Photo 52 : Within the Frame / Classic Portraiture – Headshot
This week we begin our one month compositional study of portraits. We begin with one of the most classic portraits of all all time- the headshot. A headshot typically comprises the head to shoulder...
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Within the Frame / Classic Portraiture – Half Body [& Happy Birthday]
He loves soccer, tennis, hockey – pretty much all sports, watching and playing them. He is obsessed with Pokémon cards. When his little brother can’t handle losing he lets him win. He wants to try...
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Within the Frame / Classic Portraiture – Full Body
As we continue to explore classic portraiture, this week we are delving into composition for full body portraits. Like the three-quarter shot we explored last week, full body composition offers clues...
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Within the Frame / Classic Portraiture – Groups
Photographing groups of people can be an especially challenging and rewarding exercise in creative composition. A modern approach to a posed group portrait might focus on subjects physically touching...
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Within the Frame / Classic Portraiture – Photographer’s Choice
Our collective love of portraiture and our passion for capturing the lives of our families is the spark that brought us together here at Who We Become. After four weeks of exploring the diverse aspects...
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Within the Frame / Creative Complexity – Depth of Field
Depth of field is a fundamental technical concept in photography. It refers to the amount of the field of view that is in sharp focus, and results from three factors: the lens aperture, the length of...
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Within the Frame / Creative Complexity – Filling the Frame
While the setting is often important in a photograph, sometimes our artistic intention is to draw full attention to our subject. Filling the frame edge to edge by moving closer, zooming in, or cropping...
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Within the Frame / Creative Complexity – Layering within the Frame
In our final week of creative complexity exercises, our compositional goal is to use layering within the frame. Layering is a powerful narrative and compositional technique which uses the foreground,...
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Within the Frame / Classic Compositions – Rule of Thirds
Our August topic is Classic Rules of Composition. The Rule of Thirds is a traditional guideline for composing an image which divides the canvas into nine equal parts. In composing your image, placing a...
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Within the Frame / Classic Compositions – Centering
Centering the subject has often been seen as a beginner technique, because the resulting composition is not viewed as being as dynamic compared to other compositions (for example, last weeks’ Rule of...
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Within the Frame / Classic Compositions – Golden Triangle
We continue our month-long study of classic compositional techniques by exploring the proportions of the Golden Triangle, a compositional tool of using triangles within the frame. The rule generally...
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Within the Frame / Classic Compositions – Golden Spiral
For our fourth week of classic compositional techniques, we are focusing on the golden spiral, which is a compositional tool based on Fibonacci’s Ratio and the golden rectangle. To create a golden...
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Within the Frame / Classic Composition – Photographer’s Choice
Summer is quickly coming to an end and we are closing out our month on traditional compositional techniques. Our final week is Photographer’s Choice, where we put to use one or more of the techniques...
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Within the Frame / Creative Composition – Multiple Exposure
In our last month of our Photo 52 project, we are exploring creative composition. Our first creative composition technique is Multiple Exposure, superimposing two or more images on top of each other....
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Within the Frame / Creative Composition – Intentionally Out of Focus
Focus is a paramount in photography. However, sometimes photographers choose to use focus in a different way – to draw the viewers eyes to contrasting colors, other elements that are accentuated by...
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Within the Frame / Creative Composition – Photographer’s Choice
This month’s theme has been devoted to a breaking-the-rules approach to composition: for example the study of multiple exposure, as well as images that are intentionally captured out-of-focus. Breaking...
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Within the Frame – Best of the Year
The final week of Photo 52: Within the Frame. The end of the second year of our collaborative photography project. Over the course of this year we studied composition ranging from geometric framing to...
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Hiatus 1
Who We Become may be on hiatus, but our cameras are not. We are in the process of putting together our syllabus for our next P52 and will be launching in January. We hope to make our new project as...
View ArticlePhoto 52 : Hiatus 2
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