Several of these photos have appeared on my blog before in various posts, I´ve now put a collection of them into a gallery where they can all be viewed together. All the images were shot on a recent trip to Northern India. Enjoy. [smooth=id:13; arrows:true; carousel:false; links:false; info:true; width:850; height:500;] All images © TomBourdon.co.uk
Read more... →It’s come around quick again but yep its that time of the month when I share one of my images with the world in the form of a desktop wallpaper. This (or should that be next) months wallpaper is an image shot in Varanassi, India on my last visit. In fact thinking about it, it was shot about a month after I shot last months image of the Taj, so it seems kind of appropriate. Instructions for use: Click the
Read more... →Today’s festival shoot was Tomatina, the great tomato fight held near Valencia, Spain on the last Wednesday of August each year. Now the day didn’t go exactly as planned. Valencia is (or should be) about 5 hours from Barcelona. I had planned to get the bus very early in the morning, shoot the craziness, then come home. What actually happened was the bus arrived over 2 and a half hours late which meant I was only able to catch the
Read more... →I hadn’t planned to blog today but last night I was out here in Barcelona, shooting a Corre foc (translation: fire run) and wanted to share my images with you. This is the second of such celebration I’ve been to and they’re great fun. To find out more and see my images from last years event I’ve got a gallery on my site here. Anyway here are the images. Enjoy and let me know what you think.
Read more... →Now forgive me if I get a bit conceptual here but I think this is important and interesting too. Contrast can take several forms in the creation of an image, the most obvious is contrast of light and that little slider we play with when processing our images (the technical term for this is apparently called ‘chiaroscuro’ Mitchell Kanashkevich explains more in an interesting blog post here). In actual fact this contrast is the relationship between highlights and shadows or
Read more... →Ok so next in this series I thought I’d cover the so called ‘rule of thirds’. Now let me first say that as far as photography goes there are very few actual rules and don’t be tricked into thinking that this is actually one of them. Its not. Its basically no more than a guideline, a pretty good one mind you – but still far from a rule. Its one of the first things that any budding photographer will learn,
Read more... →This technique is probably one of the best ways to improve photography, so forget that new lens, or a new body with 11fps, and think more about what’s going on in the frame. Having a frame within a frame (if your not sure what I’m talking about check out the examples below, you’ll soon catch up) not only focuses attention on a particular area of an image but also adds physical depth to the shot. It forces the view to
Read more... →Continuing on from my previous post on cropping, I think its helpful to look at the shape of a frame and how different formats effects the feel of the final image. Until the digital photography revolution took hold the standard aspect ratio was 3:2 as that was the ratio of the 35mm film frame (36x24mm) other larger formats were, and still are, used (Hey even I had a medium format film camera some years back). Nowadays digital cameras are not
Read more... →Today marks the begining of a new series of blog posts about composition, not sure how many posts I’ll be adding to this series – just see how things pan out. Well first off is the subject of cropping. No matter how you look at it, cropping is a real skill. Its not a new technique and was done long before Photoshop came to life, and is, at least for me, an important part of processing an image. Often when
Read more... →
Recent Comments