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Category: Motivation

Artist or Photographer?

Artist or photographer? A question after a talk I gave stumped me for a while, and here’s why. But is it either / or or can I be both?

October 21, 2022
How a small edit changes a snapshot to fine art

How can one photo work as both a snapshot and as fine art with just one small edit?

October 3, 2020
The Heron Wood, 2020 an intuitive project

Is your photography thought-through or more intuitive? Do your pictures depend on your experience or do you just go exploring?

April 29, 2020
Ian Roper and North Crag Eliminate

How a photograph both frightened and excited me when I first saw it. Can photographs really have that sort of an impact?

November 27, 2018
Denis Thorpe and Hebden Bridge

How a black and white picture of Hebden Bridge by Denis Thorpe in the Guardian in 1978 still influences how I take photographs today.

October 29, 2018
Contract or assumption: what do I owe the viewer?

Is it realistic to expect a photographer to concern himself with his viewers expectation about the nature of photography?

October 9, 2018
Don’t ask me about my camera settings

When you start out it sometimes feels like other photographers are deliberately hiding the details of their craft from you. It takes a little time to realise that the most important feature of the camera is the viewfinder.

March 16, 2018
Pose questions, don’t provide answers

In a blink this book by Henry Carroll, apparently for beginners, with pages of detail on how to choose shutter speeds and apertures resolved how I should be taking photographs for maximum impact.

July 31, 2017

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