First Blog Entry – Hello!

Well, what can I say other than welcome to my first blog entry on my first blog on my first website. It’s taken long enough.  As this is appended to my website, this blog will generally be a commentary on matters photographic and, as I am a photography lecturer, occasionally the teaching of photography. So photography as a subject: my work, the work of others I admire, or whose work interests me.

Also technical matters. As a great believer that photographers and students, certainly those looking to work as photographers, not just waiting to be discovered as the next Robert Frank, Josef Koudelka or Martin Parr, should have some technical command of their discipline: how to achieve the best technical results, to light a subject, in digital post-production, in chemical printing; how to present their work effectively; how to expose their frames and control the image’s look with shutter speed, focus, lens selection, format selection etc. This may all seem obvious, but the skills of photography impact on the photographer’s ability to communicate and separate what they do from what anyone with a smartphone can do. So expect some entries about lighting and other technical stuff.

Sometimes, it may be about cats.

I will try and update this every few days (I know: they all say that) and will post links on Twitter and Facebook. I will add links for websites and articles that I think informative, entertaining and just to play a small role in contributing to the online communities that exist for photography.

Thanks for listening.

Paul