Articles on composition and seeing

4C’s Slide Presentation

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:56:40 -0700

These are the slides I used at the Sept. 25, 2010 4C's Presentation PDF.pdf
The handout notes 4C's handout PDF.pdf

Vistas & Vineyards Presentations

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 13:08:35 -0700

As part of our Vistas & Vineyards plein aire paint outs, we have lessons the first Wednesday of the month. The following articles are the ones I prepared for the lesson on taking source photographs.pdf and photographing artwork V&V.pdf. Click on these two underlined items to get to the articles. (unfortunately, it may be raining real hard, in which case we will cancel the paint out ... rain water and watercolors don’t seem to work too well together. Oh well, at least we could take source photographs!)

Seeing and Composition

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:39:43 -0700

I will be presenting a two hour program on Seeing and Composition - Mother Nature Does Not Make it Easy at the 4C’s Photographic convention September 25, 2010 in Florence, Oregon. The following is a prospectus on what I will be talking about.

This presentation will help in working your way through the jumble of stuff we see through the camera lens and how to capture that compositionally cool shot. A set of guidelines, templates and information will be creatively presented to help with developing a photographic imaginative “eye” and capability to “capture” that great photograph. This will be approached from an artistic aspect of photography and less on the technical aspect. Emphasis will be placed upon the concept of always being in development with regards to our photography.

The session will explore:
• Seeing and connecting with the location to capture the photograph
• Composition and how to resourcefully translate what the eye sees to what can be photographed.
• Ingenious uses of the Principles and Elements of artistic design
• Imaginative ideas to center your photography to the subject at hand

By the end of the session, participants will:
• Have some useful guidelines to use next time they bring a camera up to their eye.
• Have a list of source material and books for further development
• Have a handout of key points to take with them.

More on the convention can be found at the 4C’s web site

Finding Your Artistic Eye - Or How A Bulldozer Operator Can Influence Your Photography

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:02:40 -0700

I have a two hour presentation entitled “Finding Your Artistic Eye,or How a Bulldozer Operator can Influence Your Photography. The presentation offers a set of guidelines, templates and information to help with developing a photographic creative “eye” and capability to “capture” that great photograph. It is approached from an artistic aspect of photography and less on the technical aspect. Emphasis is placed upon the concept of always being in development in regards to our photography. Oh yes, we talk about bulldozers.

The session explores:
• Seeing, choosing and connecting with the location.
• Composition and how to translate what the eye sees to something that can be photographed
• Principles and Elements of design
• Good and bad examples of the above and how to critique a photograph

By the end of the session, participants will:
• Have some guidelines to use next time they bring a camera up to their eye.
• Understand my 7 C’s of photography
• Have a list of source material and books to help with the subject.
• Have a handout of key points to take with them.

Interested for having me talk with your group - contact me terry@terrytallis.com

Pots and Pans - a meaningful story

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:04:16 -0700

An accomplished photographer was invited over to a couples home for dinner and to share his photographs taken on a safari in Africa. He did have some wonderful photographs which he showed before dinner. After the show, the wife exclaimed,” Those were fantastic photos, you sure must have some expensive camera equipment.”

They then adjourned to a wonderful dinner prepared by the wife who was a very good cook. After the dinner, the photographer leaned back, wiped his hands and said, What a great meal, you must have some really expensive pots and pans.”

Look folks, it is not the cost of the equipment that makes most of the difference. It is the ability to see an image and then capture it.