Welcome to my blog.

Welcome to my blog.

So, It’s time for me to start my own blog. Why? Well why not. The world and his wife all have a blog so I have decided to start one myself.

As an enthusiastic semi-pro photographer who intends within the next 3 years to become a fully professional photographer, I have decided to blog my journey. The day I will be fully professional will be the day I receive my Licentiateship from the Royal Photographical society http://www.rps.org/licentiateship hence the title of the blog, “The road to Licentiateship”.

I started my journey a few months back when I did an Open University course, T189, Creating and sharing better images. http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/t189.htm Its a 10 week course that I did not think I would get much out of, but I was surprised how much my photography improved from this course. My only disappointment with the course was the ‘Open Gallery’, everyone from the course posting the pictures they took from the weekly assignments for everyone else to critique.  The problem was that inexperienced photographers critiquing pictures were too afraid to post anything negative. If a picture is poor, say its poor, but at validate it with what should be done to improve it.  By week 7 very little critiquing was done.  I found I was getting better comments from Flickr. The course finished in July and this week I finally got my results. I passed with an overall grade of 90%, which is a ‘Distinction’ I was very pleased.

So now, it is time to turn my attention to my Licentiateship. 

To gain a Licentiateship, I have to produce a panel of ten photographs to be submitted to a board of assessors who will pass judgement on my work to say it meets the standard requirements. The panel of photographs should have an overall theme but not of the same subject.  The position in the panel of each photograph should complement each other.

So, part one. Time to decide on my subject for my panel. Any ideas?