Take, Make or Capture???
Does it really matter? I remember not so long ago there was a move by many photographers to stop using …
Amateur Professional Delusion Illusion
I’ve been pondering this piece for a while and wanted to share my thoughts on what may well be an …
Leaving room for the Mystery
This past week has been an educational one. Yet again my approach to a particular aspect of photography has …
Trusting the Process
End to end there’s probably five hours here. Five hours of working with the comma both in the meadowland of …
The Six Steps to Creative Mastery – 6: Telling your story
We’ve now come to the final piece of my Six Steps to Creative Mastery plan, the outline which makes up …
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The Six Steps to Creative Mastery – 5: What’s Your ‘Why’
As we near the end of this mini series on the 6 steps to mastery I’m going to talk a …
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The 6 Steps to Creative Mastery – 4: The Shoulders of Giants
This was a real learning for me and once I grasped the importance of it my creative output and quality …
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The 6 Steps to Creative Mastery – 3: Crafting the Shot
We’ve now explored the more fundamental aspects of creating the photograph and pieced together how the exposure triangle fits in …
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The Six Steps to Creative Mastery – 2: Find your Focus
Focus and Sharpness I’ve created The Call of The Muse specifically to deal with the deeper issues of creative and …
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The Six Steps to Creative Mastery – 1: Know Your Tools
The Most Basic Controls When I stepped onto my path as a photographer it was all very easy. I used …
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A Vision Realigned
I spied a chance to spend some quality camera time in an environment utterly alien to me with a vision …
‘There’s nothing new under the sun”
Chasing The New For us creatives there can be a temptation to forever chase the new, to seek out that …
The Pursuit
I used to find it odd that the words ‘creative’ and ‘pursuit’ are so often seen hanging out together. I …
Deepening Into The Craft
With the advent of digital and the proliferation of social media photography has become a creative tool that virtually everyone …
Ten Thousand Hours…
or the shot cut solution? Back in the days, when I was young, and had time to fritter away on …
Get it right in camera?
The Holy Grail I’ve paid scant regard to this oft quoted missive up until recently. Getting it right in camera …
What’s your Project?
My Pet Topics During my workshops I’m known for banging on about certain pet topics, in a lighthearted way of …
Appleby Etiquette
Pack Animals So how does it work in these situations, when photographers have the potential to outnumber the subjects? I …