Tomorrow, I start my new venture in tutoring hobbyist photographers, by providing a workshop that will help them to understand their cameras' much better but more importantly, how to make a good photograph.
Firstly, a camera doesn't make a good photograph anymore than a typewriter wrote a good novel. It's all about the person holding the camera and what is in their hearts.
There's a scientific formula for creating a strong photograph but those that already know how to make one, can spot these scientific creations a mile off. Anyone can use the magic rule of thirds with leading lines through the photograph as it dodges repetitive features etc. Landscape photography is probably the easiest genre of photography to start with. The landscape rarely moves in front of you.
In my workshops, I'm going to teach people how to see properly. What makes a good photograph and how to turn the simplest of things in to something so majestic looking (if that's your cup of tea). Some photographs work well when they don't look majestic and look dilapidated. It really does depend on what the World says to you. How do you view our amazing planet and the creatures that inhabit it?
As this is my new venture, I'll be considering running additional workshops in the future. Tomorrow's will be ran from The Clock Tower Tea Room by the waters edge in Hartshill. All of the photographs in this blog post was created in the location of the workshops.
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