Safari-a Monograph. David duChemin’s latest superb eBook
Photographers are normally highly visual. Kind of obvious statement, but I have noticed with amusement and self-observation that many male photographers are like me: They love the gear and see everything, at least initially, as logical or technical steps that need be taken and once secure in the technical processes, they relax and allow the [...]
Cairo Photo Group is launched: School Studio, Tours and Services
It has been a busy week., because on top of my day job as an ecommerce strategy consultant, a number of fun photography projects have been brewing
The early part of the week was consumed with launching Focus for Humanity – a new Not For Profit foundation that supports – that was the subject of my last post.
The middle part of the week has been taken up with writing a guest post for Matt Brandon’s Digital trekker blog this Friday all about the inspiration behind Focus For Humanity and how to help unlock value for organizations in using images and making plans to do a trip down the Nile in a couple of weeks with Matt when he visits Egypt to start planning some new workshops and tours here.
I took that image – inspiration or plagiarism?
One of the challenges that I guess many of us face on a photo workshop is finding the unique angle or shot that allows our own style or approach to be translated into a compelling image, especially when 8 other of your new found photo friends are standing next to you trying to create the [...]
How to create order from disorder through split toning
I am slowly – all too slowly – working my way through the 5000+ images that I took in Italy earlier this month during the Italy Within The Frame workshop with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman, and one thing is for certain is it has helped me to optimize my Lightroom workflow! Most of the [...]
Italy Within The Frame – Day 9 – Burano
Burano is a small island on the outer reaches of the Venetian Archipelago that few people bother to visit. The nearer and more famous island of Murano with its tradition of glass blowing and the manufacture of its distinctive colored glass objects d’arts, seems to be more of a magnet for the tides of tourists [...]
Italy Within The Frame-Day 8-Venice
Venice is a city in trouble. Few of us will have failed to read over the years the stories that Venice is sinking. This once grand trading city state, that dominated merchant trading for centuries, and yet has manged to retain much of its medieval and renaissance character today, is fighting a losing battle against [...]
Italy Within The Frame – Day 7 – To Venice by Train
Crossing Italy by train today as we move from Camogli to Venice has given me the chance to catch up on a preliminary sort of the nearly 5000 images I took last week. It is odd to review a body of work taken over such a short period of time and to begin to see [...]
Italy Within the Frame – Day 6 – Portofino
The Italian Riviera has for years been a playground for the rich and famous. The once quiet fishing villages where time and modern convenience had for so long passed by without the most casual of glances, have been transformed into chic resorts, full of designer boutiques, restaurants and bars advertising or sponsored by a leading [...]
Italy Within The Frame – Day 5 – San Fruttuoso
There is something magical about arriving at a new place by boat. I am not sure whether it is the stirring of an evocative past of transatlantic steamers voyaging to the New World or the throwback to family holidays where the ferry – however rusty and battered – magically transported us from reality to vacation [...]
Italy Within The Frame- Day 4 -Camogli
As we left Monterosso for Camogli this morning it seemed that we were leaving behind a landscape of opportunity, color and precariously perched towns that seemed to be just a momentary lapse away from sliding into the rocky Ligurian coastline. How wrong can you be – well about the color and opportunity at least! As [...]
Italy within the Frame – Day 1 Genova
The threatened rain had disappeared to leave a warm spring morning as the Italy within the Frame group set out for our first full day of photo workshop, in Genova, Italy. David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman are organized a very gentle paced walk around the old streets of Genova, helping direct us through the narrow [...]
Italy within the Frame – Day minus 1
The months of waiting for the chance to spend a week in Italy, immersed in exploring my own personal photographic vision “within the frame”, have finished and we are now in Genova, with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman. This morning – before the main group arrived – I went out with Jeffrey Fielding to wander [...]
Giants Causeway within the frame
With only a fortnight to go before I head to Italy to participate in a week-long workshop with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman, it was important for me to start thinking about landscape photography again. The workshop, although called Italy with in the Frame, promises to be a healthy mix of street portraiture and landscape [...]
Why location, luck and gear is not enough
When I first started taking photography seriously about 18 months a go I naively thought that taking a powerful portrait – particularly travel or street portraiture – was really just because the fulltime photographer was always in an exotic place, with a great camera and of course in those type of locations you really just [...]
Slowing down with Ami Vitale
In my previous post, The Compelling Image Portfolio review with Ami Vitale , I detailed how it felt to have my portfolio reviewed by world renown photographer Ami Vitale, the process that we went through during the review and what I took away from the session. This is first in a series of posts that explore [...]
Graft and vision
I learned the hard way this week that it really isn’t about the kit. It really is about the years of experience, the years of study at the school of hard knocks, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. I wrote recently how through a combination of factors my 5Dmk2 and f2.8 70-200 lens and I [...]
The Inspired Eye – latest ebook from David duChemin
David duChemin has just released his latest eBook, The Inspired Eye, Vol.I, Notes on Creativity for Photographers. As the title suggest this is first of a two volume set about the creative process, and as such is not at all like the last 4 eBooks that David has produced. These previous eBooks have focused primalrily [...]
Youth, Wisdom and Great Photos – Eric Ryan Anderson
Eric Ryan Anderson is a truly interesting man…..and not just because we share a name! He is a commercial photographer base in Brookyln, NY whose work has been published in Italian Vanity Fair, Vogue Hommes, Computer Arts, Sherman’s Travel, Pollstar, ENVY, D Magazine, Dallas Observer and National Geographic Traveler. All well and good you say, [...]
New depth of field Interview
Matt Brandon has just released a new a great new episode of his Depth of Field series – interviewing David duChemin during their recent workshop, Lumen Dei. This great series of audio podcasts – also available via iTunes (just search for Depth of Field) – interviews working photographers and give you a beyond the scenes [...]
Chasing The look – 10 Ways to Improve the Aesthetics of Your Photographs
That clever man David DuChemin has been at it again. Not content with writing a third book, doing publicity around the second, blogging daily, podcasting frequently and twittering multiple times a day – oh and celebrating his wedding anniversary – he has somehow found time to author another eBook. “Chasing The Look, 10 Ways to [...]
VisionMongers – Making a life and living in Photography
VisionMongers is the Second of David DuChemin’s books. The first, “Within the Frame” – has quickly become one of the best ever selling photographic book on “Why” to take photographs, and deservedly has raised David’s profile, reputation and following globally hugely. David’s passion is not the “how to ” photograph something, but the “why to”. [...]
Creating stronger images through visual mass
The recent release of “Drawing the Eye – Creating Stronger Images through Visual Mass” – is David DuChemin’s third part of his ebook series. This one is equally as good as the other two and continues David’s theme that “Why” rather than” How” is the question to be asking as you shoot pictures. “Drawing the [...]
Perfection is not just a snap
I regularly look at work of photographers that I admire and wonder how they got such an amazing image. As I read more and more, and talk with pro travel photographers so I understand more that they are using all the same tools as me, going through all the same angst (well may I have [...]
Ten more with David duChemin
David does it again. Following on from his first eBook “Ten”, David has scored a hit with “Ten More” – an additional 10 ideas to help photographers of ll expereince levels. In true David fashion he combines his extraordinary ability to communicate his passion and his ideas in a manner that engages and encourages, without [...]
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