Improving my Skills: Photography Training

I’ve spent a great deal of time researching what makes an outstanding blog. The answer is simple: Good content, great content and amazing content! Everything else is surplus. In this day and age the competition is huge and visual content has to be impeccable in order to stand out.

With that in mind, I realised that it was time to move away from the iPhone snaps, though they’d served me well and decided to seek professional advice on my photography. When researching online, I came across William Reavell, who runs food photography classes. William teaches at Leith’s Cooking school, which is where my Mum worked back in the day. I felt like this was a sign and immediately booked in with him.

My session was an intense four hours of discovering key functions of a digital camera. I learnt the difference between aperture and shutter speed and how best to use these dials in the simplest of ways. He taught me all about lighting, composition and how to dress an image.