Camera Position 52 : Tossing Your Preconceptions

Preconceived notions about what you’re going to photograph can keep you from finding good images that you may have missed. This episode of Camera Position examines how I nearly fell into that trap in Gubbio, a beautiful town in Italy’s Umbria province.

Images of La Festa Dei Ceri, Gubbio, Umbria by Jeff Curto

Gubbio Drummer Red & Blue

Setting the Ceri Relaxing on the wall

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Camera Position 51 : Travel Gear

Traveling with a camera involves planning. A lot of folks have asked me about traveling with the large format camera, and in this episode of Camera Postiion, I detail the gear that I take on the road.

Basic 4×5 Gear

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Camera Position 50 : Messages From Your Website

What does your website say about who you are as a photographer? Does your site clearly define your goals or do you use your site’s pages as a dumping ground for every photograph you’ve ever made?

In this episode of Camera Position, I look at the way in which web pages can tell us whether our photographs – and what we tell the world about them- are on-target or missing the mark.

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Camera Position 49 : Know Thy Subject

In order to make photographs that are meaningful, it really helps to know your subject in intimate detail. In this episode, I talk about subject research, and about how knowing your subject can be one of the best paths to good photographs.

Gubbio, Umbria

Gubbio, Umbria – Photograph by Jeff Curto

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Camera Position 48 : Getting “Unstuck”

What do you do when you get “stuck” photographically? Here are a few ideas about how to find your way out of “Photographer’s Block,” with some references to how other photographers handle the problem.

Nighttime at the Palio, Siena David Quigg Photograph
Photograph by Jeff Curto (left) and David Quigg (right)

Suzanne Szucs Nicholas Nixon, The Brown Sisters
Photograph by Suzanne Szucs (left) and Nicholas Nixon (right)

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