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When I was a kid, my parents told me not to touch photographs. "You'll get fingerprints on them," they would say. Fair enough. But as a photographer, metaphorically speaking, I think that should be our highest priority: to put our fingerprints all over our work. To make photographs that are not only good, but truly our own, to have a voice, and to use that voice to say something with the photographs we make. Welcome to The Photographer's Voice.
Introduction
- Episode 01 makes the case for the power of making specific decisions to create a distinct voice through your work, beginning with a look...
Shooting: Unity of Intent
- While most of The Photographer's Voice is about the decisions made once the camera has been put down, Episode 02 backs it up a bit and...
- Episode 03 of The Photographer's Voice explores this question: what are your photographs and bodies of work about? Beginning with a look...
- The second discussion about selecting your photographs, Episode 04 discusses specific choices concerned with the content of your bodies...
- The final conversation about how you might think about selecting down to your keepers, Episode 05 is about some of the practicalities of...
Unity of Aesthetics
- The first in four episodes about stylizing your images begins with a discussion of the kind of harmony so noticeable in cinematography....
- Episode 07 of The Photographer's Voice explores different ways of unifying your work via simple means, like the use of colour...
- Building on the previous episode, Episode 08 is a discussion of complementary colours, which are the colour contrasts created by pairing...
- Wrapping up the discussion of different colour schemas, Episode 09 looks at triadic, split complementary, and analogous complementary...
Unity of Presentation
- If the first nine episodes are about achieving harmony in bodies of work or creating collections of images that say something more...
