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The Perceptive Photographer — 610 episodes · page 3 of 7
Ep 411 The importance of practice in photography
Ep 410 What are the best ways to come up with project ideas
Ep 409 Quantity is the name of the game
Ep 408 Setting goals for 2023
Ep 407 Thoughts on Points of View
Ep 406 Some thoughts on titling your photographs
Ep 405 Explaining verse justifying your images and the importance of print storage
Three things to clean up before the end of the year
How to be a better speaker about your photographs
Thoughts on working with your audience
Is it recognition that you seek in your photos or something else
Episode 400 and a thanks to the community
The problem with clear and concise in photography
Pushing against the resistance
All photographers need to return to the basics and a good pair of shoes
Do your photographs fit into your emotional buckets
Self-doubt and the value of getting your shot
Understanding a photograph by looking at its peers
What is normal anyway?
Time is the ultimate variable
AI and the challenge of what it means to make art
Is straight out of the camera important or even possible?
10 tips to kick up your creativity in your photography
Is simple always good in photography?
The power of two & working with diptychs
How much does that photograph cost?
Has digital really changed photography that much?
What defines a great print in photography?
Photography and the expression of idea
Improv and the value of yes, and
Comfort food verse new food as an approach to your photography
Value of forgetting things
The lure of instant gratification
Research to make more meaningful images
Listener questions on how to improve quickly and when the subject is the light
Can we tell if you are upset?
Conversation starters
You can’t please everyone
The making of a one hit wonder
What is photography about?
Dealing with choices
Instant successes decades in the making
Lessons from bird watching to improve your photography
Pick one thing to focus on in your work
What makes a basic photograph interesting?
Blurry and sharp in your photography
Why you need I statements in your work
Well it has been 7 years since this all started
Sense of wonder or obligation
Two task challenge week
Are facts destroying your creativity?
Where do you put your time?
Who is your audience?
How am I today and how do I want to be?
Taking a moment to honor your images before you delete them
A wish for all of us in 2022
Some listener questions to end 2021
On our photographic journey a few little things to pick up along the way
Feeling verse knowing is huge in your photography
Meaning relationships and the impact on the photograph
What’s the purpose for the picture?
How you group images can really change things
It’s all been done before…
The notion of sequencing images
Thinking about the defining moment
What do you collect?
Memory is a powerful thing in photography
Revisiting the contact sheets
Subtle Nuances
Clarity is not just a slider in Lightroom
It is time for a reboot?
Listen to tell a better story in your photography
Increasing your satisfaction with your images
The process is part of your inspiration
If your settings on your camera are “correct” does that mean all the other options are incorrect?
Can I quote you on that?
Art of the metaphor
Everybody loves a parfait. Peeling back the layers on a meaningful conversation
Footnotes and endnotes Episode One
Being more successful by doing nothing
Why do you care what other people photograph and why bash on them?
Change your thinking not your settings
What’s the rush?
How do the spaces we work in and frames we create overlap?
Focus on the ripples in your pond
Does our style shift when working on different photographic projects
Stuck in neutral and the sense of going nowhere
How important is accuracy in a photograph?
The value of ideas that are both easy and hard
Of course, you shouldn’t know that…
How to tell better stories in your photographs
Are Cliff Notes the way to go to learn photography? (you can likely guess my answer)
The loss of sight and photography
Not everything has to be the same
Our reactions make the difference
Reading is fundamental
Importance of Spring Cleaning
Listener questions about new tech, inspiration, and finding one thing that matters
Staying with something good or evolving to something better
Nice photograph, but is it personal?