People love stories. We don’t want just the facts, though. We want stories to make us feel something. Excitement. Danger. Romance. Maybe just a bit of humor, too. Your photos are visual stories, and every photo should evoke an emotion. The Power of Emotions in Storytelling Stories aren’t just for entertainment. We also use them…
Developing your audience isn’t something you hear about from most photographers. Instead, we get the usual lines about the Rule of Thirds or advice to Fill the Frame. What good does that do if you don’t really know what you’re supposed to photograph? A well-composed photograph shown to the wrong group of people won’t flatter…
Over the past few weeks, we shared that The Photo Flunky Show was coming to an end. It’s time for our photography podcast to take a new direction, and we’re kicking it off this week by introducing the I Like Your Picture photography podcast. The core of our new direction is Visual Storytelling, and we…
Backgrounds are one of the three pillars of your photos, along with subject and light. In fact, I think that finding the perfect background is often more important than your subject. Some of the things we want you to understand about backgrounds are pretty straightforward. As a bonus, we’ll also discuss how you can find…
We called this episode “How to Use Graphics with Your Photos.” The truth is that it’s more likely to think of it as “How to Use Your Photos with Graphics.” A photo ought to stand alone to tell a story without descriptive text or graphics. That’s because photos convey so much information without the need…
Did you ever consider that you could use depth to impress people with your photos? Try this. Remember a time when you saw a photo that really impressed you. Think about it. Did you get the feeling that you could almost reach inside and touch things because they seemed so real to you? Depth gives…