Specializing on a particular subject in photography has tremendous benefits in terms development of skills and personal branding. However, it is also important to regularly shoot new subjects. The insight from trying new things can enhance the main area of activity.
For me personally, shooting sports, which I started doing a few years ago, was a drastic departure from landscape and stock travel photography that I was doing up to that point. Skills that I acquired by shooting action enabled me to change my approach to travel photography – instead of focussing exclusively on locations, I began actively including people in the photos. In fact, this changed my view of travel itself. After all, human interactions, including visual communication through photographs, are the fundamental basis of our daily activity. Changing the environment in which these interactions occur, which is the essence of travel, add different flavour to human relationships. I believe that capturing this local flavour of the human element is key for adding emotion content to the photos.
From a purely technical standpoint, learning to compose the image quickly and to be decisive in taking the shot, which are important skills for a sports photographer, is very useful for taking portraits of children.
In my personal projects, I aim to add variety to the shots through consciously pushing my comfort limits by using new techniques (both during the shoot and in post-processing) and exploring new subjects.
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, and anthropologist, who addressed this question more that fifty years ago. I am glad that my daughter is not attached to the idea of the “real” Santa Claus, but is really enjoying him as an element of the Holiday.
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. Here is the most important adjustment that I had to make in order to achieve sharp focus since I started using these lenses, which produce ultra-shallow depth of field: it is not possible to pre-focus by half-pressing the shutter button and then re-composing the frame – the resulting slight change in the tilt of the camera results in an out-of-focus image. Instead, I place an autofocus point directly on the subject’s eye (the one closets to the camera, to be exact), take a shot and then adjust composition in post-processing by 
” that delaying gratification is an important skill for children to learn. As any skill, it requires practice, and the initial attempts are not always successful.
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resonates with the modern challenges of work-life balance. On one hand, it is comforting to know that we are not the first to come across these issues, but on the other hand, the fact that two millennia later we are still searching for a solution tells us that, most likely, there is no magic formula that works universally for everyone.
, which emerged in Paris at the end of the 19th century as a reference to urban exploring through strolling and observing the city life, is based on the same principle. Modern street photography is the extension of this urban observing. Having no particular goal for the stroll and the photo shoot enables one to be present and responsive to the experience of the city life. This exploration mode is similar, in some respect, to the “beginner’s mind”, a state that is tremendously conductive to personal development in zen buddhism and Eastern martial arts, such as
