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March 5th, 2024
February 27th, 2024
“When words become unclear, I shall focus on photographs,” Ansel Adams once said.
A photograph is, indeed, more than “a thousand words,” and a powerful, visual means through which to capture feelings, thoughts, perspectives, opinions, mood, and so on.
Read more at https://alinaoswald.com/2024/02/27/more-than-words/
February 20th, 2024
Read more at https://alinaoswald.com/2024/02/20/protest-art-revisited/
February 14th, 2024
February 7th, 2024
On visual storytelling: the rules of image composition
Deadlines: you can’t live with them, you can’t live without them. …Or so the saying goes. The same is true when it comes to rules. And yet, deadlines and rules are intrinsic parts of our professional and personal lives.
Photography projects have deadlines. Photography has its own rules.
For example, the rules of image composition help us tell a visual story in the most powerful way possible. They are there not to confine us, but to be considered, and sometimes, even to be broken, in a creative way, that is.
Read more at https://alinaoswald.com/2024/02/06/back-to-the-basics-rules-of-image-composition/
January 31st, 2024
Inspiring quotes on photography by famous photographers: Ansel Adams
January 24th, 2024
January 17th, 2024
January 15th, 2024
Have you ever wondered how an image comes to be? Listen to award-winning, legally blind photographer, Kurt Weston, talk about the making of some of his most iconic images in Inner Vision, a Lenscratch interview.
Listen and read more here: http://lenscratch.com/2023/12/inner-vision-photography-by-blind-artists-kurt-weston/
January 15th, 2024
It’s a new year, and here, in the New York City area, Times Square is considered, by many, “the” place to be and experience the turn of the year.
And so today, I’d like to share with you a Times Square composite created over the years, from images captured at the NYC Pride March, fireworks celebrations, and, of course, Times Square, itself.
The image has been featured in several photography shows in the area, including the (then) annual Fresh Fruit art festivals at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.
Read more here: https://alinaoswald.com/2024/01/02/a-times-square-composite/