Practicing your craft

There are a number of ways to improve your photography. Read little, books or magazines either way can help improve your photography. 

Practice is one of the best methods. If we aspire to deliver the most professional results we possibly can, then we need to practice. 

A professional is eomeone who practices their craft. Doctors and lawyers for instance. They're always learning. They're always improving. That's how they become so good and how they command such high fees for their services. Photography is no different.

If you don't practice you won't improve. I can honestly say that I go out to take images now with a view to capturing different and better ones to the ones I've already taken. Someone once said when asked that the best picture they've taken is 'The next one'. It's a great approach to image capture.


Another form of inspiration is to view other photographers work. Try not to copy it, but it can give you ideas and inspiration for your own work and projects.


I came a cross a great piece of work the other day that I wanted to share with you. Check out the site of Kieran Doherty if you get the chance. In particular his Wooton Bassett project is both poignant and inspiring. 

It's a great example (In my view) of a project that tells a story and contains some truly great images. It a great piece of photojournalism.  This link http://www.kierandoherty.com/#/Essays%20/Wootton%20Bassett/1 takes you through to the project, just cut and paste it into your browser. Be sure to check out the rest of his site as well as it contains some terrific work.