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TOP 5 Photography Tricks in 2021

What to study

Desired Outcome

  • On the left a woman holds cardboard wings in a plain car park, and on the right the finished photo looks like gallery art.
  • The cheap setup beside the stunning result is the promise.
  • You believe you could make this picture too.
How the packaging works
Title

The title stamps the format, five tricks, current and countable.

Thumbnail

The setup-and-result split shows the trick is cheap and the payoff is not.

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When you teach a visual trick, split the frame into plain setup and finished result. The duller the setup looks, the stronger the promise. Only use it when the result genuinely wows; a modest result kills the whole format.

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The transferable lesson

Plain setup beside a stunning result sells learnability.

NichePhotography
Video formatHow-to / TutorialAdviceList / Roundup
Click driverDesired OutcomeCuriosity Gap
Visual signalSide-by-Side ComparisonBefore and AfterTransformationSplit Screen

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  2. 2 Define your title, promise and thumbnail
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