photography session w/heather champ
(i’ll have to fill in the details later, so my notes make more sense.)
heather started out as a painter. taught herself how to do page layout, and did design. fell into love w/web (print has limitation). 96 bought first digital camera. talked about the camera collection she has.
composition is key. you won’t go anywhere with that photo if it has bad composition. rule of thirds: a slight imbalance creats tension & helps views focus on important part (wikipedia.org/wiki/ruleofthirds). what to shoot? ordinary things can be beautiful. take many, share the best. what’s the most compelling? people are more interested in compelling shots. don’t make users scroll through a bunch of pics.
crop to about 800 pixels in size. and use 72 dpi – that’s all you need for the web. do an unsharpen mask. then copy the layer and make a mask to sharpen just a selective area by painting white over the mask (you have to make the mask black).
(even with a pro account on flickr, there is a limit in space.) shutterpoint.com, smugmug.com
also, to meet people or to get the courage to photograph people. try a project, like heather’s work in progress on flickr (where people are holding cards with a word on them).
