How To Envision A Photo

Video Transcript

" I am Chris Conklin on behalf of expertvillage.com. Another way to look at the story is vision. What is it that you see? When you are out some place, regardless of where it is and you want to take a picture, take a moment and close your eyes and visualize exactly what that particular picture is and your surroundings and then have some kind of a concept of what it is that you wanted to look like and then how many different things you want to put in it and then open your eyes and then shoot the pictures. If you just ran and we shoot pictures then go back and look at them later typically what’s going to happen, if you are going to find yourself looking at pictures wishing that you had a different type of setting, I wish I had taken it differently. So, again upfront picture taking can be a lot more effective than just randomly out, just taking a bunch of pictures. Having subjects or people in the shot is always more appealing than just having a background. Now, unless you are specifically shooting a landscape, a building, a structure that you want just for the photograph that’s fine, but if you are just taking because we were there okay, especially like amusement parks, vacations, different locations, put your subjects in there, put your family members or your friends in it, typically somebody that you know or somebody that you find interesting. It can help tell the story that also matches the vision of what you are trying to do or what you are trying to say. "