Photography: 5 keys to analyzing your pictures

Photography: 5 keys to analysing your pictures

Lindsay POUI-DI

20 Aug 2014

updated the 14 July 2015 à 18:34

Christine Ulivucci, psychotherapist and author of a book on the topic, gives us some hints about analysing our photos.

1) BE OBJECTIVE

Have the most objective look as possible for the image. For that purpose, free yourself from what you know or what you’re told about the people appearing in it.

2) BE ATTENTIVE TO THE CONFIGURATION OF THE GROUP

Who do we see and who is absent? Who is next to whom? In the foreground, in the background, in margin?

3) ANALYSE THE DETAILS

Gestures, postures, distances between people, physical and visual contacts… If necessary, take a magnifying glass and zoom in by hand or by look.

4) LOOK AT THE DECOR

Scrutinize the chosen decor and the way the subjects fit in. In other words, all that surrounds the ‘characters’: the atmosphere of the place, the furniture, the accessories, the framing, etc.

5) DEAL WITH THE PRESERVATION OF PHOTOS

Think about the method of preservation of the photos. Are they dog-eared, stained, cut, framed, annotated, placed in albums (observe their disposition) or arbitrarily put in a box? Are they exhibited in a house and, if so, in which room?