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For every photographer, it is the praises they get for their work that keeps them going, but most times people do not express themselves about the image. Majorly, these comments are enough for most people but as a photographer, this is just the beginning to create and improve on your photography. Unfortunately, there’s no fast way or a particular secret to getting better at photography, however, there’s a direct route to getting better at photography.
The Direct and only way to get better at photography is:
- Vision: Your vision is the first thing you need to understand as a photographer and this gives you access to move around and create magic. As important as you might carry every other photography component, your vision is the first and most crucial characteristic you must posses. Having a vision as a photographer is to grasp the comprehension of “Visual Language” by this you’re able to understand pattern recognition.
- Pattern Recognition: This can be anything that you find helpful, pattern recognition can be abstract things like the shadow, contrast, juxtapositions, colours, they can also be things of compositional patterns like the lines, frames, shadows, etc. Once you’re able to master these patterns you begin to apply them to your images then begin to speak and communicate with your works.
- Intention: Some of your intentions in this process might be subconscious. By the time you begin to infuse all of this things into your creative process, then it becomes your daily routine. Also, always be intentional with every little detail you put into your work.
- Rules: One very peculiar thing about all these rules is that they have a pre-defined meaning and if you are bypassing these rules that means that they no longer function but if you’re breaking these rules make sure you’re doing it with pure intentions and bear in mind the consequences for breaking each of the rules.
- Have A Visual Language Fluency: You need to understand all the patterns also recognizing them in their real sense, and be able to make use of them when required in your images at your own discretion.
So many things start to change when you begin to combine all these multiple patterns together in your image which is known as story. Your story begins to have many faces which exudes the beauty in your image.
