Hello and welcome to Inspired, a new weekly email for my paid subscribers. In this series I want to explore topics which I hope might spark some inspiration for your own photography. I will talk about my thought process for creating images, both in the field and in post processing. The posts will be linked in some way to the monthly challenges, hopefully giving you all lots of food for thought.
‘Don’t shoot what it looks like, shoot what it feels like.’
- David Alan Harvey
In this weeks ‘Inspired’ post I wanted to discuss emotion in photography and how we can incorporate this into our images.
When we first begin photography we are consumed with the technical aspects of making good images. Are we using the appropriate aperture? Is our shutter speed correct? And what about ISO and composition? We usually have hundreds of questions that quite rightly consume our thoughts. However as we progress and master the technicalities of taking photos many of us ignore the one element that I think makes or breaks an image - emotion.
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