Become a Good Photographer, Part Six: Don’t Learn From Teachers

There is no shortage of people eager to tech you photography online these days. There are probably many tens of thousands of videos on YT. Maybe millions of tutorials about everything touching photography. But the vast majority will be useless…
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Become a Good Photographer, Part Six: Don’t Learn From Teachers

◈ Become a Good Photographer, Part Six: Don’t Learn From Teachers

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The Life of Others

I took this photo a good while back. I was arriving in Paris by train, and a commuter train overtook us (for some reason I was allegedly in…

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Shooting Raw Is About Insecurity, Not Possibilities

The justification photographers reach for when defending raw files is technical: more latitude, recoverable highlights, adjustable white balance. Sound in principle, largely irrelevant in practice for photographers making…

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Paws in the sand

I posted this photo last week as my contribution to Aminus3’s photo prompt: minimal. I thought I might as well explain it here.

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