Ken Storch Photo Blog – All Things Photographic, All Thoughts Photographic
Teaching Photography classes? Here’s how to do more and better. Enhance your courses! Be popular! Get better students! Create more interesting lessons! Save time, effort and money! Be sparkling in dark rooms!
Students are always providing excuses as to why they can’t… something.
I’m proud to announce a fine new entry into the competition in the ‘Best Original Excuse Delivery Method in an Advanced Photography Class’ category!
Read More “The Drunk Napkin Excuse – Nomination for the Student Hall of Fame” »
Looking for a new photo project? Need an idea for a school assignment? Got photographer’s block?
Anthropomorphic photography just might be your solution. Watch out for people!
A review of the book “A Short Course in Digital Photography” by Barbara London and Jim Stone, Prentice Hall, ISBN-10: 0205645925, ISBN-13: 978-0205645923
Photographers, students, and teachers are always asking me for book recommendations on digital photography and for tips on improving their photography technique. Are you looking for such a book? Is this latest offering by authors Barbara London and Jim Stone, “A Short Course in Digital Photography” the best book for you too?
This is a practical list, in a chart, of F-stops, Shutter Speeds, and ISO settings showing the one third (1/3) stop and one half (1/2) stop increments as well as the whole stop settings. It is intended to help understanding of all the in between numbers for photographers, and students of photography.
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Need a photography project? Stumped for new ideas? Looking for inspiration? Things are looking up!
This very morning there was an unexpectedly gray cloud cover when I got up.
While not especially photogenic (from where I stood, visually and emotionally?) it reminded me of another morning sky which I shot from this location.
Read More “Why take color pictures of a black & white sky? Why photograph the sky?” »
Here is Part 2 of: Make Photoshop Work for You – Best Photoshop Cool Tips – The Menu Bar (Part 1 is back over here ) Layer is the powerful area of Photoshop which allows you to affect different things about your image separately form the other parts. How this is done will take at…
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