Photography: Critiquing Images, Visual Themes

This lesson is part of the series: Digital Photography - Crafting Digital Images

Learning how to critique images, yours and others, is a very fundamental step in learning how to see photographically. In this lesson, Brian will walk you through four good methods to help you to start learning how to see photographically. Once you start seeing ‘photographically’ your image making skills will start growing. Seeing things photographically will also help you to understand your own taste for photography.

Following the coverage of photo critique, Brian moves on to talk about visual themes. Each and every successful image has one or more visual themes. These themes can be: light, color, focus and /or composition. He'll then present images (many from fashion, journalism or portraiture) to you which have one or more of these as primary or secondary visual themes, and along with their presentation, he will critique the images with their particular thematics in mind. This exercise and discussion will teach you things like: The first element in any successful image is light and how the photographer chooses to use it; Yellow is a unique color that is even brighter than red or white; Using selective focus can draw attention to your main theme or subject; The first aspect of good design and composition is framing.

The visual theme segment will help you further understand which visual themes and patterns you notice and like in both your own photography and that of others. Brian will also walk through a few different websites for you to consider using in order to promote your work.

As the price for digital cameras goes down, the number of new professional photographers goes up. To help you stand out amongst the increasing numbers, Brian Ratty has produced a video series on the fundamentals of digital photography. Most photographers know how to take a picture but learning how to craft these pictures is an essential step to producing images that are timeless and treasured.

This lesson is a excerpted from the DVD, Digital Photography: Crafting Images, which is a great resource for those who want to learn how to craft pictures and produce images that last a lifetime. It is the third lesson cut from the DVD and includes chapters 6 & 7, Critiquing Images & Visual Themes.

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Brian Ratty, internationally known photographer, educator and founder of a multi-million-dollar communications company, hosts and writes many instructional DVDs, videos and audio programs on photography. Over the past twenty five years, he and his staff of writers and photographers have completed thousands of professional assignments around the world. Mr. Ratty is a graduate of Brooks Institute of Photography and holds an honorary Master of Science degree.

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