Torres del Paine, Chilean Patagonia, 2007



Workshops

Torres del Paine National Park, Chilean Patagonia, April 2008.

In one of the most photogenic parts of the world, I will be conducting a photographic workshop, limited to just eight participants in April 2008. Please follow the link to workshops at the top of the page for more information.

Robert Capa's war photographs are a perfect example. Technically they're blurred, fuzzy and taken on films that are poor by today's standards, yet his images contain a depth and impact that overcome any technical limitations of the equipment that was available to him at that time. This was a man who was obsessed with making powerful images.

I believe that if you want to take great photos, you have to invest in finding and developing your style of photography. If you have a desire to create strong images you will do so no matter what the technical limitations are that you are faced with. In fact, often it is these limitations that provide us with the need to experiment, to be inventive and extract as much out the equipment as we can. In other words less is more.

Find a system that gives you a good starting base and work with that system. As you become more comfortable with it, using it will become second nature (and subsequently less of a barrier) allowing you to get closer to and improve upon the art of photography.

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