Here are 3 simple ways you can improve your photography in 5 minutes a day. We’re all busy – but the key is to fit your professional development as a photographer into an already hectic life. It can be done! And in this episode Gina and Valerie discuss 3 simple things you can do to up-level your shooting.
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Show Notes
1. How to see light
- Use your smartphone to find the good light
- Spend 5 minutes exposing for skin tones at different times of the day
- Shoot in different types of light
2. Peel potatoes before you make the souffle
- Focus on one thing at a time.
- Start with daylight
- Add a reflector
- Flash with an umbrella
- Expose for daylight and then add flash
3. Find inspiration
- Look beyond the cliches
- Trendy today, tacky tomorrow
- Classic work
Study the work of the Masters, not the instafamous
- Richard Avedon
- Herb Ritts
- Annie Leibovitz
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- Irving Penn
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