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Don’t: the “Mundane” This is one of those words that gets tossed around like a golden turd in art classes. Photographers love it because it makes things easy when they are floundering to explain a boring picture. But the fact is, if it’s boring, it’s boring, and there’s no angle or filter or film that’s gonna change that.
Don’t: Text Please don’t write on your prints, or scratch words into your negatives, or project text through the slide, or whatever. Has that ever been done well? Writers aren’t illustrating their books with bad photos, are they? So don’t illustrate your photos with bad writing. You can’t just throw in some words to beef up a boring photo. Words are a whole other world that you and I know nothing about.
Dos: Nudity, Nostalgia.