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Photography Cross Training: How Skills From One Genre Make You Sharper in All of Them
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Photography Cross Training: How Skills From One Genre Make You Sharper in All of Them

Every Sunday morning I take a photo walk around Seattle. No agenda, no client, no shot list. I bring whatever camera feels right that week, sometimes my mirrorless kit, sometimes just my phone. What I’ve noticed over the years is that the weeks I’ve been shooting a lot of food or product work, my street portraits get sharper. Not technically sharper, sharper in the sense that I’m reading light faster, thinking about gesture more deliberately, framing with more intention.

The Excuses Keeping Your Portrait Work Stuck (And What to Do Instead)
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The Excuses Keeping Your Portrait Work Stuck (And What to Do Instead)

The Moment I Stopped Blaming My Gear Last spring, I handed my phone to a stranger at a coffee shop and asked her to grab a quick shot of me at the table. She fumbled with it for a second, then handed it back apologetically. “I’m not a photographer,” she said. I smiled and told her neither was I, once. That exchange is part of why I started teaching, and it’s also why a recent Visual Education tutorial landed so hard when I watched it.