Posts by Robert Rodriguez Jr
Why I Outgrow My Own Photos
There’s a simple creative practice I do every year that’s helped me understand my own work better than any amount of shooting new images. I review my portfolio and remove 10-15% of the images that no longer measure up to where I am today, then add new work that better represents my current vision. I…
Read MorePhotograph What Excites You
In a recent Print Lab session, a member asked a thoughtful question, the kind of question I could spend a whole hour discussing. He wanted to know if I’d ever done an exercise where four or five people describe the same image, looking at the commonalities and the differences, to see what that tells us…
Read MoreFinding the Essence in Your Photograph
I’m sure you’re familiar with the feeling of walking into a beautiful scene that stops you in your tracks. You consider the various compositional options, you raise the camera, and suddenly it’s busier than you first imagined. There are too many highlights on the left, a tree blocking the better tree, a foreground that was…
Read MoreComposition Is the Skill You Never Stop Learning
When I teach composition, I start with a simple observation: the rules are the easy part. You can learn the rule of thirds or the basics of leading lines in an afternoon. What takes years to internalize is what composition actually is beneath those ideas. Here’s what I’ve come to believe, after many years of teaching composition…
Read MoreThe Only Thing That Ever Made a Great Photograph
Kevin Kelly has been photographing seriously for 55 years. He’s the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, a futurist, a prolific author (including photography books), and someone who has thought as carefully about technology as almost anyone alive. Here is what he recently said about his camera: “I’ve been seriously photographing for 55 years and the best…
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