Photo Process is a series of video tutorials that shares a wide range of techniques, concepts and processes that I use every time I take a photograph. These processes have evolved over 40 years of photography and while they started in the darkroom, they have been fully adapted to a modern digital workflow.
When teaching photography, I find many students have great ideas, but don’t know how to implement them. Or they have great technical skills, but nothing to use them on! While I can help solve their immediate problems, the solution is relying on my skills, not theirs. And unfortunately it’s not possible to transfer all of my knowledge and experience in a few hours or even days.
I’m also asked, how do I seem to immediately know what to do when I’m faced with a subject? Why do I always seem to have a solution? The answer is my ‘database’ of skills and influences collected throughout my career. It’s my professional experience.
So how do I share this experience? The aim of Photo Process is to collect these skills, influences and experiences into a single location so they can be easily shared with photographers searching for their own answers. It’s a knowledge bank of what I use when I create my photographs, so if you like how I work, the answers are in here!
What's An Atelier? Traditionally, an atelier (French: [atəlje]) was the private workshop or studio of a professional artist, where a number of students worked under his or her watchful eye. Professional photographers used to learn like this as well - rather than attending a college or university, they would first work as an assistant in an established studio where knowledge and experience could be passed down. Photo Process is like an atelier in that the video tutorials are designed to provide the knowledge, while the portfolio review and print allow me to share my experience.