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Essential skill: Developing a photographic style

Essential skill: Developing a photographic style

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Essential skill: Developing a photographic style

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- Hi, I'm Ben Long. This is called the Practicing Photographer for a reason, it's practice, that means repetition, that means we're going to show you something we've shown you before. This week, it's an essential skill that's really worth looking back at. (television beeps) (clapboard smacks) A couple of months ago, I was motorcycling across Nevada, and as I sometimes do when I'm riding in really remote places, I was listening to a podcast as I was riding, and I was listening to an episode of NPR's Fresh Air, and Terry Gross was interviewing Jon Stewart, I think The Daily Show had just ended, and she was playing back interviews that she'd done, and he was telling the story of one of his earliest gigs in New York, when he had a 2 a.m. time slot every single night at some comedy club, and he was saying how, you know, of course there's hardly any audience at 2 a.m., but what that experience did for him, doing that time…

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