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5 controversial photography tips they don't teach you at Fotovakschool

Wednesday 13 December 2023, 20:10 by | 3,943 views | 1 comment

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Photographer PJ Pantelis gives you five controversial photography tips in this video that they don't teach you at Fotovakschool. Whether that last part is really true, I don't know, because I've never attended Fotovakschool myself, and neither has PJ.


The five tips are:

1. Underexpose your photos slightly
2. Add style in post-processing
3. Convenience does not equal quality
4. The best photographers cheat
5. Everyone is just pretending

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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1 comment

  1. Donald Willemsen
    Donald Willemsen wrote on Tuesday 19 December 2023 at 10:40  | reply

    Five excellent tips. Tip 4 especially appeals to me. Not to point an accusing finger, but rather to appreciate the photographer's professionalism.

    Translated from Dutch.

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