Category: Portfolio
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The Ultimate Project 52 (P52) Photography Theme List
I don’t usually embark upon specific photography projects. Well, that’s perhaps not true, I do sometimes start them, but it’s rare that I finish them. I’ve started a P365 more times than I can count, but only finished one. I started a monthly self portrait project in January of this year, that morphed into a…
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The Importance of Voice
What caused to you first pick up your camera? What inspires you to keep picking it up? It will be different for everyone, and there is no right answer. I won’t say that I was the girl who always had a camera in her hand, but I do know that I took a lot of…
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Top five reasons your photos are blurry
One thing newer photographers seem to have the hardest time with is nailing focus. I love purposely out of focus images, but there is nothing worse than thinking you’ve nailed focus, only to realize too late that many or all are blurry. When I first got back into film photography in the summer of 2021,…
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Basics of Manual Exposure
Want to know the secret between a ho-hum, average image, and a stop you you in your tracks, beautiful image? Well, truth be told, there’s no one real secret, but a great way to set your images apart is to shoot in manual exposure mode. Once you start shooting in manual mode, you take control…
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Out of focus images
One of my favorite creative techniques is to shoot out of focus images. No really! I think there is something so lovely and evocative about an image that is deliberately defocused. To be clear, I’m not talking about an image with missed focus. That is something very different. Focus tells your viewer were to look,…
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Why your next photo should come from a photo walk
How many times have you read a photo tutorial or class and one of the challenges is to “go on a photo walk”? I know I personally have read this many times, and yes, it is actually one of the exercises in my own macro class. While it seems over done, it is actually a…
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Storytelling in a Portfolio Set
This post I thought we could chat about flow a little bit in your sets. What makes good flow? We talk a lot about how a set should tell a story. What kinds of ways can you think of to order your set? My big tip to you is that when you sit down and…
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What makes a good portfolio image or set?
I do a lot of set reviews for people, and I often see similar issues across portfolios that still need a bit of finessing. Here are some of the biggest issues I see. My comments below will be tailored mostly to Hello Storyteller, but they work for almost any portfolio you might be working on.…
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Portfolio Consistency
I think that prepping for a portfolio is one of the best things you can do to grow as an artist. It forces you to look at your work objectively, removing the emotional bias you might have for any given photo. It is also one of the hardest things you will do as an artist.
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