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One Resolution That Will Actually Improve Every Part of Your Photography This Year
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One Resolution That Will Actually Improve Every Part of Your Photography This Year

Every January I go through the same ritual. I open a fresh notes app page, type “Photography Goals” at the top, and proceed to write a list that is way too ambitious for any human being with a day job. Shoot more film. Master off-camera flash. Finally figure out astrophotography. Learn Capture One. The list grows until it collapses under its own weight sometime around mid-February. So when I came across this Mark Denney tutorial focused on simplifying the whole New Year’s resolution process down to a single photography goal, I stopped scrolling pretty fast.

Stop Chasing Bangers: What Peter McKinnon's Viral Rant Taught Me About Posting Better Photos
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Stop Chasing Bangers: What Peter McKinnon's Viral Rant Taught Me About Posting Better Photos

There’s a trap I fell into for a long time, and if you’ve been shooting for more than six months and posting regularly, you’ve probably fallen into it too. Every photo I shared had to be better than the last one. Every Sunday walk had to produce something jaw-dropping, something scroll-stopping, something worth the caption I’d spend twenty minutes writing. When it didn’t, I’d just… not post. And then the gap between posts would grow, and the pressure would compound, and eventually photography started to feel like a job I wasn’t getting paid for.

What Happens When 3 Photographers Shoot the Same Model (And What It Taught Me About My Own Style)
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What Happens When 3 Photographers Shoot the Same Model (And What It Taught Me About My Own Style)

The Uncomfortable Question I Keep Avoiding Last month I was shooting a friend for her brand refresh, and about twenty minutes in I realized I was making the same three choices I always make. Same shooting angle, same light side of the face, same “look slightly off camera” direction. She looked great. The photos were fine. But fine isn’t what either of us was hoping for. That’s the problem no one really talks about: developing a personal style is great, until that style becomes a rut you can’t climb out of mid-shoot.