Center the Post
Please make an effort effort to make sure your post looks great. When you add photos, center the photographs in the column.
Check the Links
After you edit your post, open your individual blog post in a browser by clicking on any photo. A new page should open with all of the photos shown as thumbnails at the bottom. It is then easy to navigate by clicking on the thumbs or simply using the arrow keys. Make sure that clicking on any photograph opens the window that displays all photos in the set. Sometimes photos get added and the link is missing and they are not included in the ‘individual post’ page.
Create Continuity
During the shooting week you can add photos in a chronological order, with the newest photos at the top. But when it comes time to edit down to the final photos for the Critique, reorder the photos so their adjacencies makes some sense. Groups similar photos together. Try to establish some ‘Content Bleed’.
Tonality
Half the photographs for the first critique must be toned. But do it subtly. If the color is too strong it becomes a ‘colorized’ photo. We are trying to emulate the look of high-end silver prints as made by the masters.
Clichés
Remember to avoid the new Smartphone photo clichés: selfies, pictures of food, sunsets. Pictures of singular objects (with no environment to add extra meaning) are not interesting. If they are easily identified, they have no mystery. Make photographs that show you looking at the subject, not just the appearance of the subject.
Photo Hunting
Get out of your apartment and stalk the streets for good photos. See what you are drawn to intuitively. Collect those pictures, organize them into sets, and then go hunting for more pictures to fill out or expand the set.
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