Photography Techniques - Fuel your inspiration

This blog post is to help you see why videos are a powerful way not only to learn photography techniques but also to boost one’s creativity.

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Photography is a diverse art, comprising a score of photography techniques, approaches and tricks you are unlikely to find anywhere else. Like painting or sculpture, it makes the most of various manners, means, equipment and materials – this can prove most lucrative for your creativity. Since you won’t receive two similar results by using completely different techniques, learning more about other methods and incorporating them into your creative process is an excellent opportunity to boost your inspiration and develop your unique artistic vision.

Photography in fact it is an art and a science. An art because it is an expression of one’s feelings and a science because there is a technical aspect that needs to be grasped to pursue one’s artistic vision.

For an avid or aspiring photographer, some of the traditional ways of learning this science – meaning the special photography techniques - has been through contact with more experienced photographers, their workshops, magazines, books and online forums that bring photographers in contact with experts. In these cases the photographer also seeks his topic of interest and keeps abreast of it. But an emerging trend in learning this art cum science is online videos -videos that can be viewed by the photographer any time he wishes to learn, access it as many times as he wants, at the comfort of his desk, without having to travel a mile. Also the visual impact of videos tends to be much higher than descriptive text and illustrated pictures when it comes to a visual art like photography. When the impact of these videos is combined with the reach of the internet, we have a compelling learning medium. We have FotoTV !

FotoTV offers a large collection of videos on all aspects of photography and a forum to connect with other photographers, thereby making it a ‘must have’ resource for aspiring amateurs and semi professionals. We firmly believe that every single photography trick and technique out there deserves attention and should be revealed to whoever is willing to learn. If it actually works, that is. The variety and diversity of content accessible to a FotoTV subscriber through these videos is undeniable. Each video serves as source of inspiration, information or instruction. They provide a photographer a subtle push or nudge to try something new. The other attractive feature of FotoTV is the new videos released every week and the news show that is brought out periodically.

Best of all is the sheer variety of the material on offer. We feature films on general and specialized topics. Subjects range from interviews with master photographers, like Elliot Erwitt, Poalo Roversi, Joel Meyerwitz, 'how to videos' on lighting, film speed, biographical pieces on photographers such as O E Hoppé and even topics such as collecting photographs and books.

We love all kinds of photography: black and white, analog, digital, large-scale – none of those should be disregarded on one’s grand quest for inspiration and finding their own, unique perspective on all the beautiful people and things in the world. Photography instructions that we’ll be delivering through our videos reflect the milestones, which were passed during our long, tiresome yet captivating journey of self-expression. We hope they will prove useful not only to us, but also our viewers.

There's a constant flow of new videos to fuel your inspiration.

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