Getting Yourself Covered – Insurance
In my classes one of the things I always point out to people is being very careful about taking photos, and something that comes out quite a bit is how people are not aware or […]
Real Photographers Use Manual Mode
When I teach I hear this so much. This idea that to be a real photographer you need to use Manual Mode all the time. Well, I think I am a real photographer and I […]
Lily from the Garden – Monochrome Madness
I did this image for the Monochrome Madness challenge over on my other blog. I used my new extension tubes to get this image. I have just purchased some new Kenko Extension tubes to use […]
Photography Competitions Vs Art Competitions
For a while now I have been asking myself the question of whether I should enter photography competitions, or just do art ones. There is a difference, and it is something I am still trying […]
Selling Your Photographs
I have already done this post but the new formating things I’m trying completely deleted all my content and I was left with just a gallery. So forgive me if this post seems rather short. […]
One Photo Two Ways
It is the Monochrome Madness Challenge on my blog tomorrow morning and I thought I might have a look at how one image can be done one way and then in another. I took this […]
Why Are You Taking That Image
When I am teaching one of the things I try to get through to my students is about intention, basically why are you taking the image. Intention At school now, when students write something they […]
The Social Snappers Photography Excursions for Women
Last week I started the Social Snappers. It seemed like a great idea to get small groups of people together to go out and take photos together. I also thought it would be a great […]
Is Night Photography Hard
Since I’ve been teaching I have heard many times how people think that night photography is really hard. I thought perhaps I might give away the secret of night photography. When I am teaching […]
Predicting Sunsets and Sunrises
Everyone wants to take photos of sunrises and more want to get a good sunset. I did a quick post last weekend on how I get the colours of those, and today I thought I […]
Some Tips on Photographing the Milky Way
I showed some photos today on my main blog of the Milky Way, that I photographed last night and I have had quite a few people ask me what settings I used, so I thought […]
The Concept in Conceptual Photography
The other day I went to an event and it was about creative portraiture, or conceptual photography. I tend to call conceptual photography Fine Art Photography. The event was to teach people how to do […]
Entering a Competition
Well I did it, I got all my images ready and changed them to the right size. I even read the terms and conditions. A good thing to do when you are entering a competition. […]
MMC13 submissions closing soon.
Only one left to get your images in for the Monochrome Madness challenge this week. Here are the details if you would like to send me an image for this week. Now, if you wish to participate […]
Getting the Colours of the Sunset or Sunrise
This morning I went out early to see if I could get a sunrise, I have written a post about this already, Weekend Wanderings – Sunrise Over the Flats, but I thought I might talk about how […]
Taking Photos of People
Today I was teaching a photography class and we were looking at Portrait photography. I try to give my students as much information as I can about photographing people. I know that portrait photography is […]
Post on competitions
Following up from my post today on my main blog, the Up for Discussions – Competitions, I am going to add the links to this blog so you can follow them up if you choose. […]
Teaching Classes
One of the ideas behind having this here is so you and others can be kept up to date with what my plans are for teaching and other aspects of my business. I do really […]
Making News
This section is going to be used to make announcements about things that I am doing and what I am planning on doing.