Photography Tutorials On Youtube

As a photography teacher, it kind of cheeses me off that when people go online wanting to improve their photography, there is 100 times more information on how to edit your photos in Photoshop/Lightroom, than there is on how to take a better photo in the first place. I don’t pretend for a moment that I don’t edit my photos (I shoot in RAW so it comes with the territory). But beginners would prefer to learn camera skills before they get to the computer.

I have started working on a series of short videos on Youtube called “How I Took This Photo.” It works on a simple premise…one photo per video, with a look at the techniques and camera settings that went into taking it.

Here’s the link to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyJvGWGIerF9ugbFnxUIAUvAJoj9S_BTF

Or, you can go straight to my full Youtube channel to see all my videos including my tour presentations: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVtZiFKWtHzNuC7HqVB1Hww?

I hope you enjoy them and please subscribe to my channel so you can see all the new videos as they are released.

Great Day For Student And Teacher

One of the great things about being a photography teacher is the great experiences I sometimes get to share with the people I teach. I taught an afternoon of one-on-one tuition yesterday. I do that occasionally for people who can’t make it to my regular scheduled workshop, or for people who have already done it and want help with something a bit more specialised. We met at Coolum for an afternoon photographing birds in flight. I have to admit I did not have high hopes as I had been to the exact same spot the day before and seen almost nothing. But within minutes we could see there was a lot more activity, in particular from a pair of White Bellied Sea Eagles.

We picked a spot near where they were circling, and after only a few minutes, an osprey landed on a branch just below our vantage point.

I think we could have declared the afternoon a success right there, but the show wasn’t over yet. The next time the eagle came past, the territorial Osprey flew out to try and frighten it off, and then followed a mid-air battle that was exciting to watch.

I call these “David Attenborough moments,” where you get to witness something with your own eyes you usually expect to see on wildlife specials on TV.

The photos I took were hardly world-class, but it was an experience to remember nevertheless.