What Helps?
Photographer Harry Callahan, who taught at Rhode Island School Design in the ’60s and ’70s, was rumored to begin a class by deliberately tearing up a twenty-dollar bill (a good sum in those days) and send it sailing in pieces out the window, while saying, “This is photography.”
The lesson is clear: photography asks for resources, time, and supportive conditions. Fortunately, the cost of entry for digital photography is affordable. Today’s cell phone cameras have evolved to be of very high-quality and entry level prosumer cameras can be purchased for several hundred dollars. Tablet or cell phone apps that allow you to edit photos can be purchased for a nominal fee. Even the high-end Adobe programs for the desktop, Lightroom and ...
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