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Do You Want To Know If Your Photos Are Good Do This

No matter how much you have put in making your photos, maybe you have spent all the rent money or you borrowed from your wife’s savings all to buy that very expensive camera you have always dreamed off, and you take the photos and they look just like the ones you took with your phone, only a…

Is That All There Is?

I got frustrated with regular photography, you know the photography of just clicking away and that’s it, i did try to see if following the rules they talk so much about would do the trick and they did for a while but then i got tired of that also, and i asked myself “It’s that…

The Scene Is Priority

Some people think that if you apply the correct lighting and the correct photographic rules that no matter what you photograph your pictures will be good, after all, you followed all the rules in the book, right? Wrong.

A New Perspective On Photography

Our brain deals with concepts of things, we all translate a concept into something we understand, but we live in a world of concepts. According to the dictionary concept is “An abstract idea; a general notion“ If i say “Car” you will in your mind see a car because the concept of a car is already in…

What Is Right And What Is Wrong In Photography

Some people say that you should leave the photos as they come out of the camera, no post software no alterations of any kind, well maybe just a little contrast and that’s it, and why is this i ask?, well because they say so and that’s it, most of the time it’s because somebody says that that…

We All Live In A Yellow Submarine

It seems that musicians do not have the problems that photographers have, and what problem am i talking about? well, the problem that we are afraid to be different, because if you are different then you will be thrown out of the community of the well behaved and tradition keepers, and once you are thrown out…

Perception And Photography

Perception is ; The ability to see, hear or become aware of something through the senses. How can you photograph something that you can not see? And i am not talking about our eyes, but about what you are aware. Example;

What Type Of Street Photography Are You In

The most common one is street photography aimed at art, and then there’s the not so common one aimed at the story and not at art. One is an artistic approach the other one is a Journalistic approach.

The Parts Off A Photograph

I decided to write about this because i see a lot of new photographers giving to much importance to secondary things and not enough importance to the main things in a photo. The parts of a photograph are prioritized according to a hierarchy of value. #1 is the most important and the rest go down…

Why Do People Get Discouraged About Photography

Quick and fast answer to “Why people get discouraged about photography” is “The photographer is a follower, he/she is not an independent thinker” In other words you look at others and compare yourself, you are trying to compete, or you are trying to copy what they have acomplished, there’s nothing wrong with copying but what’s…