10 ways to know you made a good picture

by DaniGirl on September 8, 2009 · 0 comments

in Photography,The Family Photographer

(I’m annoyed with Twitter right now, so I pulled this from Twitter to my sideblog!)

This is an excellent little checklist from photographer Scott Bourne to evaluate your photographs. Very simple, but quite helpful set of reminders: 10 ways to know you made a good picture. This is the one I have to really keep in mind: “#7. Emotion: the photograph should evoke some emotion. Any emotion will do. But really good photographs cause an emotional reaction.”

Related posts (automatically generated):

  1. A little something new, or, something new that’s little I have let so many fleeting thoughts slip away because they just aren’t substantive enough to merit a full blog post. Twitter is great for just that sort of thing, but 140 characters is just a little too restrictive sometimes, yanno? I’m hoping this little sideblog will fit the niche...
  2. Welcome All in a Day listeners! If this is your first time here, hello! Pull up a chair and grab a coffee. Curious about project 365? It’s quite simple, really. Take a picture each day for a year. I post mine to Flickr and to this blog, but I have a friend who is doing her...
  3. The Thousand Picture Project: Colours and cakes The theme for this week’s pictures was definitely colour. Maybe I’m pining for spring, but everywhere I looked this week I saw colours begging to be photographed. Like these kiddie bowls from Ikea. In 365 days of being desperate for something, anything to photograph, during which I used these bowls...
  4. Liveblogging labour – part two If only you could have seen me. I got annoyed at the lack of contractions (two between 11:30 and 12:00, then nothing) so I decided I was going to take the dog for a walk. But, I’m leaking like friggin’ Niagara Falls. So I took a page from Ingrid and...
  5. Five ways to enjoy an Ottawa winter with your family My bloggy buddy Guillermo writes two blogs for families that have recently immigrated or are planning to immigrate to Canada – one in Spanish and one in English. You might remember his hilarious guest post here called “32 things about Latinos in Canada.” Now Guillermo has asked me to return...

Leave a Comment

Previous post:

Next post: