Creativity makes the images that speak to your soul. We all have a sense of imagination and creativity, but we can enhance those senses by learning how to use tools and techniques to provide a unique vision in every photo.
Is it really important to choose the right subject for your photo? After all, I’ve said before that the subject almost doesn’t matter if you have good lighting and a great background. You could almost replace one subject with another and still create a great photo. Of course, our subjects are the entire reason we…
You can use depth and dimension in your photos to help your viewer enjoy a sense of realism. Fight those flat 2D images. Give your viewers some 3D photos that look like they could just walk into them. Yes, we all know that a photo is really just a 2D image. That’s why you have…
Here’s the reason I like movement in photography. To me, there’s nothing more boring than a still life photo. Without movement, where’s the life? Movement in photography is one of the ways to create interest and engagement with your photos. Even though it’s just a still photo, a sense of movement allows people to fill…
Space and balance should be part of any photograph or artistic work. Balance is a basic premise of design. It describes how the elements of art relate to each other in the composition. Done properly, balance provides visual equilibrium. In other words, the visual weight seems equally balanced. Space is a part of balance and…
We’re celebrating 200 episodes of Visual Storytelling on the I Like Your Picture podcast. For all the photographers who listened to us for a long time, thank you. Lee and I started doing this podcast to share our thoughts on photography, not photography gear or software. Those are all fun things, but it’s the heart…
You want to create unity in your photography so all of the elements look like they belong together. Have you ever looked at a photo and something just didn’t seem right? Sure, it used the obligatory compositional elements like Rule of Thirds or Leading Lines. There’s nothing obviously wrong when you see it. It just…