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Steve Davey is the author and principle photographer of the internationally bestselling BBC books: Unforgettable Places To See Before You Die and Unforgettable Islands to Escape to Before You Die. In the course of the last twenty years as a professional photographer and writer he has travelled to some 84 countries.
Steve has recently published Footprint Travel Photography. Widely hailed as the definitive guide to travel and location photography, this book covers everything that you could ever need to know about travelling with a camera.
Steve writes regular travel photography features for Wanderlust Magazine in the UK and Get Lost Magazine in Australia, and is the Photography Monthly Travel Photography Master. He has also lead a number of travel photography tours, including his own range of Better Travel Photography tours. There are few people with his experience of shooting on the road, and even fewer with the experience in explaining and teaching photography to people with a wide range of abilities, from absolute beginners to serious aspiring professionals.
Steve has used this experience to develop a series of courses which cover many of the issues which people struggle with, and present simple yet comprehensive solutions to dramatically improve their travel photography.
RAW Down The River
Much is spoken about RAW photography but many photographers don't understand it, or even fear it. Yet the RAW format is a tremendously versatile format which allows you far greater control over your pictures, and also offers the chance for far better quality images. RAW actually simplifies the picture-taking process, allowing you to make a lot of the decisions on a computer and not at the moment of picture takingThe RAW processing is analogous to using a photographic darkroom, and can be achieved in a few seconds. This course will look at shooting RAW and also at basic RAW processing options.
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Photography Courses with Steve Davey
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Mastering Composition
It doesn't matter what camera you have, you can drastically improve your photography by improving your composition. This course will explore all aspects of composition, to make your pictures more visually balanced and pleasing. But composition is about more than just how your pictures look: by changing the composition you can change the relationship between things in the frame, set up meaning and make your pictures more visually stimulating. Steve will comprehensively explain his theory of 'Mise en Scene' or the art of combining items in the frame to create more sophisticated images.
Better Travel Photography was created by Steve Davey to celebrate the art of travel photography and to help people improve their travel photography skills and get more out of their travels. Some of the highlights of the site are image galleries, travel photography features and 501 Travel Photography Tips. This site also features Steve's exclusive range of travel photography tours.
Photography For Writers
Many writers, whether they be working freelancers, ambitious staffers, aspiring professionals or personal bloggers, just don't get photography. At best they regard it as something to be done grudgingly – at worst they don't bother! But if you are a writer or a blogger having the ability to take adequate pictures will increase your income, get you more work and potentially drive more hits to your blog. This course will look at how to take better pictures in a range of scenarios, and then look at simple post-processing and how to caption and keyword pictures before looking at method of digital delivery.
Better Travel Portraits
Taking great shots of the people you meet on your travels a hard skill to learn, yet this workshop can take you through all of the technical, creative and practical decisions you will need to improve your travel portraits! We will start with an illustrated presentation, outlining the technical and creative decisions you will need to make when shooting a portrait. By making these decisions in advance - before you approach someone to ask permission – you can be more relaxed and creative. We will also look at the best ways to approach people and the mechanics of shooting different styles of portrait.
