The Photographer's Craft

Filters are used to create special effects or enhance parts of the image. Though filter effects can now be done digitally, filters are still available to use on camera lenses.

• Polarizing filters reduce reflections, which helps produce richer colours in the image.
• Neutral density filters absorb light so the photographer can use a slower shutter speed (which also may be used to blur movement). 

Natural light changes throughout the year – from cool blue tones in the winter to warm yellow tones in the summer. The light can change the viewer’s feeling of the texture of the photograph (soft vs. crisp, clear vs. blurred, etc.)

A well-crafted photograph can take us to “a different place” metaphorically by making us consider something commonplace as something extraordinary, simply by making us see it differently. One of the techniques photographers use to do this includes varying the perspective.

We can all see what the objects in the photographs are but perhaps we do not always see them in this way. Do you feel that ordinary things are transformed here? What does it make you feel?

These images were chosen by our exhibit team because they evoked feelings greater or different from what was expected when seeing the individual object. Do any of those create strong emotions in you?