July | 2015 | Jeff Curto's Camera Position

One of the four steps of achieving true critique of a work of art is analysis and doing that analysis requires applying the elements and principles of art. In this episode, we look at what those elements and principles are so we can employ them in true critique of our photographs.

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An infographic on the elements of art and the principles of art as a PDF (also as a JPEG)
Use artsy.net to look at some masterworks of art to begin exercising these ideas:
Contemporary Photography:

In the last couple of episodes of Camera Position, I talked about feedback on your work and the type of feedback you typically get contrasted against the type of feedback you want, which is true, genuine critique of your work.

In truth, critique of any sort is based entirely on critical thinking or the objective analysis and evaluation of something in order to form an evaluation of it. Critical thinking is at the base of how we come to know something… critical thinking is the engine of learning.

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