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How to Self-Critique Your Photography

How and why self critique in photography is good:

Seeking to surprise yourself and delight yourself

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This seems to be the first thing. For myself, I delight most in my photography when I look at my photos (new or old) and am surprised by how unique or interesting the compositions are!

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Seeing more artistically

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When I see this photo as a small thumbnail, I see the Creation of Adam [Hand of Man]:

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Seeing the world more abstractly

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To see the world too literally is anti-artistic. To see the world more abstractly is superior.

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The never-ending process and journey

Then the goal:

Never stop.

ERIC


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