{"id":3208,"date":"2012-10-21T22:57:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T03:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:16:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:16:14","slug":"863-new-photo-class-experience-and-some-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/21\/863-new-photo-class-experience-and-some-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"#863 New photo class experience &#8211; process of photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/21\/863-new-photo-class-experience-and-some-comments\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>In October one of our <a title=\"Ottawa photo workshop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/workshops-courses\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fworkshops-courses%2F','Ottawa+photo+workshop')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regular photo course<\/a> participants asked for a specific photo session. She had done well in photo courses and understood photo concepts. Where she wanted was help on the process of taking a photo.<\/p>\n<p>She suggested that she shadow me on a simple photo assignment. I was to do some shooting and talk through every aspect of what I was doing from:<br \/>\n\u2022 pre planning<br \/>\n\u2022 equipment selection<br \/>\n\u2022 approaching &amp; evaluating\u00a0the &#8216;assignment&#8217;<br \/>\n\u2022 selecting specific equipment<br \/>\n\u2022 evaluating and setting exposure<br \/>\n\u2022 shooting, angles and approach<br \/>\n\u2022 assessment<br \/>\n\u2022 edit<br \/>\n\u2022 self critique<\/p>\n<p>We went to the Byward Market and spent a couple of hours shooting, editing and critiquing my process and work on a mini photo class.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Process of Photography\" src=\"http:\/\/www.HarryNowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/HarryNowell.com-1788b.jpg\" alt=\"Process of Photography\" width=\"432\" height=\"288\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Process of Photography<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>What happened?<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nWell, I&#8217;ll let Madeleine say:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Harry &#8211; yesterday morning I got out of bed and made it to the Champlain bridge before sunrise. This picture (below) is not perfect but I had fun going through the exercise of adjusting the ISO, shutter speed and aperture while the light kept changing. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If it had not been of the two hour safari we did together in the Byward Market going through the process step by step I don&#8217;t think I would have even attempted this morning&#8217;s adventure. Thanks to you I don&#8217;t feel overwhelmed by the technical aspects of photography any more and I am now confident enough to go out, take pictures and learn.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Merci, Madeleine!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Process of photography\" src=\"http:\/\/www.HarryNowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/MadeleineBphoto.jpg\" alt=\"Process of photography\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Process of photography<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Photography is a challenging adventure if you are looking to improve your photos beyond snapshots! Madeleine has done well and her photos are improving nicely over the last year!<\/p>\n<p>Interested in a customized\u00a0<a title=\"Ottawa photo class\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/workshops-courses\/custom-photo-courses\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fworkshops-courses%2Fcustom-photo-courses%2F','Ottawa+photo+class')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mini course<\/a> to explore the process of taking a photo? It helped Madeleine and has helped others. <a href=\"mailto:harry@harrynowell.com\">Contact us<\/a> if you want to learn more about the process!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet In October one of our regular photo course participants asked for a specific photo session. She had done well in photo courses and understood photo concepts. Where she wanted was help on the process of taking a photo. She <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/21\/863-new-photo-class-experience-and-some-comments\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2012%2F10%2F21%2F863-new-photo-class-experience-and-some-comments%2F','Continue+reading+%26rarr%3B')\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5960,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions\/5960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}