Should your images be on a diet?

Less is so much more.

I recently spent a week working on a project. Every day I would shoot with the early morning light and the late afternoon light, all for really one or two images. I didn't have a clear vision of how I wanted it to look, only how I wanted it to feel. I shot hundreds of images, thinking about the light, the shadows, where the focus should be and the narrative. After a week of shooting, I realized something: my story was not clear, but rather too muddled. I tried to do too much with the images, or I had elements in the shot that detracted the viewer from the story. So I put my images on a diet: paired them down, used simple elements, gave my story more clarity by getting closer. Guess what? I got a better result.

Do your images need to be on a diet too?

have fun :-)

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