Category: Atmospheric Phenomena

10/26/17

Why we Love to Compose IN Camera!

After-cropping, historically an editor’s job, is an afterthought that often leads to unintentional compositional destruction, and an overly “expected” static design. Photographers preserve the full frame of the medium to create artful shapes and lines that are pleasing to their viewing audience. It is done in the energetic moment when the shot is happening. This is not just about the obvious subject alone, the sweet magic happens when foreground, subject plane, background elements (and NO unneeded distractions!) align in harmony.

 

Where Land Meets Sea and Sky Coastal Georgia Photography Photo Workshop with Robin Davis

Aligning these three simple elements within our pre-chosen format is just pure joy.

 

On our Coastal Georgia Workshop Days, there is a simple relaxed freedom in how we see our full picture frame, deciding up front whether our shots will be contained harmonically as a 2:3 (35mm) ratio, a perfect 1:1 square, or a panorama of connected squares like 1:2, 1:3, or 1:4. All of these professionally preferred formats are based on connecting squares and just naturally build pleasing forms when you actively engage the frame. The fun game we play together is to get closer and closer to the edges, while consciously cropping out distractions. It is thrilling to see the unique personality of each photographer coming through!

 

My upcoming workshops are designed to give us time to relax, see, and truly work with these powerful forms.

 

St Simons Jekyll Island Coastal Georiga PHoto Photography Workshop with Robin Davis

Marsh Storm by Robin Davis

 

Soon we are going back to the GOLDEN ISLES:

An Introspective look at Creative approaches to our Photography
as we relax and explore some HIDDEN VIEWS of COASTAL GEORGIA

 

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03/31/16

An Auditory Photograph

Just as a visual image can record a time and place, a recording can create an auditory photograph, and I find that the ear as well as the eye can take us back in memory to that moment.

An Auditory Photograph Charleston Clockface Robin Davis Photography Inc The Third Eye Photo Workshop Charleston SC

Ticking away the Centuries…

One of my favorite spots to stand is in the house of friends at the Heart of Charleston’s French Quarter at exactly 12:00 noon. That is when the very air of this 1700’s home hums softly with the ticking and whirling of clock gears as the chimes begin.

The sound brings back the mood and beauty of the visual surroundings.

Listen here to the Noontime Charleston Chimes


“The grandfather clocks are precisely wound and surrounded by the fainter neighboring church tower bells in echo, they take turns sounding off. Some are closer and some more distant, but they all stand like soldiers aligned in timed order, one by one, each speaking in their own voice of timber and texture.”

Robin Davis

Our Charleston Photography Workshop will be June 21-24, 2016

http://www.thethirdeyephoto.com/charms-of-charleston/

all images and content ©2015 Robin Davis

01/17/16

On a Walk with Anna Maria

Cortona Center of Photography Italy Tuscany Photo Workshop, Cortona Friends

 

My mind has returned again and again to this particular day… and this is what keeps nagging at my brain. For the entire time on our walk, we were surrounded by beautiful roiling rain clouds in every shade of grey, with dark and purplish bottoms, heavy laden and pouring across the Tuscan countryside. We could see them encircled all around us. Yet on the walk, we did not get more than an occasional light feeling of mist. I kept waiting for us to get hit with the downpours we were seeing from our ever rising and expanding vantage point as we got higher and higher up the mountain road, and farther away from the shelter of the church below where we had parked.

 

Cortona Center of Photography Italy Tuscany photo workshop, a walk to the top mysterious view of church santuary.

 

At the top, I kept suggesting that we wait and try to find some cover before we headed down into it, but the air felt electric and we kept on. Above is a view up to the Sanctuary at the top – with a purplish sky vibrating against the shadowed mossy greens and grey serene stone that has an otherworldish effect.

 

Cortona Center of Photography Italy Tuscany Photo Workshop, walk in the countryside, two white horses in a field

 

We continued to find some more photographs on the way back down as well and it was not until we approached the car that the raindrops started to fall. As we quickly hopped in the bottom fell out. We were all laughing hysterically as the water hit the windshield with a force like a fireman’s hose and it was then that I realized we had been in some type of protective bubble the entire way!

 

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Maybe it was our collective happy energy, but I suspect that it was one of these three that held the power… Who do you vote for??!

 

 

 

All of the images in this post were taken on our walk.

For more Italy Photography Workshop info go to www.cortonacenter.com

 

All of the text and images © 2015 Robin Davis, all rights reserved.