Month: October 2016

Street Photography Clichés: Get Over Them [Super-Takumar 28mm f3.5]

Street photography clichés, such as people walking past pictures and signs or people using their mobile phones, make up a huge percentage of the street photography posted online.

It’s an important step in the development of a street photographer, but there often comes a time when you’ll want to shoot something more original. Perhaps more importantly, there also comes a time when your fans will want to see something more original.

The question is, when the time does come, how can we get over clichéd street photography? Come find out in this post.

Effort Justification and Your Street Photography [Super-Takumar 28mm f3.5]

Effort justification is making you overestimate the quality of your photography. Because you know how much work went into creating it, you hold it in higher regard than anyone else does. And then you wonder why nobody thinks it’s as good as you think it is.

It’s not confined to photographers, of course. Anyone who creates anything will have a skewed idea of its worth. The important thing is to understand this and try to remove it as much as possible. Doing so will help you know what to publish and what to shelve, and to understand why your work might not be getting the acclaim you think it should.

Lessening the effect of effort justification isn’t as difficult as creating your thing was in the first place, but it might take more time. Come learn how here.

The Swimmer’s Body Illusion and Your Photography Blog [Super-Takumar 28mm f3.5]

The swimmer’s body illusion is what makes us think enough lengths of breaststroke can give us the physique of an Olympic athlete. It’s what makes us think some cosmetics can have us looking like a supermodel, and that Oxford is producing genii rather than taking them in.

It’s also something you can use to your benefit with your photography, blog, or anything else you want to do well in. Once you understand the concept, you can use it as a guide to building on your strengths and letting someone else do what you’re average at.

Come learn more about how this cognitive dissonance affects us all, every day, and how recognising it can help you turn it into your advantage.