introducing Photo 101

I’m putting my years of education experience to use and I’m pretty excited about it.

I have a lot of experience teaching people things. I’ve worked as a professor at Boston and Suffolk Universities and taught photography and design to high school students. I really love teaching things but I also really love making things which has led me to focus my career more on the making side. That being said, I have developed a lot of curriculum on teaching photography and I think it might be worth sharing some of that hard work!

As much as I’d love you all to hire me to photograph every part of your lives, I’d like even more if you started trying to take beautiful photos on your own. Our access to the ease in which we can use our phone cameras has lead to image libraries full of half blurry shots and terrible compositions, this makes me cringe! The photography of the past, think our parents generations, were full of dreamy film shots of our childhoods. Moody images of a grandparent on the beach or artfully crafted candids of kids on their birthday. I am eager to bring that attention to detail and craft back. I believe that teaching people how to use the technology they have in a more artful way is a good first step. That way we can all have photos we actually want to keep and print and pass down. Not just 1 bajillion (that’s a word) files filling up our harddrives never to be seen again.

So, here it goes. I’ll be posting bi-weekly Photo 101 lessons here and sending them out to my newsletter friends once a month. You can expect short tid-bits on the foundations of good composition, editing techniques, technical advice, tricks to taking better images on your phone and even some freebie presets to help take your images up a notch.

Thanks for reading the first Photo 101 post! Up next I’ll be giving you all a good ol’ history lesson. I promise it won’t be boring. See you soon!