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Hi to you if you have just arrived at PhotoTalk: welcome back if you have been here for a chat before now! PhotoTalk is for talking about photography, photographs, photographers, and anything related to photography with one previso: I'll not get into talking about equipment unless it is in relation to practical technique. PhotoTalk will focus (pun intended) on the various visual, perceptual, and conceptual aspects of images and also on how the image was produced. Please feel free to share your comments about the images and the text that goes with them. Oh, BTW, I'll occasionally pop a question into the mix for you to consider as a bit of fun! Come and enjoy yourself!

Thursday, 3 January 2008

Scale and Space


Scale is used to help define the size relationships between the elements of an image. A sense of scale goes a long way to adding to the feeling of space in a scene. In this beach scene, clearly a semi-abstract design, the inclusion of the single human figure walking across the sand allows you to immediately appreciate the amount of space included in the image. Without this point of reference it would be very difficult to perceive just how much of the beach had been used to form this design oriented image.
Q: Why is the water so blue?

PhotoTalk Gallery Now Open!

OK, here we go! Let's enter into a virtual photo gallery, that's us in the gallery now, and chew the fat about photography. Mind you, try not to stick ice-cream covered fingers all over the image like this little lady is doing!

Happy New year

Well, here we go with 2008 and I hope it's a good one for everyone. A new year, a new blog, a fresh outlook!

Cheers