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Learn on your own or learn from a good teacher.

A good teacher acts as a guide who will give you useful information and encourage you to apply that information to your own work, in your own way, so you can travel on your own unique path as a photographer.

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That’s something I hear often during my Introduction To Photography class. Here’s the truth. I miss a lot of pictures for a lot of reasons and I think other photographers who are honest will say the same thing. I’m not sure when this happened, but I’ve come to accept  that missing pictures is a part of […]

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As a photographer I think that  there are three things that you mainly do with your camera to create a photograph. You focus light (focusing), you measure light (metering) and you let a specific amount of light fall onto light  sensitive  material (making an exposure). If you’ve been working your camera in an automatic mode your camera has been […]

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When we begin to learn about the craft of photography we may begin to think that that we are no longer paying attention to composition. Instead of simply framing what we want  in our picture we’re now thinking about focusing, metering, exposure and more. While attentively framing what we want in our photograph (content) is important, framing and the placement […]

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Drawing Inspiration – Jennifer Spelman Drawing Inspiration is a series of posts dedicated to photographers who have inspired me. If possible, I’ve included a quote and a link to their work. “Surviving the photo industry is one part vision, one part business and all heart. – Jennifer Spelman http://www.jenniferspelman.com/ Who are the photographers that inspire […]

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