Frida Kahlo, Botero and so many other unforgettable artists will they be today? You might think that they are all simply united by their originality and genius, which is true, but beyond that, they are united by the fact that they all master the technique perfectly. (in this case pictorial) and that thanks to him they have developed their talent and pushed it further, creating a new and original language.
So once the technique is part of you, let yourself go, innovate, and if you like what you do and feel comfortable defending it, never stop learning and trying new things, and above all feel what you do, you don’t just have to think when you take pictures, you have to feel them, and the more you do, the more they know each other and the closer they will be to find What are you looking for?
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