Revisiting Ask Me

Back in the mists of time, Liz Kuball thought it was about time women did more to help other women in the photography biz. Great idea, and naturally enough as these things go, it prompted a bit of a bleat from people who think men should ask questions too. Very valid point: let’s welcome questions from men. A woman, and now an officially qualified (smug) practitioner answering questions can only be A Good Thing, so yeah let’s try it again.

You can Ask Me on Twitter

Fill in the Contact Form from the Contact Me page on this site

Arrange to meet me at the EDAN Courtyard Gallery or at the Lickety Split ice cream parlour in sunny Seaham.

Come to one of the Open Studio events that’ll be starting in January 2010

Comment on these pages, anywhere.

Please don’t email or telephone: I don’t play voicemail, and email is barely functional, although the occasional text is absolutely fine if we have already met. By far the best way if you want a quick response is via Twitter. Either DM (direct message) me or make sure you use the @ reply like this @brendadadaand I will see it usually within a few hours.

Recent Ask Me questions:

- Aaron Cupid @aaroncupidwants to know what might sell in a Gallery. Don’t we all. I’ll do a blog post. You can all chip in.

- He also would like ideas on self-publishing that include how to sequence or edit, and again your thoughts are wanted.

- Bruce Burn needs help to get his Pentax 35mm film camera working again. There’s a whole post here on renewing your romance with an old film camera, much of which will help him too, but that’s definitely a good one for a real life meeting. If you want to bring me an old film camera to get going again, also bring along a fresh battery or batteries, and a roll of film.

- Several people have asked how to photograph snow. Answers to that one are coming up, since it looks like snow all over the UK is on its way.

- Jac Howard would like to see some examples of various film formats: 35mm/120/5×4 etc. I’ll photograph that session and blog it here.

- How to correctly load a 5×4 DDS: I asked Amanda McHale on a high fell one night while we were out seeking meteor showers. Thing about using LF camera on a college course, is that passing technicians swoop in and do it all for you, thus rendering the vital learning process, for which you’re paying £££££s , pretty much impotent. Do it yourself, every time, That way you’ll know how to load a DDS without having to Ask Me.

- SB800 flashes and their deep menus are pretty much impenetrable. I’ve mastered mine. Post to come, thanks to the 3 people who’ve enquired about how to set them for off-camera flash.

- What’s a grey card? Good question.

Ask Me posts passim are under the Ask Me category and I think there will also be a tag.

There is also this new widget from formspring.me

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