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\u201cI was reading on the web\u2026\u201d was the start to an email over the weekend. That\u2019s always a HUGE red flag to me. But in the process of learning about photography, reading is definitely part of the equation. The problem comes though when website A says black and website B says white and you\u2019re stuck in the middle wondering which is right. And more importantly, which is right for YOUR photography! When you\u2019re starting out or even further down the road, where do you turn to find the answers?<\/p>\n

\u201cYour images all look dark!\u201d This was a comment made about my prints at our recent Photo Bi$ class. And the observer was right. He wasn\u2019t talking about the printing job but rather that the majority of the tones in my photos are on the subdued side. You could generalize that the majority of my images are technically, underexposed. And if you look at the entire body of my photography over the last three decades, you\u2019d see that same thing runs true through all my images. That\u2019s how I like them.<\/p>\n

How did I start out more or less with the underexposure \u201cstyle\u201d that I still use today? Back in the day when I started, there was no Internet but there was this great resource called books. I love to read but photography books in my day were mostly photos, short on words. I learned to look at photographs, look for those aspects I liked and then figure out how it was accomplished. This was a training that has served me well, one I still use to this day. In this process, I constantly found myself pulled to the \u201cdarker\u201d images. The color, mystery, the use of space, the importance of light and bright to me was obvious as a simple yet effective tool to visually communicate. And since I was seeing images like this in print, from masters, then to me it was obvious. This was a style that worked.<\/p>\n

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Are there possibly technical drawbacks to this style? Of course, and who cares! Other photographers in their very normal insecure style will happily point out all the technical issues. The general public though, the mass consumer of images doesn\u2019t give a rats ass! They will simply vote thumbs up or thumbs down with the flip of a page. What they look for in a photo is education and entertainment, not noise or that other stuff you\u2019re constantly told you need to worry about. Put a smile on a viewer\u2019s face and you can even have a photograph not tack sharp. It doesn\u2019t matter, you created the smile, that\u2019s all that matters!<\/p>\n

Still comes back though to the issue\u2026how DO YOU arrive to that point? Reading is always good but make sure you combine that with looking at photographs. I\u2019m talking really looking and looking at just as many images in print as on the web. Keep in mind that many of the images on the web have had no filter, they are just put up because the person likes the photo. But those images in print have gone through a very important filter, the editor. It is those folks who have taught many of us what works and what doesn\u2019t work and why. Their knowledge and expertise in what reaches the masses successfully is a very important learning tool that ultimately is the best way to learn about photography. So, no matter what you read or someone tells you, remember it\u2019s YOUR photography!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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