SEEING
Don’t look. See.
So you’ve got a handle on the technical stuff. You’ve got a good idea about composition. Light and lenses too. So how do you use all that to take great pictures?
Well, this is where you go out and practise. Give it a go yourself. Take pictures. Embrace the mistakes and try again. But mastering techniques alone will only get you so far.
If you want to take great pictures, ones that really stand out from the crowd, you need to stop looking and start seeing.
Seeing is how Chris Levine captured this portrait of Queen Elizabeth. Originally commissioned to create a three-dimensional, holographic image using state-of-theart technology, Levine saw something unexpected when the Queen rested her eyes between set-ups. For a brief ...
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