Posts by Author: Daniela Bowker
Daniela Bowker is a writer and editor based in the UK. Since 2010 she has focused on the photography sector. In this time, she has written three books and contributed to many more, served as the editor for two websites, written thousands of articles for numerous publications, both in print and online, and runs the Photocritic Photography School.
Waving or drowning? What’s the situation with Kickstarter / photo printing service Flag?
Apr 30, 2017
Daniela Bowker
Do you recall Flag? The app that wanted to take your photos and print them for free, funded by advertising on the reverse of the…
Do you know your photographic repertoire?
Apr 16, 2017
Daniela Bowker
Flicking through Michael Freeman’s newest book, Fifty Paths to Creative Photography, in Heffers in Cambridge last week, I was drawn to point 37: ‘Dig into…
Why your camera brand doesn’t matter
Feb 4, 2017
Daniela Bowker
A few weeks before Christmas my best friend’s husband rang me: Daniela, I want to buy M a camera. What should I get her? I…
Every camera manufacturer runs some kind of ambassador scheme, somehow they don’t really represent women
Dec 24, 2016
Daniela Bowker
Most camera manufacturers run ambassador schemes. They vary in their numbers and the precise ways in which they’re run, but the principles seem similar enough:…
6 tips for photographing brown food
Nov 12, 2016
Daniela Bowker
One of the highlights of my Sunday is reading Jay Rayner’s restaurant review in The Observer. I have to say that the photography that illustrates…
The complete photography guide to shooting in museums and galleries
Oct 22, 2016
Daniela Bowker
I dropped into the British Museum on Monday and spent a few hours in the Mesopotamian galleries with a brief flit through the Greek and…
Can someone snap a photo of me in the street and use it to identify me?
Oct 2, 2016
Daniela Bowker
With facial recognition technology you can take pictures of people in the street, run them through publicly available photographs online, and get a match. You…
Thinking about closed and open form pictures; or how old art history terms can still be useful
Sep 10, 2016
Daniela Bowker
If you were to mention the term ‘formal analysis’ to an art historian today, you’d probably be told it’s passé. No one really tries to…
What is the golden ratio and why is it meant to be beautiful?
Aug 14, 2016
Daniela Bowker
Photography is awash with rules, from the inverse square rule to the Sunny 16 rule; and nestling among the composition rules in the golden ratio….
What is the Sunny 16 Rule and does it still matter?
Jul 30, 2016
Daniela Bowker
Do people who take photos today still use the Sunny 16 Rule? Do they even know about the Sunny 16 Rule? I think it might…