Dynamic Photography for Inspirational Quotes
To create the photographs in the Edgar Cayce 2009 Calendar, I needed to use many photography techniques because I wanted to, as beautifully as possible, illustrate the inspirational quotes from America’s great psychic Edgar Cayce.
When I went to photography school, we were taught to “bracket the exposure,” meaning that we should vary the light intensity of the photograph from darker to lighter.
Bracketing the exposure is relatively easy with a film camera. You only have to change the exposure or the f-stop. With digital photography, it requires fooling the automatic exposure meter.
To do that, just center the screen of your digital camera on a dark area of the scene you are photographing to make a light photograph. For a dark photograph, center the screen of your digital camera on a light part of the scene you are photographing.
For example, to create the dynamic intense colors in the sunrise photograph used to illustrate the month of January in the 2009 Edgar Cayce Calendar, I centered the camera viewing screen on the rising sun. This made the photograph darker. Many other photographs I took that morning looked lighter because I centered the camera viewing screen on the dark trees.
Here’s the lovely inspirational quotation from Edgar Cayce that goes with that lovely photograph:
“For you may breathe it [nature] into thine own soul, as you would a sunset or a morning sun rising. And see that sometimes – it’s as pretty as the sunset!” Edgar Cayce Reading 3374-1*
Copyright (c) 2008 Carol Chapman All Rights Reserved
* Quote: Edgar Cayce Readings (c) 1971, 1993-2008 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation All Rights Reserved
