Category: Personal Projects
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How Have You Developed Your Skills As A Photographer?
How have you developed your skills as a photographer? I have developed my skills as a photographer through experimentation, my photography society, masters, workshops, YouTube videos and books. Firstly I started off by teaching myself photography through experimentation and trial and error by planning my own shoots before I’d even picked up a book or…
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Collaboration
Let’s Talk About Collaboration Why would anyone want to collaborate. To start with you need to find those collaborations that you feel will benefit you. Don’t collaborate with someone who appears on the surface to just be looking for a freebie. As one point of collaboration is that you hope to get some future work…
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Facing My Fears: Part 1: Dogs
I feel as a photographer you should not just photograph subjects you like or things you enjoy. You should also be photographing things you fear. I was terrified of dogs since I was about 7 years old when I went to worden park and I was chased by one until I climbed up a tree…
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8 Photography Techniques To Try While In Isolation
Today I’m going to talk about some effects I have tried during isolation and rate them in terms of level 0 being the easiest and 5 being the hardest. The first effect I tried was the twirl effect. This is where you turn the landscape or portrait into a twirl pattern. It’s a quick and…
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What Lead Me To The Fencing Selfie?
The Inspiration So towards the end of 2015, I joined Preston Photographic Society and I started entering the competitions. One of these competitions is a theme competition, which changes each month and one of the themes was sport. I had two choices to photograph someone doing taekwondo or someone doing fencing because I do both…