Learning Photography

I have been reading some books on Teaching Photography.

They have been very interesting.

A lot of what I do/ know/ practice in my teaching has been confirmed by the thoughts and essays in the books.

Photography has two components to it.

The technical and the artistic.

The Technical part of photography is very important, and needs to be mastered in order to be a good photographer.
Modern cameras make it easy to deal with the technical aspects, but due to their complexity, the modern digital camera is more difficult to master.

The limitations of film, and film cameras made the masterery of the technical side of photography easier.

The artisitic side of photography is hard ( for me) to teach.  This is what I am working on, how to teach photographers how to see.

With the complexity of digital cameras, most photographers worry about f-stops, ISO, white balance, etc, and don't look at what they should be exploring as photographers.

Stay tuned as I explore this further.