Ben Long The Practicing Photographer: Essays on Developing Your

Ben Long has spent his career as a photographer, teacher, and workshop leader, and his message has always been clear. If you want to become a better photographer, you have to think about practice. Musicians, dancers, actors and other artists incorporate practice into their work, yet most photographers talk more about camera settings and gear than they do about their practice. The Practicing Photographer is all about practice why it is so important, how to get started with it, how to use practicing to improve your skills, and how to evaluate the results of your own practice over time. Bens goal is to help you build your own successful practice, one that you can own, and one that produces clear results over time. This short book consists of 50 short essays split into seven sections, covering all aspects of the photographic process, from shooting to postproduction to building a portfolio of your best work. Ben also talks extensively about training your eye, not only to consistently see the world photographically, but as a route to discovering the unique characteristics of your way of seeing the world, so that you are expressing your own ideas rather than simply copying someone elses. Some of the other techniques youll discover in these pages includeLearning how to defeat the editors and other negative thought processes that you carry around in your head. Learning to combat boredom. Adapting to changes in your own interests and tastes, over time, and learning how those changes... | Ben Long The Practicing Photographer: Essays on Developing Your