Alan Ewart Photography

Our affordable Adobe Lightroom Workshops are aimed at digital photographers who have struggled to get to grips with Adobe's catalog and editing program. Make no mistake, the 2023 version of Lightroom is a game-changer.  The addition of Artificial Intelligence based masking, the ability to have multiple masks, and the capability of those masks to intersect with each other are truly groundbreaking. The recent addition of color grading, combined with AI-based masking, really does make Lightroom a viable alternative to Adobe's flagship Photoshop program for most of a photographer's editing needs. Our one-day Lightroom Workshops will have you editing your images to a very high standard whatever your level of previous knowledge.  You will be taken through every aspect of an efficient Lightroom workflow, from creating a catalog and importing images to exporting the finished image. You can expect to leave the workshop with the ability to do all of the following in an ...

Finding interesting documentary photography topics can be a challenge. This article will help photographers to generate ideas and tell powerful stories. Image "Gold" by Sebastião Salgado Generating Interesting Documentary Photography Topics In the first article in this series about  documentary photography  we discussed how photography can be a powerful medium for capturing and telling the stories of the world around us. Whether you're a professional photographer or an amateur with a passion for storytelling, generating documentary photography topic ideas can be a challenge.  If you have sat in front of your computer staring at a blank screen or faced the dreaded blank page, fear not, you are not alone. In this blog post, we'll explore some of the key strategies and techniques for coming up with new and impactful project ideas.  We will highlight broad ideas for you to research, hopefully we can make that research interesting, and who knows, you might eve...

In this latest article, we discuss the ethics of documentary photography and why ethical considerations should be close to the top of your priority list when you are planning a documentary project. As photographers, we have the right to express ourselves creatively, but in documentary photography projects it's also important to ensure that we do not invoke that right in a way that is detrimental to those we photograph.  After all, as documentary photographers, we are dealing with real people, events, and situations and those events may have been extremely traumatic. With its ability to shed light on important social and cultural issues, documentary photography has the potential to educate, inspire, and bring about change.  However, it also has the ability to mislead and misrepresent.  Therefore, we must always ensure that we apply the highest ethical standards to our work.   This discussion of the ethics of documentary photography will help you to ensure tha...

Finding interesting documentary photography topics can be a challenge. This article will help photographers to generate ideas and tell powerful stories. Image "Gold" by Sebastião Salgado Generating Interesting Documentary Photography Topics In the first article in this series about  documentary photography  we discussed how photography can be a powerful medium for capturing and telling the stories of the world around us. Whether you're a professional photographer or an amateur with a passion for storytelling, generating documentary photography topic ideas can be a challenge.  If you have sat in front of your computer staring at a blank screen or faced the dreaded blank page, fear not, you are not alone. In this blog post, we'll explore some of the key strategies and techniques for coming up with new and impactful project ideas.  We will highlight broad ideas for you to research, hopefully we can make that research interesting, and who knows, you might eve...

What is Documentary Photography?  A question that will be answered through a series of articles, for students and photographers, in the coming weeks and months. The Beginners Guide to Documentary Photography Documentary photography is without question one of the most enjoyable, powerful, and significant niches in the world of photography.  Documentary photography produces the sort of images that don't just capture and preserve the world around us, they can help to shape it. If you doubt what I say, I invite you to consider for a moment a famous photograph from the Vietnam war. Nick Ut's famous image "Napalm Girl" won Ut a Pulitzer prize but it had a much more profound effect on the American psyche. The disturbing image of a screaming and terrified nine-year-old child horrified the nation as the effects of the war became front-page news. Anti-war protests increased across America, and support for the war evaporated.  It can certainly be argued that...