Photo Challenge

Car Details | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t…
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Social Media tips with Memory Gate

Create Custom Facebook Timeline Covers with PicMonkey

One of the easiest way to get your Facebook follower’s attention is through images and one of the most important images on your business or personal page is your timeline cover. As it is sized at at tricky 851px x 315px you might find it hard to find the right images to represent your brand so a collage is certainly the way to go. You might also want to add some text in their too…
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Photo Challenge

Spiders, Snails and Slugs | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t…
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The Baby Photographer

Photography Activities for Kids: Creating Patterns

Learning about photography isn’t just about understanding things like ISO and shutter speed, it should also be about fun. Last week I came across an ebook from Purple Chameleon Books (their first ebook in fact) called Photography Activities for Kids: Creating Patterns. Now I must admit I did have an inkling to what might be inside the book as I know the author and we had previously discussed…
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Photo Challenge

Signs of Autumn | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t…
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Photography Basics With Memory Gate

Juxtaposition | Photography Basics

Juxtaposition is the art placement of two subjects to create contrast or to compliment each other. It can either be intentional or accidental and more often than not its intentions can be subtle. To see a reoccurring example of juxtaposition just open any newspaper. Headlines and images are designed to compliment each other but sometimes editors add in other non-related images…
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Negative Space | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t…
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Photo Challenge

Journeys | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t…
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Photography Basics With Memory Gate

Subject Placement | Photography Basics

How a subject is framed in an image really does show the difference between an amateur happy snap and a considered and more “professional” photograph. Years ago when I worked on cruise ships we had to photograph thousands of people in similar situations exactly the same way. Even though we were using digital cameras there was no time to crop or edit the pictures before we printed…
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