Author Archives: claudiabrookes
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Have You Seen…..?
The nice people over at Have You Seen…..? have profiled two of my projects ‘The Fallacy of Hope’ and ‘Silent Cry’ on their online magazine about art photography. This new venture aims to showcase work from current art photographers that aren’t quite established yet. Go check them out for the latest on exciting new photography [...]
The Fallacy of Hope
It is about the environment essentially, about the long term and short term solutions we adopt, and the idea of my work is to engage my audience in a debate, rather than convey a one-way message. It is constructed from paper and food like meringue and mash potato and I have chosen to use the [...]
Photographing in special situations!
Sun and Snow! Ok budding photographers, as we get more confident with our skills we need to be able to recognise potential problems when out and about and how to deal with them! My next article is about lighting situations. It is very rare in scenic photography to have to pay special attention to shadowed [...]
Why some lenses are black and some are white!
Have you ever wondered why some lenses are white while some are black? Well the reason for this is that lenses contain glass elements in. In high temperature glass expands. The expansion is very small and insignificant with compact lenses and so is never a problem. But very large lenses have large elements of glass, [...]
How to take a landscape scene at night
Ok, So firstly you have to understand that at night, you have very low available light. In low light conditions you can compensate through increasing the ISO or the exposure time. ISO comes from the greek word isos meaning equal. In photography we use this system to refer to how sensitive your ‘film’ is to [...]