Photography can be a really slow pursuit that takes serious commitment to progress in, often occurring in disjointed steps rather than steady, continuous growth. This excellent video features a photographer discussing some of those pivotal moments in his own growth, and they make great lessons for lots of us.
Coming to you from Nigel Danson, this great video features him discussing some of the "lightbulb" moments in his growth as a photographer. For me, one of the biggest such moments was when I stopped looking at composition from an additive perspective and switched to a more subtractive approach. For a long time, I built compositions by asking what I could add to the frame, and if it was not working for me, I would just keep adding more and more elements, which often made my images a mess of competing ideas and features that were very difficult to digest. On the other hand, once I started asking what I could take out of the frame, my images became much more compelling almost instantly, because the only things in them were the absolute necessities, making them clearer and stronger. Check out the video above for lots of helpful tips from Danson.
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