Gestalt Theory

Gestalt theory is the psychology of visual communication, as you might have guessed it's a german word that loosely translates as "whole" and "form".
Gestalt is a way of designing things so that they have both unity of design while still having variety (much like the "style" people often speak of when describing a photographer). Gestalt is much more general than photography itself, but it's very applicable to photographic composition. 

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The problem with fast lenses

So you've gone and bought that lovely new f/1.4 or perhaps the f/1.2 (moneybags) and you're noticing that your images are not turning out quite as you expected, perhaps I can help explain why.

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Facebook & photos

Just a reminder as I'm sure you read the agreement before you signed up

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some recent model shoot images

Vivienne Edge - an absolute pleasure to work with.

(download)

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Sarah & Ian got married.....

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27th August 2010,

Wonderful day and a pleasure to work with.

Enjoy Australia.

Colin & Thomas

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recent strobist shoot

Bernie3

(for the geeks: 20 second rear curtain with off camera flash)
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gold in them there hills

Gold standard photograph in this months SWPP and BPPA image competition thomas_gaffney_landscape_August10_ireland
Another Gold winning SWPP image this month. (c) Digitalis 2010
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