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My Experience as a student of Maggie Steber

© Herzen Cortes 2015   Recently I participated in Maggie Steber’s Mystery Photo Workshop in Miami as part of the Miami Street Photography Festival, a 5-day event sponsored and organized by Leica and Leica Akademie.   In my 8 years producing photo workshops I have been to many workshops and have known many photographers, I can say that this workshop was quite unique from its conception. It was not a workshop about creating great imagery or about creating a story, it was about unleashing our creativity to produce a body of work that would convey Mystery as a message, whatever…

How to Make Photo Composition Work

What you click matters a lot in photography. The more unique your subjects, the more value you photograph is bound to accumulate. However, choosing the right subject is not the only important thing in the art of photography. How you shoot the subject also plays a major role. If you don;t known how to shoot a subject the right way, then even the most extraordinary subjects can end up looking worthless.   This is where something called ‘Composition’ comes in. ‘Composition’ is basically a set of guidelines to help photographers capture the best of their subjects. Though, depending on them…

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Stories behind Magdalena Sole´s images – Part II

Image above: R.A Catchings & Leonard Henderson at WE J´S © Magdalena Solé   I searched for the perfect chapel all over the Mississippi Delta until I found the Brooklyn Chapel in Greenwood. Not only was the chapel and the light just right, but also the cotton was at its fullest and the clouds that day perfectly mimicked the shape of the cotton balls. I didn’t know the picture existed until I found it.   R.A Catchings & Leonard Henderson at WE J´S © Magdalena Solé   It was still light outside when I took this picture at WE’J’s bar…