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Try to Engage Emotionally with Your Subject or Subject Matter

Try to Engage Emotionally with Your Subject or Subject Matter

If you are shooting people and simply take snaps of them representing nothing in particular all you are doing is creating a document.

You might as well just write a note to yourself that "George was in the living room."

Take a moment to identify your feelings towards the subject or observe the subject’s feelings towards themselves, their environment or others around them.

In other words look at what you are seeing and "see" something, something worth communicating through the final image.

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Try to Engage Emotionally with Your Subject or Subject Matter Posted: 10 Jun 2011 12:36 AM PDT If you are shooting people and simply take snaps of them representing nothing in particular all you are doing is creating a document. You might as well just write a note to yourself that "George was in the living room." Take a moment to identify your feelings towards the subject or observe the subject’s feelings towards themselves, their environment or others around them. In other words look at what you are seeing and "see" something, something worth communicating through the final image.

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Start your photographic adventures by shooting people you are familiar with, places you know well and things you are passionate about.

Persist with this process until your work begins the reflect your natural affinity for the people and things you love.

A pro can literally make an image of paint drying seem appealing... but that's because they are pro's!

Eventually you will become more technically and artistically proficient at representing things you like in way that makes them interesting to others.

The final step is bringing it all together so that you can take a shot of something you are not that interested in personally BUT... can make it interesting to others.