A note from the author
"I've been taking photos for over 50 years, and teaching photography for almost a decade. Some time ago one of my clients said "I wish I could have you standing next to me all the time while I'm out with the camera, telling me what settings to use." and that got me thinking.
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What if this was actually possible? I can't always be there in person of course, but if I could provide a similar level of support in another way, it could be very helpful for people who are learning how to use a camera for the first time. And so the 'Photography Tutor in Your Pocket' app was born.
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The aim of this app is not to be an exhaustive photography course in its own right, which covers every subject in minute technical detail. In fact, it's designed to be used alongside any other sources of tuition you may have come across. But it bridges the gap between the information you might read online at home, and knowing which buttons to press, and what settings to use for different types of images, when you're actually out 'in the field' - often literally! It also contains links to longer tuition documents on my website, to give added context to the advice in the app itself.
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Please do leave a review on the Google Playstore if you like this app. But if you find any problems with it, please email me to tell me, so I can get it fixed in the next version. We're also working on the iPhone version right now!"
Gill Prince
About Gill Prince
Gill is an award-winning photographer and photography/Lightroom tutor. Her awards and commendations include The British Photography Awards, The Epson Pano Awards, The Urban Photographer of the Year and the Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year.
In 2017 she published a photography book called ‘Unexpected:MK' as part of her home city’s 50th birthday celebrations. She also writes for Amateur Photographer Magazine and Digital Photographer Magazine, and sells prints via her website.
In her ‘day job’ Gill is a commercial property and landscape photographer, working for a wide variety of clients that include everything from global brands through to private Airbnb owners.
She has been teaching photography and Adobe Lightroom for nearly 10 years now, and has taught hundreds of people during that time, from ‘off auto’ level upwards, as well as running photography and post processing workshops. She also provides Lightroom tuition and Lightroom problem-solving services online via Zoom as well as in person, and has clients all over the world.
This level of experience in the industry has enabled Gill to understand how to help people learn photography in the best way possible, which in turn led to her developing the ‘Photography Tutor in Your Pocket’ app.
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"I have been so grateful for Gill’s help while I’m going through the process of learning photography. I find her tuition documents on things like aperture, shutter speed, ISO and composition very easy to read and understand, as though I’m listening to her explaining it. The analogies she uses to explain particular settings and features also make perfect sense.
I’m starting to put the teaching into practise when I’m out with my new camera, using aperture priority instead of auto, and I’m really starting to bond with it now, and enjoying getting out and about with it. Without Gill it would just be sat in the wardrobe!
I’ve used my camera more in the time that Gill has been teaching me than in the whole time I’ve owned it. Thank you!
Claire McNaught