Seeing what Develops

Emma Davies – A Year with my camera

Surprisingly, recently I have actually felt the need to learn about the different things my camera can do. Chris is great, but maybe not the best at teaching as he is completely in the ‘zone’ and fully immersed in any task he is doing – I’m like the annoying five year old tugging at his arm for attention! In order to remedy this I have signed up for the free email photography course run by Emma Davies – A Year with my Camera. It started in September and as usual I am already 2 weeks behind so have now bought the accompanying workbook to ensure I keep up! Two lessons in and I am now somewhat of an expert (!) in aperture and managed to obtain the correct results with my f2.8 setting – large aperture – small depth of field – blurry background – I was really impressed! Lesson 1 was a revelation – who knew the tricks your camera was up to! It looks like it is going to be a great tool to help me improve and as so many people who are doing the course feel the need to share all of their attempts it is a big help in assessing how you are actually doing. Check Instagram for the #ayearwithmycamera hashtag (although you won’t find any of mine!)

​Viv.