2. Styles & Standards
Ask questions to yourself
1. What’s good about it?
2. What’s not good?
3. What could be better?
Move beyond your own likes and dislikes
3. Value
Value means the range of light in the photo, going
from black to white changing to grey and white.
Having good contrast makes the grey more clear
Having not good contrast will make the grey blurry and
will lack the interest of viewers.
4. Improving Value
Always ask, “How the photo can be better?”
Don’t assume that the photo is automatically perfect.
The most common mistake is incorrect exposure.
Don’t leave the film in the developer too long, because
it will become too contrasty.
Leaving the film in the developer for a short period of
time will make the contrast low.
5. Clarity
You want the photo to be focused.
Not just the photo in focus, but it should be correctly
focused.
It should either be sharp or soft
Questions to ask:
1. What’s in focus?
2. What should be in focus?
Photo with bad clarity
6. Presentation
You don’t want white flecks known as: satellites,
glitches, scuzz, hickies, or glop.
Fingers are also bad.
Scratches and or dark circles are caused by poor
agitation when developing film.
Having a dust free area will be the best possible idea for
having the best photos.
7. Composition
Must have style
Looking for point of interest
Cropping
1. Are the important elements within the crop
2. Take out “black areas” and/or “negative space”
3. Make sure the photo is balanced
Lines and curves have large impact
Look closely to find curves
