Photo by Gavin Gough
Create the perfect portraits, especially during a journey, not a simple thing. First you have to remember that the most important thing is not the place or the photograph, but the empathy that you can reach the person being photographed.
The technical elements, the field, the focal length optics, are ingredients that without the involvement of staff can not make memorable portraits. What makes a portrait interesting is something very subtle ...

If the person we want to photograph is an expanse of hills and an impressive mountain range, we must not forget to create a composition of three visual elements that make a perfect landscape: the first floor, the middle field and the background.
The first floor plays an important role in that, in a static landscape monotonous and almost manages to grab attention and make the composition interesting.
The secret of a good close-up
Simplicity is definitely the key ingredient that creates a ...

After yet another provocation by Oliviero Toscani is dedicated to the countless victims of anorexia and after the outrageous and provocative image of the model Isabella Choir completely naked and exposed to the judgment of all (defined by the photographer himself "a sort of Munch's Scream" against disease), Toscani is seen engaged in the campaign against plastic surgery.
The choice of Tuscany is to focus the lens on the use of excessive cosmetic surgery, its mystification and too easily accessible. Now in showbiz ...

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 ...