Analyzing Your Images

Photographers find it difficult to evaluate their own pictures. We’re too close to them. The experience of making the photograph, while not often visible to the viewer, colors the way we see an image. And our own subjective likes and dislikes may not be obvious or even relevant to our audience, those with whom we want to communicate.

I propose ten tips to help analyze and evaluate your own photographs. Some of the advice in this section has been covered elsewhere in the book but is collected here as a summation of tools and questions to help you better discern and discriminate between images of your own making. Try to become intuitive in your response and analysis.

A photograph lives in the space between it and a viewer ...

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