Keywords are descriptive word that are attached to photos in the photo’s metadata. They can be added in Photoshop, Bridge, Lightroom, Darktable and other photo processing programs. The intent is to make photos easy to find either on the internet or on your hard drive. By adding keywords such as “fruit” or “car” you can …
If you shoot for hire you are shooting for the viewer. Which viewer is another question. Is it those who hired you or their audience?
There are two ways to photograph people; when they know you are photographing them and when they don’t. Candid photos are the easiest. There is no immediate risk. You can sneak in your shot without having to engage the person. Shoot and run. Non-candid photos take more guts. You have to interact with the person …
For most of us the majority of our photos never make it to the print stage. We simply keep them electronically, which seems fine, especially with cloud storage. We might get prints made, eventually. When we had rolls of film developed and printed we often got more than we wanted. All of our rejects and …
Everything has a learning curve. Some are steeper than others and some take more effort to climb. Television doesn’t usually have much of a curve and even when you need to figure out a plot, it doesn’t usually take much of an effort to climb the curve. Reading can be either easy and fun, like …