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Mirror portrait photography

Mirror portrait photography is more common than might seem; wedding photographers and advertising photographers sometimes take these kind of photographs and they can be very effective
Wedding photographers often take photographs of the bride styling her hair when she’s looking in the mirror on the morning of her wedding, for example.
But someone else can […]

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Spider-man photo composition

In the movies and on TV sometimes a character suddenly appears, kind of pops up from nowhere, often in a corner of the screen. It’s possible to create this kind of scene in photography, as I recently discovered.
I took the above picture at the official opening of a new playgroup, and it was taken for […]

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Balanced photo essay

In a post called objects of desire I mentioned that some people view skyscrapers not just asĀ  symbols of big business but also as symbols of control - the control that big business supposedly has over our lives.
This is a pretty unfavorable view, and it’s also a pretty imbalanced view. For example, another view might […]

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