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3. SHUT UP and Shoot:
A quick start guide to better
mobile photography

4. What to expect
‣ Keep an open mind.
‣ It’s all about the light.
‣ Zoom with your feet.
‣ Control exposure and focus
separately.
‣ Silence your inner critic.

5. ‣ Secret to strong storytelling.
‣ Power of observation.
‣ Forget the Filters.
‣ Shooting from and for the heart.
‣ Setting goals, deadlines and study time.
‣ How to always be ready.

6. Eye HEart+

7. mobile photography is hard!

9. I trust that the creative eye
will continue to function,
whatever technological
innovations may develop.
- Ansel Adams 1983

10. “Light makes photography.
Embrace light. Admire it. Love it.
But above all, know light. Know it
for all you are worth, and you will
know the key to photography.”
~George Eastman

11. Technical proficiency is highly
over-rated.
OBSERVATION

23. There is no bad light, only the
wrong light for a particular
subject.
1:55pm

24. ZOOM*
with your feet
CROP
Don’t
instead
*NEVER use the mobile zoom feature

31. SILENCE THE
INNER CRITIC

32. DON’T THINK,
JUST SHOOT

33. “ Your first 10,000
photographs are
your worst.”
~Henri Cartier-Bresson

34. LIFE BALANCE
IS OVERRATED

35. BE READY!

38. Shoot from
the HEART

40. Energy and Directed Attention
2. COMPOSITION

41. The Rule of Thirds

44. 1
2
3

50. “Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to
accomplish something.”
~Thomas A. Edison

51. Finding Your Visual Voice
POSTPRODUCTION

56. Let it BAKE
Cut off the Ends
&

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66. TRY THIS:
See if you can go one day of
shooting EVERY time your inner
voice say's, "I'd like to take a
picture of that."

68. ASSIGNMENT:
Take 20 images of one thing
from different angles.

70. ASSIGNMENT: Make a list
You have to know what you want to see
before you can see it.

71. You must have a GOAL
in order to score.

76. Love your experiments,
as you would an ugly child.

79. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Garry Winogrand
Saul Leiter
Roy DeCarava
Helen Levitt
William Klein
Vivian Maier

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It’s as easy as...
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81. KEEP CALM
and
๏Be PROLIFIC try to make it to 10,001 images, but
remember EDIT, we don't need to see all 10,000 of
your ugly children. :)

82. ๏ Be ready! You want to make sure that when your “mind”
says shoot, you have no excuses, like "Oh, my camera
was in my purse, pocket, or *gasp*, your camera wasn’t
around.
KEEP CALM
and

83. ๏practice PRACTICE practice
๏Master your tool and your creativity soars.
๏Give yourself ASSIGNMENTS and DEADLINES!
KEEP CALM
and

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