title: Studying Photography: A Survival Guide (Photo Developing)
author: Douglas Holleley
description: If you are, or will be enrolling in a visual arts course, this book is an invaluable survival guide. The book lays bare the powerful value systems that are embedded within higher education institutions and explains them with wit and clarity. Issues such as the hidden curriculum, analyzing images, progression, writing an artist statement, assessment, plagiarism, copyright and ultimately getting a job at the end of the degree are all explained in clear, easy to understand language. Because of the author's background and experience, this book is addressed to photographers. However, any student of any of the visual arts will find it a useful companion as they proceed on their course of study. The principles described in this book are equally applicable to students of drawing, painting and printmaking. Even sculptors and other 3-D artists will benefit by reading it. The book is also required reading for graduate students contemplating a teaching career as it will give them a privileged insight into the perils, pitfalls and delights of working in the higher education system.
zlib_text: CRAFT & VISION
  11 Ways to Improve 
  Your Photography
  Edited by  
    David duChemin
  A FREE  
  eBook from 
  
  Contents
  MAKE YOUR IMAGES MORE DYNAMIC 
  4
  FORGET LENS STEREOTYPES 
  47
  UNDERSTAND THE STAGES 
  26
  TAME YOUR DIGITAL EXPOSURES 
  10 
  SLOW DOWN AND LEARN TO SEE 
  54
  CREATE PROJECTS AND COLLABORATE 
  31
  THE POWER OF THE PRINT 
  16
  MAKE STRONGER PORTRAITS 
  61
  REFINE YOUR COMPOSITION 
  36
  LEARN TO DIRECT THE EYE 
  20
  THE POWER OF THE MOMENT 
  41
  
  I’ve been a photographer for over 25 years now. 
  Both my craft and my photographic vision are 
  much different now than they were when I 
  first started. I like to think they’ve evolved and 
  improved in their ability to express what I hope 
  for. Certainly, to a large extent, that evolution 
  and growth came with the passing of time. Give 
  anyone a quarter century doing one thing and 
  they are bound, it is hoped, to get better. But I 
  don’t think I needed 25 years. I think with more 
  focused teaching and study I could have learned 
  my lessons faster, arrived 