Photography skills for AI agents

Techniques for understanding and using color deliberately in photography. Covers complementary and analogous schemes, color psychology, temperature control, and creating visual impact through intentional palette choices in-camera and in post-processing.

Principles for arranging visual elements within the photographic frame. Covers rule of thirds, leading lines, negative space, layering, balance, and breaking rules deliberately to create images that guide the viewer's eye and communicate intent.

Approaches to photographing real events, communities, and social conditions with honesty and depth. Covers ethical considerations, building trust with subjects, long-form storytelling, and creating images that inform and move audiences without manipulation.

Techniques for capturing natural and built environments with depth, atmosphere, and emotional resonance. Covers light timing, foreground interest, exposure management, weather as creative tool, and building images that convey the experience of being in a place.

Core principles of photographic lighting including quality, direction, intensity, and color. Covers reading natural light, understanding hard versus soft sources, using modifiers, and developing the ability to see and shape light in any shooting situation.

Techniques for capturing subjects at life-size or greater magnification, revealing detail invisible to the naked eye. Covers focus stacking, lighting for tiny subjects, managing razor-thin depth of field, and finding extraordinary images in ordinary small-scale worlds.

Techniques for creating photographs that reveal character and connect with the viewer. Covers directing subjects, managing expressions, lighting for faces, lens selection, and the interpersonal skills that make the difference between a likeness and a portrait.

Techniques for developing raw captures into finished photographs. Covers RAW processing, color grading, local adjustments, retouching, and building a consistent editing style that enhances the photographer's vision without replacing what was captured.

Techniques for capturing candid moments, human interactions, and visual stories in public spaces. Covers observation skills, working with available light, ethical considerations, technical speed, and developing a personal vision for urban and everyday life photography.

Techniques for controlled artificial lighting using strobes, continuous lights, and modifiers in studio environments. Covers building setups from a single key light, understanding light ratios, modifier selection, and creating repeatable lighting that serves portrait, product, and creative photography.