JOHN SHAW PHOTOGRAPHY
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 | John has been a professional nature photographer since the early 1970s. His work has been published in many publications and books, including National Geographic, Nature's Best, National Wildlife, Audubon, Outdoor Photographer, and many others. In 1997 he received the first-ever Outstanding Photographer Award given by NANPA (North American Nature Photography Association). Nikon chose him as a featured Legend Behind the Lens in 2002, while Microsoft designated him an Icon of Imaging in 2006. He has been part of Epson's Stylus Pro fine art print makers group since 2001. John has published six books on nature photography, plus five eBooks on Photoshop and Lightroom. He has photographed on every continent, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from Provence to Patagonia. While he once used a variety of film cameras, he much prefers the advantages of digital capture. |
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Taken by John Shaw
Taken by John Shaw
Taken by John Shaw
Taken by John Shaw
John Shaw's images here are about colour, design and pattern. The one above shows the design of primarily 2 colours, pink and green. My image below is similar in this respect, with the 2 colours being green and blue and their design within the foliage. I have cropped this scene from its original wider view to home in the flower design more an how it goes off in an upper diagonal flow, as in John Shaw's. The structure underneath the base of the top flower looked crown like to me and also the way the flowers show their shape, determined its name.
Blue and green crowns
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I have researched John Shaw on line and, as outlined in a previous blog, from a book I have borrowed from the College library which has influenced my work:-
by John Shaw
Tree Tongue
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I took this image when I visited the flower garden at Calke. Tree Tongue shows different textures as does John Shaw's image below. I chose to frame mine with surrounding greenery and some small light coloured twigs to add more colour and interest. Where as John Shaw's different colours of his bark's texture acts as the interest. The composition shows texture, lines, pattern, form and colour tones. The diagonals, texure and colour tones were what attracted me to take the shot. My focus point was on the bark. I see a face on it with its tongue out, just right of centre.
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Again taken from overlooking someone's garden this is my maze of flowers to connect to John Shaw's above: A composition depicting a mass of coloured, small type, flowers set amongst green depths. I like the depth effect of mine and the way I managed to get some dreamy effect within those depths by my close range and wide aperture. I love the complementary colours.
by John Shaw
John Shaw's leaf stands out because of its colour and size in relation to the others in his scene. I chose my main leaf (taken at Calke) for its colour and back lighting to show out against it surrounds, but my scene is too chaotic. I used an aperture to blur the background in an attempt to emphasis the main subject, which was my focal point. I did not use the rule of thirds as in his image because I wanted the lead in line to be the prickly stem coming in from the bottom right foreground. I liked the way the shadow fell on my main leaf but the scene is too busy to be of any effect so I will try cropping in:-
This is better but it is still a busy scene with too much going on and other items are distracting the eye. All I really like here is the light, colours and shadow design but it's not enough. John Shaw's images show simplicity and therefore are more effective. He includes the stalks similarly as lead in lines (bottom 2 images) but his are by far, better compositions. Next time I would look for a more solitary leaf with a better background.
I get this book last year from library great stuff and nice tips inside...
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