Everybody is a photographer — Part 2

How to be original: the don’ts

As already told in part 1, digital photography has allowed everybody to express him/herself. Taking photographs has never been easier and cheaper. You don’t need anything but your phone and a bunch of apps and thus express whatever you want. As any other mass phenomenon, quantity and quality tend to take different paths. The bigger the number of photos, the more the average quality gets lower. This doesn’t mean that no one can excel or just be himself. In a crowded scenery the only way to set yourself apart is to be original and this means only one thing: do not follow what everybody else does.

Your point of view

Photography means basically to have a point of view. Technically the camera is the tool to express it. Just like that. This is easy to agree on and to understand. Nonetheless you should at least have it, let’s forget the tech stuff for a while. Equipment, skills and so on are important but not so much: I see tons of “beautiful” images taken by extremely skillful photographers that are utterly boring. The thing with many beautiful photos is that they’re quite different from good photos (as I explain here) and often don’t express a personal point of view. That’s why we can see millions of very good images on Instagram that look almost like the same thing, over…