Four Things Every Photographer Can Do To Improve Their Photography And They Are All Free!
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The old saying goes; “A picture is worth 1000 words.” If that’s true, what words are your picture saying?
And if you think of your picture as a “story,” something I strongly advocate regularly, it might help to PRE-construct the story and THEN get the picture.
Move along from one thing to the next, learning what you can. Don’t concentrate on what you DON’T know. Concentrate on what you DO know. If you look only at the negative – well that would be like the guy picking up coconuts spending his day counting how many he has left to pick up. It’s much more productive (and satisfying) to say “Wow – look how many coconuts (pearls of knowledge) I’ve gathered!”
I’ve got a new post over at Olympus.com called “Bird Photos on a Budget.” I spent a few days testing an entry-level, Micro Four Thirds system from Olympus just to see how well these lower-priced cameras can perform. The answer is – I was shocked. Read Bird Photography on a Budget at the Olympus Learning Center.
There are three big reasons I watermark my images.
The first is simple. In the event of infringement (i.e., someone commercially uses my photo without compensating me) I can use the watermark to prove that the infringement was knowingly done.
I found a new podcast player called Himalaya. It’s a clean, easy, effective way to find, organize and […]
Photographers need to stop obsessing over gear,
Do you want to be more creative as a photographer? Then you need to exercise your creative muscles. Just as many people go to the gym to strengthen their physical bodies, photographers can strengthen their creative mind, using techniques that cause them to look at old problems in new ways.
If you post a picture on social media, and it doesn’t conform to the traditional rules of art and composition, you can expect to be challenged by the Paul Blart Mall Cops of Art. They can be merciless. But I want to let you know a secret. These people don’t buy pictures. They don’t publish pictures. They just critique pictures. Publishers, editors and art buyers may not care about the rules – if you come up with something that is striking.
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