If You Have to Do This, Then It Never Was a Good Photograph to Begin With

Want to be a bad photographer? Well, it’s simpler than you may think. It all boils down to lack of a signature, or style. To substitute the lack of this most important feature for your photographs, all you have to do is adopt a cliche’ action. What’s a cliche’ action? It’s an action that people adopt regularly who have yet to define their own signature style. A lack of a photographic brand in other words. In replacement of such, they do some of the following listed below.

Selective coloring, is one example of a way some photographers substitute having a unique and distinctive identity. If they did have a distinctive and unique brand, they would never sacrifice such for selective coloring. If a black and white photograph has to have a red rose to make it interesting, then it’s just not an interesting photo to begin with.

Camera tilt action is generally just as bad. Constant use of the horizon tilt is not a signature or brand. If you have to throw the horizon in tilt to make it interesting, then it never was an interesting photograph to begin with either.

Tunnel vision vignette is also just as bad. It’s way better to darken the edges slightly to keep the clients eyes on the subject of your photo. Use vignette to keep the eyes from wandering off the edge, because they often never return to your photo once they leave.

These are just a few basic cliche’ actions that photographers grasp when they lack a signature. Spend time making your signature brand, and you will find yourself sparingly using these cliche’ actions. In other words, define yourself.

Mark Englund and his wife Tracy are lead wedding photographers for Thisisyou.net in Atlanta Georgia, who also maintain passports for international destination weddings. Their Portfolio, resource blog, and package information can be viewed at http://www.thisisyou.net/.