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Squidge is on special food at the moment so can't have chicken at lunchtime. I take her out for some training while J feeds the rest of them and then when we get back, she gets a Kong. She thinks she's getting something the others aren't and so she's all sorts of excited about every part of this...

Brill! I'm not an admin for the group, so I can't help approve you unfortunately, but they tend to be pretty quick at it. You guys get to hear this here first, but Amy's approved that I do a Zoom call or two for bronze level peeps during the course to talk over anything you want or need. I'll...

YAAAAY! It's a perfectly good camera for this course, and beyond to be honest. I bought my first pro lens (70-200mm f/2.8) to use on that body before I upgraded to a full frame body. Fab! Come in and introduce yourself when you get two minutes. We need more wordy people, Michelle and I need to...

Some great suggestions from @HAH. Willow has slipped a few times on the hallway stairs in the apartment block in Andorra, which are a polished marble/granite type stone. Obviously we can't alter them because they're not our property, and couldn't put any mats on them because they are cleaned...

It's official, I have been appointed Teaching Assistant, so I'm there to help out with all your questions and to give any feedback you want on assignments. This is the worst part now, the wait between registration and the first day of class :|

Yay! I've been drumming up some chattiness with a welcome thread so hopefully we'll be able to get it going so you guys get the support you need to keep you on track :)

Best of luck with it! Keep us updated :)

Wide angle dogs are the BEST! :inlove: https://www.dogbreathphoto.com/ztkzinwng97v1nsww8uic7yat9tpyu

Yep, that's the issue! Nikon will catch up with Canon and Sony in terms of mirrorless capabilities - and TBH Amy had significant issues shooting agility with the R5 and R6 at the last trial she was at, so they're not perfect for everything yet either. That's her bread and butter, being the...

It's such a simple background that you could easily use content aware fill to extend the canvas a little and give the subject more space to breathe.

This is a really good Sony option. Amy is a Canon and Nikon chick but to be honest, Sony and Canon are the way the industry is going right now. Not necessarily for these entry level cameras, but if you start buying decent glass to fit the body then it's easier to stay in brand later on...

The subject is the second image is the fence and gate (I didn't even notice the sign you mentioned until later - the lightness and metallic material of the round thing - gate? - on the left is a far stronger visual pull), and I don't think that's what you're going for. Yet, that's the most...

I started with a Nikon D7100 and a kit lens. That is more than enough to start off with. From what I've seen, you can pick that combo up for around GBP150 on ebay. Eventually I upgraded my lenses because that's the first thing to do, then eventually got the full frame body. I don't know what the...

OK so I'm already whipping up some enthusiasm in the FB group. Here's the ink. You need to send a screenshot of your library page showing you've registered to the admin to join. But I'm sure if you guys do your bit in posting you assignments and I keep whipping up the enthusiasm then there will...

Not a dumb question at all and I try to not be too snobby about it 😂 There’s a lot of dismissiveness of camera phones in certain quarters and I can understand why but the tech in them is improving so much faster than the same in “real” cameras that it’s hard to imagine that they won’t come close...

Amy teaches us to shoot in full manual (not even auto ISO). The mantra is, "you are smarter than your camera" :D This course is entirely about that. She starts off by using aperture priority and shutter speed priority as a means to simplify everything, but very quickly you start bringing it all...

For this course you need a DSLR or mirrorless camera. But you can pick up a decent second-hand DSLR for cheap. To start off, it doesn't need to be fancy schmancy - to be honest it never does. Of course there will be limitations with entry-level cameras (the number of frames per second and its...

New cameraphones are great, the technology is improving all the time, and yes you can control the settings on them to some extent. But they have limitations based on their design. For example, the blurry background that you often see and people love is a property of physics: a combination of the...

The study group is as active as the students make it. Sometimes it's quite busy, other times it's deathly quiet. I am on it pretty much all the time because of the fact I'm chained to my computer, and one of the others, Michelle, is super friendly and always willing to help out, too. She also...

It's not massively fast for this course. There are (IIRC) two "labs" a week, one based on skills and the other on a creative use of that skill, and you are led through them really precisely. You won't be working with live animals during the skills labs (I think the first one, for example, you...