Connect With Your Subject

Connect with your subject, exhaust all possibilities and you’ll come back with great shots

Russ Burden

Published December 28, 2015
Updated July 27, 2016

There are many reasons why Photographer A may produce better pictures than Photographer B, who turns out more dramatic images than Photographers C, D, E.

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