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Find out the background...

...to all the photographs on eyeswitching.com. Part of the reason for creating this website is to share the techniques behind all the photographs featured in the Gallery sections.

So if you want to read the background to any of the images featured in the main galleries just click on the "Image Background Info" box on the bottom right-hand-side of each photograph.

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This is an image taken from the Langholm Common Riding in Southern Scotland.

...to the right is how it appears on this website when you click on the thumbnail image on the Custom Gallery.

In the table below the image is a summary of information including location and date, camera, lens and basic exposure details.

And on the lower right-hand-side is a button that will open a new page with more detailed background and technical information about the subject and how the image was taken.

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The sort of information typically included here includes my motivation for taking the photograph, noteworthy aspects of the composition and any specific technique used as well as a comparison with similar images taken at the time. There's also some background to the subject to put what's going on in context.

 

If you're still interested in finding out more, there are similar boxes on the lower left of each image that link to extended galleries of some of the subjects as well as the occasional enlarged version if there's fine detail to appreciate.

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Extended Gallery

In addition to the background information provided on each photograph please have a look at my articles that mainly deal with the technical aspects of the equipment I use.

You'll also soon be able to read about specific techniques that I use for my documentary work, as I'm in the process of putting together a number of practical guides to techniques that particularly aid documentary style photography. Look out for these during 2008.

 

And of course...if you have any specific question about any of the images featured on eyeswitching.com feel free to contact me at:

eyeswitching@googlemail.com

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