Creativity

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…

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…

Think about the last time you went out to photograph. Before you even raised your camera, many decisions had already been made. What kind of light you’d look for, what subjects would catch your attention, how you’d compose the frame. Even what you’d consider worth photographing at all. But here’s the thing: your habits made…

Last week I was working with a student on an image, and he kept hesitating on his adjustments. “I want it to look credible,” he said. That word stopped me. Credible to whom? The Two Kinds of Credibility Here’s what I’ve come to understand about credibility in photography: 1. There are two definitions. One is…