Learn Mobile Photography Technologies For Incredible Photos
I just completed a great course on Udemy. I have been learning how to build my body confidence with posing for photos. Some people just seem to take better photos than me and often the pictures I take do not build my confidence as much as I would like, so I decided to undertake this course which is focused on Samsung phones.
I had a Samsung when I started but to be honest I am a Pixel customer now. The course was incredible and showed me some fantastic techniques. I am going to try my best to use the course content to take some fantastic photos, one for each technique. I will say however that my hope was to learn how to pose for camera and the course was mostly focused on backgrounds, leading lines, sunsets etc. Not posing people so it did not hit the exact need criteria of creating confident, well-posed pictures. There is always more to learn.
So with the picture above I was trying to use the trees and the over hanging branch to create a framing effect. It might be more successful if I trimmed off the right bit of with the blue sky. But it was very picture-esque anyway. It kind of says to me how far one can get from the city without leaving Croydon.
This was a bit of a failure. I was trying to capture Dobbie my dog in the foreground and go close to the ground to get more foreground, but unfortunately she doesn't hold still for very long. She ended up not quite on the edge of the third and not quite in the centre. The the darkness of tree draws the eyes in with the footpath's leading lines so there is almost something ominous about that big tree in what was supposed to be the background but seems to create a second layer of foreground.
This was done on someone else's phone so I could not get the colour quite right and it was immediately interrupted by other family members getting to the shot and doing whatever they wanted before I could truly get my mum posed properly. But by sheer luck truly, one picture truly encapsulated the beauty of her outfit. It really shocks me how my mum can so often espouse so many personality types traditionally reserved for men in the mass media to the point where you might cease to think of her as a woman, but then she pulls out such a beautiful outfit such as this and truly embraces her femininity.
Graeme