24/07/2021
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Photo Tips, Venture Blog
Are There “Magic Numbers” in Photography?
"What settings did you use...
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03/02/2021
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Photo Tips, Venture Blog
In Pursuit of Imperfection
Let me tell you a story. Some years ago, while running a photography tour with a great group of photography enthusiasts, the topic of photographic perfection popped up. "I'm still chasing the perfect sunset photo," one of our group bewailed. "I see so many of them out...
05/01/2021
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Photo Tips, Venture Blog
Audience, Purpose, Style
The holy grail for many photographers is to be able to develop a distinctive Style. But the idea of a "style" seems elusive and perhaps a little too abstract for most people to comprehend. What does it mean to have a style? Let's look at this word...
22/11/2020
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Lightroom, Photo Tips, Venture Blog
Lightroom Tip: Retaining Camera Profiles on Import
Here is a tip for those who shoot in RAW image format and who would like Lightroom to retain the picture's profile (also called Picture Style or Image Style, depending on camera you use) when it imports the picture into Lightroom Classic (note: this features...
17/09/2020
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Be like Zen artists…
You may have heard of the American artist and photographer Saul Leiter, whose photography in the 1940s and 1950s was credited to have brought about the New York School of street photography. Leiter once said in a conversation: “I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt...
12/04/2020
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Letters from the Inside…
Social distancing and self-isolation seem to be the buzzwords of the moment, as are words like closures and suspensions of service. The last two weeks have seen tremendous changes to our lifestyle and it’s hard not to feel apprehensive and uncertain when things are changing and...
27/03/2020
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60 Second Lightroom Edit #3
This 60 Second Lightroom Edit is a landscape taken in the sand dunes of the Western Sahara in Morocco. It was taken early in the afternoon, so the light is harsh, directional and also a little flat in terms of colour. Let's see what 60...
25/03/2020
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Seeing, Feeling and Picture Making
I’ve been going on long, meandering walks lately. Mostly to take me away from the computer where I have been dealing with the fallout from Covid-19 cancelling my photography tours this year. A lot of work goes into planning and running photography tours and a...
23/03/2020
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Lightroom, Photo Tips, Venture Blog
60 Second Lightroom Edit #2
Today's 60 Second Lightroom Edit is a portrait, just for something different! The initial image is quite overexposed (which is why you should always shoot in Raw, so that you can recover overexposure/underexposure in your image). Let's see what 60 seconds in Lightroom Classic can...
22/03/2020
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Lightroom, Photo Tips, Venture Blog
60 Second Lightroom Edit #1
Of late, I've been thinking of how best to use the digital medium available to us to provide fun and useful content to customers and followers of Venture Photography Workshops and Tours. This is especially important now that we are in a period of social...