creative development

There is a category of photograph that appears constantly in competition shortlists and rarely on the podium: technically impeccable, compositionally correct, well-exposed, sharp where it should be sharp, emotionally legible — and somehow forgettable. Judges can articulate nothing specifically wrong with it. They cannot put it in the top five. This is the originality problem, … [Read more...] about The Originality Problem: Why Technically Perfect Photos Keep Losing