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The Key is Aesthetic Skill.

How many times do you walk away from a scene saying ‘I couldn’t see a good picture? The tourist location is generic by definition – everyone standing in the same spot will get the same photograph; but this does not mean it cannot become a great artistic photograph. The key is ‘What you do to the photograph’. We tend to stop short - expecting the camera to do all the work; create the finished image. This is totally unrealistic – the camera can only record what is in front of it.

You record the same photograph as everyone else – but you can create a different photograph to everyone else!

The Old Town Hall, Prague, Czech Republic. All the photos were taken on a one-week workshop in Prague.

The camera records. Photoshop creates.

‘Great’ pictures rarely ‘just happen’ - those are your lucky shots. There was a saying in my Reuters news photography days - ‘if you saw it, you missed it’ - by the time you set up, it was too late. It is the ability t...

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David Osborn is a professional photographer with 40 years of experience in hard news and corporate Photography and now teaches Photography and post-production full-time. As a personal tutor, David offers live online and in-person workshops teaching Artistic Knowledge, Photography Skills, and Photoshop Techniques to create beautiful, engaging travel and landscape Photography. David's philosophy is: 'If you know why pictures work,' you will know how to make pictures that work. How to put creativity back into Photography and gain creative satisfaction from Photography. My website, www.davidosbornphotography.com, explains much more.
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