photography
What to Stick on Your Wall?
Following on from one of Stu’s old posts, I recently decided to get a bunch of prints and canvases made to stick on our walls (now that we’re in the throes of redecoration!)
What's on Your Walls?
Seeing your own work writ large on the wall really is so much more satisfying than seeing it on a computer screen, and I would advise anyone to try it.
But a very talented photographer, who goes by the name of Ryan Hyde, raised an interesting point over on my Flickr stream. Apparently he was told by his art teacher that “to surround yourself with your own photography motivates you to only be as good as you have been”, and it’s actually better to surround yourself “with work that is greater than, or at least different from, yours” to generate new inspiration. › Continue reading
How To Survive Your First Wedding Shoot
So your friends have heard about your photography habit; they’ve seen what wonders you have presented to the world via your Flickr page, and now they’ve gone and done it… they’ve entrusted the most important day of their lives to you and you alone, and have asked you to take their wedding photos!
Don't worry - we'll do what we can to get you through the day! (Photo by Stuart Mackenzie)
Before you had the time to see sense you agreed, and now as the day draws near the vague niggling worry has built to a palpable gnawing of panic in your gut. There’s no getting out of it now, so let’s see if we can’t help relieve some of the worries and get you focused on the important things: › Continue reading
How Did You Learn?
Detention Time by S.Mackenzie (aka disco~stu)
Today I want to explore how you all learnt to use your camera and take good photographs. Photography in lots of ways is as much a science as it is an art form. Using a camera correctly and consistently to get great photos requires an understanding of photography that you’re not born with so how have you learnt it?
I’ve found that I’ve used a combination of resources to find out what I’ve needed to know. Mostly I’ve gathered information from reading (books and internet) and also by repeated trial and error and experimentation. I want to know from the options below which 3 methods you’ve found most effective? maybe elaborate on your answers in the comments and include any I’ve missed out.
If anyone has attended any photography courses please let us know how you found this experience. As this is something I’ve considered but so far not tried. Feel free to include links to good resources you’ve used.
Loading ...Everyone Has One….Right?
I’ve spent a little bit of time this week updating my personal website and portfolio. I’ve been struggling with how to lay things out and stuff so I spent a fair bit of time browsing other peoples sites for inspiration….that’s when it hit me!! Nearly all of the photographers I know have a website. In fact it seems almost everybody has a website these days.
I mean I’m obviously fairly involved in this site your reading right now, as is Paul, but we both have our own sites (mine ~ pauls) to showcase photographic work and handle what I guess you’d class as the business end of our photography. Likewise many of my contacts have either similar online portfolios of work or photographic blogs where they share their hobby.
So do you have one? What is the purpose of your site? Has it generated Clients? Is it just for Kicks? Drop a link in the comments so we can all take a peep.
If you haven’t got a website….what’s stopping you? there are plenty of photo blogging/sites and services available such as old favourites like wordpress.com and tumblr.com which offer free accounts and hosting and don’t require a degree in computer science to setup. If you are looking for inspiration check out our link section…We’ll add more to this list from the links you give us in the comments 
How Are We Doing?
So yesterday we here at photographywired hit our one month anniversary! woohoo!! OK so one month isn’t that impressive but during that time we’ve created 52 posts, served up not far short of 10,000 page views, made nearly 150 friends and followers on twitter, received just under 300 comments here on the site and 208 people have joined our flickr group and tonnes of you have added us to your RSS feeds or subscribed to our daily email update. That’s not a bad start and I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support on behalf of Paul and myself.
What’s next though? well that’s a good question…. We said this from the beginning but we do want this to be a site designed to cater for the needs of those who read it. So let us know how you think we are doing? What type of content do you find most interesting? what have we done well….or not so well? What do you want to see more of? Does the site work OK? Do you want to help contribute? Have you told all of your friends about us? Do we post enough content? Do we post too often or not often enough?
There is lots more excting stuff already in the works here at photographywired.com so stay tuned but in the meantime let us know your thoughts either in the comments or by email of how we are doing so far.
Do You Want Photography to be Your Job?
Work or Fun? Or Both?
Following a conversation I had with a fellow flickrite recently, I was curious as to the role each of us sees photography playing in our own lives in the future – from a financial point of view.
If photography is your passion would you love it to also be your job, or would that spoil the fun for you? Would you rather it just remain a hobby – an escape from the 9 to 5 world? Or maybe you’d like the odd paying gig, just to support your GAS habit? Answers on a postcard please (or you could just take part in the poll below – it’s up to you 
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Loading ...Colour Rules OK!
The use of colour in photography is one of the most powerful tools that a photographer has at his or her disposal. I’d say at times it even ranks above composition. Although, obviously the ideal is the perfect union of both colour and composition.
The correct use of colour can create something so striking that it’s impossible to ignore.
When thinking about colours in photos it’s important to understand why certain colours work together, and why others are just a bit… ‘meh’. The diagram below is a depiction of what is called in colour theory The Colour Wheel – it helps us to understand which colours work with which…
The Colour Wheel
Adventures in Pinhole Photography: No.1
I’ve wanted to have a go at pinhole photography for years now, but for one reason or another never got around to it. This year I’ve decided to take the bull by the horns and just damn well do it. But for my first adventure, rather than build my own camera from scratch, I decided to try out a self-assembly kit.
The one I plumped for is made by a company called Flights of Fancy, and I picked it up from RetroPhotographic for under £20. It contains everything (well, almost everything…) you need to both build the camera, and to take and develop photos with it – including clear and concise instructions! (the most important part)…
The Component Parts...
Step one, building the camera was a piece of cake. The grooved squares of wood all slot together to form a light tight box (which you can either glue or just hold together with the elastic bands provided). › Continue reading
