Month: March 2019

CREATING A SWIPE FILE

What’s a swipe file? Sounds like a file you might use to clean your computer or maybe one you can use to steal secrets from other people’s computers. No, it’s simpler than that. It’s a physical file (like the kind you put into a file cabinet) or a folder on your computer. According to Wikipedia …

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PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNEXPECTED

Surprise piques attention. When there is something out of the ordinary in our environment, we need to notice. It might be danger or food. Something bad or something good. Living beings respond to stimulus. Surprise stimulates so it’s natural that something surprising, something unexpected often makes a great photo. It grabs our attention and will …

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BACKUP

Chances are you’ve been lectured about backing up or burned by not doing it. (One time I backed up into a garage door.) Backing up files can certainly be a life saver sometimes but it does create a lot of digital clutter. It’s easy to take a lot of photos and so we do. Then …

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PHOTO-THERAPY

Whatever makes you feel better is therapy. Hyrdo therapy, hyno-therapy, hug-therapy, hound-therapy. It’s all good. Photo-therapy will always do you wonders. It doesn’t take much, just a point and shoot, but for a moment you are in the moment. Photography is here and now. You look, you see, you click the shutter. When you are …

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REACH

Are you reaching? For what? Going for the shot, a shot, any shot is a reach. How far you reach is partly up to you and partly up to the shot you are going for. There is nothing wrong going for a safe shot. In fact you should. Get the safe shot in the can …

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BE SHOWN

Image makers make images to show others. “Here, look at what I made.” It’s a worthy endeavor. Life is about creating. We can also be shown. We can even take it a step further and whenever possible go look. People don’t always have to come to us, we can go to them. Being shown also …

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QUESTIONS

Do your photos create questions? In some cases this stimulates interest and in other cases is a put-off. When done well, a good photo will prompt the viewer to wonder what’s going on or what exactly are they seeing. What is that person doing? What is that thing? But the brain is lazy. It will …

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MAKING YOUR VIEWERS WORK

We have two general thinking systems, analytical and intuitive. The intuitive mind goes with the flow. It sees life and puts the pieces together based on all of it’s observations, experiences and knowledge acquired over a life time along with some built-in DNA intelligence. The analytical system has to stop and figure things out. It …

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PHOTOGRAPHY AS EXERCISE

If you’ve ever shot an event or spent a day running around with a camera, some lenses, a tripod and other stuff you know that photography can be great exercise. You feel it in your back and your legs. That’s just the physical part. Photography also exercises your brain. The brain is like furnace, burning …

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