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Street Photography – Portobello Road
The colourful and eclectic Portobello Road in West London has always been a great magnet for photographers and a recent http://www.phototuition.net training booking for Matt Thomas who lives in the area gave us the opportunity to base our practice shooting there. The … Continue reading
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Photographing Movement
When photographing a fast moving car, motorcycle or even a runner the DSLR gives us the option to creatively show movement and enhance the image with a sense of speed. The shutter priority setting on the camera’s Mode dial (S on … Continue reading
Close up at Kew Gardens
During our tuition sessions (www.phototuition.net) one of the places we visit most frequently is Kew Gardens. At first sight one would see Kew as an absolute mecca for photographers but shooting there can be difficult. So much is crammed in … Continue reading
How to create those blurry backgrounds
As in the three images in the post below! The single greatest advantage of the Digital SLR with it’s large image sensor over the pocket camera with it’s tiny sensor its ability to defocus backgrounds. Immediately we blur the background … Continue reading
Beautiful black and white photography
It’s amazing the enduring power of black and white photography, not suprising though because once you remove all those sugary brain satisfying colours the true emotions and textures of an image come to the fore. Think of the iconic images … Continue reading
Hi, I’m John Perkins and I run Phototuition photography courses in West London.
The picture on the left shows me with my trusty old Canon 5D, the picture was taken by one of my students.
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