Why the new blog?

June 28, 2008 | Category: General

I’ve been taking photographs with interest now for about two years and I have a photoblog over at http://www.arickmann.co.uk, so why am I starting a new photography blog?

This blog will be a dissection of the techniques I use when I am taking my photographs.

I am by no means an expert; nor am I the type of photographer who has thousands of pounds worth of fancy gear and who spends all his time planning trips and every weekend waiting for the perfect sunset / sunrise etc, but I think there is room to examine the ideas behind photographs and how they got the way they are. This isn’t a masterclass but an honest account of arriving at a nice picture.

I will also include some pictures that just didn’t work out, because there are more of these than anything else and it is often the case that you compose an image using the well known principles and they just aren’t any good when you get them home.