The Perceptive Photographer

I often hear people talk about or suggest the proper settings for your camera to make good photographs. You might also find people who are suggesting the proper methods to edit your photographs for maximum impact. In this week's podcast, we take a look at that approach and discuss how more times than not, taking or editing a good photograph requires you to think more about your approach to the photograph than the settings in the camera or software.

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Often timed I find myself in a rush to do something. When that happens not much good comes from it. In this week's podcast, I talk about how rushing can often lead to less than ideal results.

As always, I hope you and yours are safe, and please remember to keep safe and wear your mask.

We all have places we work on editing our photographs. It might be a dedicated studio or room in the house, and for others, it might be a shared desk in the kitchen. In this week's podcast, I talk about how setting up your space to work is similar to how you might approach working on a photograph behind the camera. I also talk about how getting a space set up to reflect your personality can make all the difference in editing. So no matter how big or small, private or shared, your space is making it about your photography will be a good thing.

In this week's podcast, I talk about how the work we make is all about the small details and impacts. Like ripples in a pond you never know how big of impact something you do might be but obsessing about how big the impact is or should be can lead to a dark creative place. Much of the work we do in art isn't about major groundshaking events, it is in the smallest moments.

In this week's podcast, we take a look at the question of does our style change when we change what we photograph or is our style consistent. I was asked recently if our style changes all the time based on what we photograph. They gave the example of black and white landscapes verse color fashion photography each being of interest but having a completely different look and approach. I thought it was a great question to tackle this week.

There are times that everyone faces in their photography when you feel like things are going nowhere. Maybe you are spending more money The longer we spend on photography, the less time and energy we have to do photography. This week we take a look at how the work can get in the way of the work.

In this week's podcast, I take a quick look at the notion of accuracy in a photograph. Each photograph has a given set of attributes that we respond to when we look at the image. In critiquing work, there is often a sense of correctness to those decisions behind the camera. In the discussion this week, I challenge the idea that there is one accurate way to create and respond to the photograph and offer suggestions on how to approach our response to images.

In this week's podcast, we talk about the duality of many of the concepts and ideas that we might face when making photographs. We look at how ideas can be both easy and hard or how expectations can be both meet and disappointing. As we face this dual nature of many aspects in our photography, how to ultimately choose to use that duality to make more interesting photographs is a question I think we all must face.

This week's podcast takes a look at how we learn things and the language we use to describe ourselves when we don't know something and the impact of making more positive statements.

In this week's podcast, we talk about the way to tell a better story in your photographs and how to approach storytelling in your images.