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At my workshop last week in NYC we coved some very important points gleaned from my guests on my show. I wanted to give some points that you can try out, your homework assignment, if you will:

1. Ansel Adams said the “whole key” to a photograph lies in your ability to “visualize” or see in your mind’s eye what you intend to have as the final image. This point has been brought up by almost every one of my guests. Your assignment is to take a shot that you have throughly “pre-visualized.”

2. Framing your shots: Take a shot avoiding any sort of framing, then take the same shot, paying attention to framing it.

3. Capture the moment: Go out with your camera, fully prepared to “capture the moment” that is, get the action when you see it, and do so!

4. Putting subjects at ease: Practice taking portraits while putting your subject at ease: Take the posed shot, then have them move their position, or make them laugh, helping them to ease up, and compare with your first posed shot.

5. Make use of the light: Get out early for morning light or in the afternoon in the “golden hours.”

6.  Read your camera’s manual and find something you didn’t know about your camera, then put it to use.

7. Learn how to do the basics with your processing software: Crop, adjust contract, brightness, etc.  Then learn something new and use it to improve your images.

8.  Share your best photos from the above: Post on Flickr, Facebook, or print them and show them off.

Let me know how this goes and send me one or two of your best shots

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