Learning from Photo Mistakes
Posted: March 10, 2020
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It's inevitable that every photographer will have images that are unusable. No matter how many pictures you take or how experienced you are, sometimes a photo can just stink. Instead of getting frustrated over the bad photo and simply deleting it, why not learn from it to help figure out what went wrong. A "photo autopsy" might just be the key to determining whether the image is a complete flop, or whether it has the chance to be recovered.
Rick Ohnsman, contributor to Digital Photography School, walks us through the steps of a photo autopsy to learn from mistakes.
Sometimes things just don’t work out, you make photo mistakes and your resulting image is DOA – Dead on Arrival. What went wrong? To borrow terminology from the world of forensics, determining the “cause of death” might require a “photo autopsy.” A session using investigational tools and procedural techniques can reveal the fatal factors involved. You would hope to learn how to prevent such photo mistakes in the future. You might also sometimes discover that the image may not be dead after all, but only wounded with the opportunity for recovery.
I hope you will not find my use of these terms overly morbid. I use these analogies because they lend themselves well to the methods of discovering what may have gone wrong with your image.
In criminal investigations, it is a forensic pathologist who would perform an autopsy. Using medical knowledge, training and skills, they hope to gain insights that might assist criminal investigators and ultimately provide evidence such that a jury can render a verdict.
So let’s learn about some tools and techniques to solve the crime that is a bad photo.
Read the entire article,
Photo Mistakes? Learning from a “Photo Autopsy”, on
Digital Photography School.