This Saturday is the inaugural World Cyanotype Day. Cyanotype is a simple printing process, originally developed to copy engineering drawings (blueprints) that also made its way into the photography world. You can find out a bit more about Cyanotype from Wiki. It is possible, and by the looks of things fairly easy, to produce a…
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A prime way to improve your photography is to practice. Taking pictures every day, or at least several times per week, will help you to better understand how your camera performs. You will get used to the best settings for different situations and learn to change your camera settings quickly almost without thinking. This ability…
There are all manner of different ways to learn photography and learn about photography. I bought a polystyrene head to practice lighting head shots for example. One of the ways that I enjoy most is the podcast. I subscribe to a number of audio and video podcasts that roll out episodes every week (sometimes more…
Following on from the previous post about 4 stage of learning to be a photographer, we come to stage 3; Semi-Pro Is someone who is consciously competent and knows how much they know. This is someone who understands how most photographs are taken. They recognise lighting, compositional techniques and often where post-processing has been used….
In my last post, I introduced the concept of the 4 Stages of Learning, today I want to expand on the first two of these; Beginner As I described before, someone who is unconsciously incompetent (meant in the nicest possible way of course), they don’t know how much they don’t know. Just because they are…