This week I went to the Utah County Writers League where I learned about photography. I thought I’d share my knowledge and notes. Let’s hope I got most of the important information with my wonderful… note taking.

Ten Photo workouts to make you a better photographer:
Lecture by Justin Huckworth (http://justinhackworth.com/blog/about/)

People usually ask two questions:
a. What should I photograph? Photograph what you love. Photograph what you want to remember.
b. How do you know if the picture is “good” If it is music, if it sounds good nad moves you it is good music. It is successful if the photo resonates.
We will all have different perspectives of what photos resonate with us.
It’s not what you see but how you see
Check out book “No more second hand art”

10 Steps:
1. The unmade bed: Let natural light come into the photo. Natural light create descriptive photo.
2. Faces: Photograph an everyday object that has a face in it. This teach you to look beyond the first impression such as a face found in a car meter machine, a mop or .This will let you see the graphic possibilities.
3. Alphabet: everyday object that look like a letter of the alphabet. The letter c might be found in the design of a gate while an H might be part of a fence.
4. Pre-assigned ideas about what something looks like to keep us from photographing in a new way. One way to combat this is to photograph in sequence as they happen.
5. A memory: think of a memory as a kid and think of the emotion behind that moment. Then take a photograph that would create the same kind of emotion as the childhood memory.
6. Look at the work of other photographers. This will expand you’re your mind. It is better to seek out high quality art in art shows or professionally printed photograph books. Looking at art of the internet does not give you a real perception of the quality of the work.
Recommended artists: Irving Pentina Barney, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann; Lee Fried Landen; Nicholas Nixon; Alocsath; William Eggkston; Elliott Erwitt; Helmul Newton; Harry Callahan; Stephen Shore; Richard Avedoh; Reneke Dijks.
Answer one of the following questions
7. What is your main characteristic take a photo of that characteristic? And What inspires you the most?
8. Self Portrait: examples: your shadow or to put something in front of you like a light, in a car.
9. Take just one picture: this will help you fight the temptation to be lax on the quality of photography by taking a lot of pictures.
10. A project: Have an on-going project. Examples: a picture a day for a year, 39 strangers, portraits of mothers and daughters. All my friends are monsters (making funny faces) A daily picture for one birthday year.
Photographs are made in the heart and in the head. Not in the camera.

Answers to Questions:
Backup photographs in two locations hard drive and on line (cloud or company site)
Name your photo Yr\Date\Mo.Number/name.
Put in folders that match the theme.
Photo size for Print book = 300 dpi print eBooks =72dpi.