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Happy New Year to all our students and friends! We wish all of you the best for 2011. We are pleased to announce our newly updated Freelance Photography Course for 2011. Freelance photography has moved on quite a lot since the previous update and these changes are all covered in the new online course. The [...]
Organised by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), the Environmental Photographer of the Year is an international showcase for the very best in amateur and professional environmental photography, and is one of the fastest growing photographic competitions in the world – receiving 4,500 entries from photographers in 97 countries in 2010. As [...]
Have you won the lottery or did your rich uncle leave you everything? If so then here is something that will put a dent in that wad; the Leica S2. This camera is one worth noting whether it ever becomes a success or not. For one it is a Leica, probably one of the most [...]
The amount of new DSLR cameras that come out is a steady stream to say the least. Canon are no strangers to marketing new upgraded models while the previous model hasn’t even left a dust ring on the store shelf. However with the Canon EOS 550D, there are some very good improvements and upgrades. Less [...]
The student gallery is a showcase of the best work produced by students. All images have been chosen by our tutors for the gallery from images submitted by students through their projects. Naturally these images are outstanding because they are selected from hundreds of project submissions. In fact only a handful of images are selected [...]
Cameras today do just about everything automatically except jump out of your bag and take the shot themselves, of course the technology is there to do that too! But with all this automation the full creativity and control of exposing an image can be lost. This is why at School of Photography, especially in our [...]
How accurately you focus an image can make or break the image, sometimes the moment is over as soon as it has begun thus preventing a second, more precise, shot. Today’s auto focus cameras are quite quick and accurate but the photographer must know how to use the cameras focusing system correctly. Most auto focus [...]