Photo Challenge

Sunset | 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…
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ISO | The Exposure Triangle

In our last post Learning about Exposure I talked about the Exposure Triangle. One of the three elements of that is ISO. ISO (Which stands for International Standards Organization) is the measure of sensitivity that your camera has to light. In a way, this is a bit of a throwback to the film days and to be honest, not a completely standardised measurement in terms of quality. It is…
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Learning about Exposure

If you are going to learn photography basics then there’s a few simple fundamentals that you need to understand. The first is to answer the question ‘What is Photography?’ If you’re looking for a philosophical answer to that question then read Towards a Philosophy of Photography By Vilém Flusser Otherwise think of photography as nothing more than…
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Photography basics FREE online course

Welcome to our first photography basics blog post at London Mums. Every other week we’ll be going through some photo fundamentals to help you go from shooting everything in blind automatic mode to awesome photographer (or close enough). To compliment these posts we also have a fortnightly weekly photo challenge. Every other week we’ll set a theme and your homework for…
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