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Camera Position 73 : The Project Planning Roadmap – An Introduction

Defining and planning a project is one of the most useful ways to build a body of work, learn about yourself and learn about your personal response to photography. With this podcast, we start a series of Camera Position episodes that will create and follow a project planning roadmap for photographers.

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Camera Position 72 – Photographer’s Bookshelf #5

Photographer’s Bookshelf #5 highlights a stunning and interesting reprinting of Robert Frank’s important 1959 book “The Americans,” a must-have for your photographic book collection. Also, a reminder about registration for the Tuscany Workshop May 16 to 23, 2009 – the registration deadline is Friday, February 6 – register now!

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In Search of the Personal : Photographing Tuscany with Jeff Curto

Camera Position Special Edition : Tuscany Workshop Announcement

I am very pleased to announce that I will be leading a workshop to Tuscany this May.

In Search of the Personal:
Photographing Tuscany with Jeff Curto

Saturday, May 16 to Saturday, May 23, 2009

For more information, visit www.photographitaly.com


Visit the Workshop Website

Enjoy a photographic journey where you will experience many aspects of Tuscany’s remarkable culture, landscape and hill towns and work towards a personal photographic response to the Tuscan sense of place.

Working from our base at the beautiful Casa Cornacchi, located near Bucine, ideally situated in the Chianti area halfway between Siena and Arezzo, we will fan out across the Tuscan landscape and explore hill towns, markets, vineyards and the remarkable architecture of the region. By immersing ourselves in the culture, we will get to know the people, food and wine of the region. I will push you to go beyond the picturesque and help you discover your own response to the texture, rhythm and spirit of Tuscany.

This workshop is limited to a maximum of 12 participants in order to ensure the best level of personal instructional attention. This is an intermediate-level photographic experience; participants should have at least three years experience making photographs, have a basic understanding of photographic processes and technology and should be comfortable using a digital SLR camera in manual mode.

Camera Position 71 : How To Get Really Good at Photography

How to get really good at photography! Finally, the secret is revealed. Turns out, it’s not all that hard… just live a life in the world. And make pictures.

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Tractor, Sycamore Steam Fest, 2008 and Spring Grapevine, Tuscany, 2008
Photographs by Jeff Curto (click for a larger view)

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Camera Position 70 : Go With the Gestalt (part 2)

Part two of our examination of the concepts of Gestalt in composition. Gestalt is a psychology of visual communication that helps explain how the mind works to make sense of the visual world. This episode talks about “similarity” and “proximity.”

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Photographs by Jeff Curto (click for a larger view)