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PHOTOGRAPHY BASICS in 10 MINUTES

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Learn the basics of photography in 10 minutes! Obviously, there's much more to photography, but if you can grasp ISO,...

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Experimenting Without A Notebook

Published 9/28/2023 in Kathy From KeppenArt

If you have been following my blog posts about the 52 Week Personal Art Challenge you may remember the notebook suggestion. The suggestion was to carry a notebook and write down what camera settings you are using when learning how to use the camera off the Auto program. In the past I would often take a quick shot of the ground when changing from one setting to the next. Since I wanted to...read more ❯

Week Three

Published 9/22/2023 in Kathy From KeppenArt

As this new-year long art challenge continues, so does my experimenting and learning about the different settings on my camera. I’ve been very frustrated that I have a single lens reflex camera with two lenses and an array of settings and I still see better photographs online that have been taken with phone cameras compared to many of my photographs. Having said that, I do realize...read more ❯

On Finding Inspiration

Published 9/15/2023 in The Art of Shelli Fitzpatrick

For an artist inspiration is so important, but there are times when it seems to be very hard to find. On days like that I find that I just need to step back from "the studio", which as a digital artist happens to be my computer screen and I will get outside and look at the sky. The first digital artworks I ever created were done from my photographs of the Oklahoma sky. It is a constant source...read more ❯