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By Susan Olson, Colorado Mountain College, CO, student of Buck Mills

4Technique Education…Tools

“To a child with a new hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

Anonymous

 

At the beginning of this chapter we need to say that while the chapter is centered on technique, many of the discussions are equally applicable to areas of instruction that are more cognitive in concept. Unlike learning in other disciplines, learning in photography is heavily technique involved, and all theory and history come back to the application of technique. So while several parts of this chapter do not specifically address technique, it is always there.

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