Ellen McLaren was very generous to join us at Guelph Youth Music Centre to be a guest speaker on teaching us a better understanding on our photography unit and the functions of a camera. Ellen is currently a university student studying photography at Ryerson University (Toronto). She first started off by showing us her camera which was a Nikon camera and going through all the different settings and showing us what each of our cameras could do by setting it to different effects. She really focused on "lighting", "smoke" and "fading effects" because that's what she most enjoys doing. She taught us that if you focus on one thing in your picture and just before you take a picture of it you move your camera focus it will allow that object to be focused and the back round to be faded making the image before your main focus, which I did in many of my photographs. By adding more light to a subject, especially at night, it will give a photo an overall brightness rather than a grainy effect. Getting different angles on your pictures gives a different perspective of what the image can look like. Bending down to take a photo can make a shot look entirely different, just as tilting the camera slightly will make the subject appear in a different view.
To be a successful photographer takes a great deal of imagination and creativity. It involves seeing things differently than the normal tourist snaping away on a street.
To be a successful photographer takes a great deal of imagination and creativity. It involves seeing things differently than the normal tourist snaping away on a street.
Contact Information
Website: http://www.elliemclaren.com/urban.html
Cell Phone: (647) 822 6240
Website: http://www.elliemclaren.com/urban.html
Cell Phone: (647) 822 6240