May 28th, 2012
Door to CreativityCreativity has many dimensions and we all can be more creative. Creativity force which exists in each human being needs to be rediscovered. We all can reconnect to our creative self. Creativity is in all of us however it is what you do with it that counts. It is possible to open ourselves up to greater and greater creativity.When we really love ourselves, everything flows in our life. Treat yourself well. When your inner self is happy, it also appears outside. In fact there is no here and there. that sort of separation is just an illusion.
One of the best ways of treating yourself well is taking regular breaks during the day and spending time in nature really helps. Love what you do. If you don’t, find it.
Life’s just too short to be doing work that destroys your essence. Find work you love and get busy changing your world with it. I really mean this. I was a very successful debt consultant, having worked in the industry for 7 years and won several awards including a nomination for ” The Debt Consultant” of the year in London however when I rediscovered my creative side and fell in love with painting, I knew I could not do anything else any more. We are encouraged to believe that our life should somehow fulfil the expectations of others. I believe our one and only responsibility is to listen to our inner self. Your heart screams out the purpose of your life…Don’t let the voice of our original self to be overwhelmed by the voices of other people’s expectations. When we find what we are really meant to do, we really want to do it. That is the clue!
I would like you to name your dream and perhaps write it down. I believe in the benefit of writing dreams down. Not just writing them but feeling them. Once you write them down have a think about what action you can take to move closer to your dream. Make an action plan and choose an action. Reading this article and making a list of your dreams is an action! We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living.
I remember vividly taking some time off in magical Olympos, South of Turkey and making my 3 months, 1 year and 5 years dream list. One of the dreams was an opportunity to share my creativity with less fortunate kids and shortly after that trip, I was invited to Istanbul to Gunay Life Academy, Dragos to do a workshop with children who live in an orphanage. It was an amazing experience to spend time with them and share the beauty of Aboriginal art with them.
Creativity flourishes and groves among friends. I remember my very first painting and I am most grateful for the amazing feedback I got from my family and friends.
I am an artist and a talented artist and I accept creativity as a blessing. I would like my creativity to give people peace, love and hope. I am happy to share my creativity openly. You too can open the door to creativity!
Fulya Simavi
www.fulyasimavi.com
Blue Door by fulya
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May 23rd, 2012
If you’re wondering if it is worth spending the money then we say “do it!”
You won’t find a better photographer than Allen-Scott Redgrave!
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April 27th, 2012
We’re very lucky to have beautiful scenery in the UK, but taking great landscape shots that capture the beauty of a location isn’t often easy. As with most things in life, practice makes perfect.
I would say early mornings and late evenings are the best times for shooting landscapes.
Wide angle lenses are commonly used for landscapes because they will allow you to include more in the frame. To include as much as the scenery possible, use a long depth of field. Using a more closed aperture makes the depth of field longer. This allows for more things to be in focus. While blurring out the background is sometimes preferred, with landscape photos, we often want to have many elements in focus.
Whenever possible, place something of interest in the foreground of the shot to create a sense of depth. Direction of light is also important, shooting distant views can look very flat and uninspiring with the light behind you. Clear conditions can allow impressive detailed views over many miles. A dark and moody landscape can often benefit from being turned into black & white. Although a crystal-clear blue sky looks fantastic, clouds add interest to skies, and are worth looking out for. You can use circular polariser to deepen blue skies, make fluffy white clouds really stand out and to reduce unwanted reflections on water and glass surfaces.
Also ensure that you set your white balance according to lighting conditions; if it’s lovely and bright like this shot, set it to Sunny, but if it’s dull and grey, setting your white balance to Shade or Cloudy
will help to warm things up a bit.
As you discover new ways to enhance your images a whole new world opens up. You will be able to look at a scene in a different way completely.
Start today and have fun with landscape photography!
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April 18th, 2012
It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are. – Paul Caponigro
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April 18th, 2012
Telling Your Story
Photographs are a form of visual communication. We want our photographs to communicate to the viewer. Everyone expresses himself or herself differently. Photography is one way of expression.
A picture is worth a thousand words – or so the saying goes.
Photographic story telling takes planning and some type of structure. Before you start photographing your story consider what type of shots you might need to tell it. Your story can be a one image story or a longer one. It can be on any topic you’d like.
Thinking Ahead
What is it you want to say with your camera? Try to think about this BEFORE you go on location. There are lots of things to consider when you want to tell a story with your camera, but the first thing is to decide what your goal is and what message you would like to send.
A good story has characters in action with a beginning, middle, and an ending. Detail shots are photos that focus on a very specific detail that help to tell the story. Fillers are the other photos that contribute to telling the story, backgrounds can add a sense of place to your image which is how they enhance your photographic story telling. Keep standards of pictorial beauty, but pack as many story telling elements in one photograph as possible to develop an action.
The more time you spend with your subject, the more opportunities you have to better tell their story and the more possibilities you have to shoot.
Strong storytelling is all about preparation, perspiration, and getting to the essence of your subject. The creativity of building up a story in a photograph can be a difficult task but with practice and keeping the above specific structures in mind, you will be able to generate more interesting photos that will be appreciated by the viewers.
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March 27th, 2012
Henri Cartier- Bresson, said: ‘Taking photographs…It’s a way of shouting or freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one’s originality. It is a way of life”
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March 26th, 2012
“I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.”
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March 23rd, 2012
Reflecting on the Image within is a beautiful way to experiment with creative photography. Take your camera and look into the puddles you pass to discover interesting reflections. Photographing a reflection can make something ordinary, very interesting. Look for reflections all around you. They are everywhere. When you look deeply at something, it becomes part of you.
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March 23rd, 2012
“ Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. ” – Matt Hardy
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March 22nd, 2012
“ I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good. ”
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