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Photoshelter Have a Great Little Free eBook on Promoting Yourself with Photobooks

Photoshelter Have a Great Little Free eBook on Promoting Yourself with Photobooks

Photoshelter have a variety of educational material to assist photographers. One is a little 23-page PDF eBook on Marketing Yourself With Photo Books that is well worth giving them an email address to receive. This is a fruitful area for photographers (and other creatives) and this book is well worth the read. Photoshelter’s other free guides can be found here.   … Read entire article »

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Infrared Photography Webinar

I will be doing a 1.5 hour webinar on how to do digital infrared photography on Wednesday March 9 at 1pm CST time in the US. This is 6am Thursday 10th of March Australian Eastern Summer Time. The webinar covers what you need to do infrared with a digital camera, tricks of exposure and how to process the resulting images. The cost is US$47 for the one webinar or there are packages to do more than one webinar, as this is part of a Digital Art Summit with many webinars. Details are on this web page http://www.digital-art-summit.com/membership/artists/wayne-cosshall/. Recordings of the webinar are also available for purchase. … Read entire article »

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Changing Educational Paradigms

I came across an amazing video on Youtube. It is an animation done to a speech by Sir Ken Robinson. Now I had heard him speak before and can only say I agree fully with him about the complete stupidity of the way we educate our kids and even, since I’ve spent most of my life in adult education, the way we educate adults. It has a lot of relevance to those in the creative disciplines, since we suffer the most in conventional education. His book: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative is an amazing book and something every educator should read. A first class thinker and communicator. … Read entire article »

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The Keys to getting the most out of photography and art study

Many students doing a photography or fine art study program fail completely to get out of it all they could. Here is how to improve on this. During the course of a semester of study, students are caught up in the tasks of note taking and doing projects/assignments. This dominates all thinking: the looming deadlines and examinations (if the course has them). This keeps their focus on doing what has to be done and not on drawing personal insights from the work they are doing. One way to overcome this is for the student to take the opportunity of the breaks and holidays to sit down with their visual diaries and assignments and reflect on the work they have done, what they have learning and what they want to pursue from there. … Read entire article »

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The Value of Photography Events: Finding the Unexpected

My latest post on the HP Pro Photo blog covers photography events and conferences and how to get the most out of them. … Read entire article »

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Rosanna, Victoria – 29/07/09 – Rosanna Fire Station Community House

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Rosanna, Victoria – 27/07/09 – Rosanna Fire Station Community House

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Rosanna, Victoria – 25/07/09 – Rosanna Fire Station Community House

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Rosanna, Victoria – 23/07/09 – Rosanna Fire Station Community House

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Trentham East, Victoria – 18/07/09 – Gold Street Studios

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Lifelong Learning in Photography

My most recent column on the HP Professional Photography blog looks at developing a lifelong learning philosophy. You can read it over on the HP site. … Read entire article »

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Technology Focus at School Helps Girls See The Big Picture

The college’s commitment to interactive teaching through projection technology has already increased student collaboration and interest as well as inspiring teachers and enabling them to revolutionise the way they deliver information. Press Release When it comes to the education of our nation’s children and expandingthe minds of tomorrow’s leaders, it is not a subject to be takenlightly.  Young minds are best captured through inspirationalteaching and for Penrhos College, a leading girls’ school in Como,Western Australia, InFocus technology is bringing foreign lands,complex learning and memorable experiences to life in the classroomwith exceptional results. The installation of the new state-of-the-art multimedia resources hasintegrated technology into everyday tutoring, with a successfulnotebook computer program and teachers using big screen viewing fromInFocus to engage students and present the world more visually tothem.  Pupils are also gaining confidence, as … Read entire article »

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