Vol. 6, No. 12 — June 14, 2019
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When to Add Prose to Your Images
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Text and images are a natural pairing. They go together like birds of a feather, you could say! But truthfully, both are an art form, and both are rich and descriptive. What better way to further enhance our photographs than with a meaningful bit of prose? Of course, not all images need some sort of text to accompany them, but for some, it could prove helpful. And some photographers may even find it enjoyable to design
images around text, or at least, to design images with the intent of writing a little something about them later on.
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The thing to remember about combining the written word with the photograph, however, is that there is a wrong way to go about it! So let me explain what you should avoid, and then I’ll list a few ways that you can take your images to the next level with accompanying prose!
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Practice Using the Artistic Study
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Photography projects are how we perfect our art. I think that most of us have embarked on some kind of project, over the years. Maybe it’s a “Project 365,” wherein we attempt to take one photograph each day, or maybe the projects you’ve done are weekly or monthly. For many of us, our photography projects focus on storytelling or on a theme of some kind. The point is, photography projects are valuable — and they help build up
our libraries of digital negatives, which means that when we aren’t taking photographs, we nearly always have image files that we can be processing.
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There’s one other type of project that I’d like to recommend, one that is a great way for photographers of any level to really dig deep on a particular subject or theme. This project would be the artistic study...
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A Brief History of Neon Lighting
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I recently had the opportunity to visit the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati — a fascinating experience, let me tell you. I spent a good amount of time taking photographs and I’d like to share with you everything that I learned. First, however, because these signs are so interesting, and because there is a lot of history behind them, I’d like to share that history with you. Perhaps this will help you with inspiration
should you ever find yourself photographing neon signs...
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Planning Photos to Suit Your Market
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The act of artistic creation is a personal thing. Other people—unless they happen to be our subjects—don’t often enter into the equation. All of the steps necessary to produce a photographic print, everything from the hours spent imagining shots and planning shoots, to the actual day of the shoot, and the post-processing that comes afterward are all things that we do on our own, for the most part. And because of this, it’s
easy to get wrapped up in the imagery and sort of forget other people entirely.
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But there comes a time when we have to stop and remember others. The simple truth is, all those other people? They’re our audience, our potential clients, and the people we may be selling prints to in the future. So if you plan to market your photography, it’s not enough to simply create images that you enjoy. You’ll also need to take your future audience into consideration so that you’re producing something that they have a reasonable chance of enjoying,
too.
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Subject material is only a small part of this formula. For the most part, whatever you photograph, as long as it’s photographed well, there will be an audience out there for those particular subjects. When it comes to making images ready for consumption by others, the larger part of the equation is actually the way you present those photographs. Let me show you what I mean...
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