lauriek

I get asked a lot of questions about photography and always endeavour to help up and coming photographers as much as possible, hence I thought I'd post my first news article. I've been doing photography professionally for 25 years and I still feel I have so much to learn, but by looking back at my earlier work I can also see how much I've improved. The 1st rule is that all rules are made to be broken, but sticking to a few tried & true methods will definately help in the beginning. Composition - putting your subjuct in the middle of the frame usually looks plain boring. The rule of thirds is a method where you divide the frame into thirds

How would you feel if someone broke into your house, cut your limbs off with machettes and left you to die. This is what happens daily to thousands of sharks around the world mostly by Asian fisherman. Because sharks don't fit into the "cuddly" category most people don't give a damn, they tend to think its great because another maneater has been removed from the water. Live sharks are hauled from the water, their fins are lopped off by machettes, and the live animal is thrown back in the water. Unfortunately a shark doesn't have a big enough blood supply to actually die from these wounds, instead it sinks to the bottom, unable to swim and slo

I was recently intervieved about my photography by ~EzzyGezzy (https://www.deviantart.com/ezzygezzy) The interview is posted at http://news.deviantart.com/article/58025/