The Sony World Photography Awards (SWPA) is the most prestigious photo contest in the world with the largest range of categories and is open to photographers of all levels. The SWPA provides three juries for the award of the three main categories: the professional, the amateur and the Student Focus section.
For the first time in 2011 London hosted the final stage of the competition, after the Festival has gone through 3 major cities around the world: San Francisco, Mexico City and Shanghai. ...

A few days ago died at the ripe age of 84 years, Miroslav Tichy, a photographer who in the years of communist rule in Czechoslovakia began his career autoproducendosi cameras with recycled materials like boxes of shoes, slow recovery, rolls of toilet paper and pieces of Plexiglas.
Miroslav Tichy's life not much is known but in recent years has been a huge success: his gruff character who has brought the total isolation, anti-social life ...

Hi friends, I would like to open a discussion on the composition photo. Sometimes it's easy to say whether or not a photo has a good composition, other times it is very difficult.
There are many "rules" to keep in mind when composing a shot - white balance , Rules of thirds, to avoid overlaps, find the right shot, using a simple style, perspective, etc.. Develop an intuitive eye for composition requires a lot of time and a lot of practice.

The Splash Photography is a wonderful art form that requires certain choices of camera equipment and exceptional timing and is to photograph the "splash" created by objects falling in water or liquids in general, without modifying the nature and color.
The masters of this art rich photography studios often have very complex equipment, and laser sensors to locate the right time to capture these wonderful figures of water.
Following is a brief video that demonstrates how to capture the ...

Bring photography to a higher level of professionalism means taking into account some basic elements: the photograph is a human ability (and therefore you can learn and improve) that, if supported by considerations of an aesthetic level, rises to become "art" .
In the last post we gave a brief account of what was the symmetry of the purely scientific point of view. Symmetry is a key element of nature that surrounds us, man and his creations. The composition ...