About Kevin Richards

"If only I was born with a camera in my hands. Not only would I be a lot better at it, but I would have gotten to enjoy this fantastic art form for so much longer. Alas, I find myself well entrenched in a corporate IT career and only discovering the joy, art and science of photography a little over a year ago with my very first DPC course arranged and booked by my wife. After that course, my love for photography has, while hurting my bank balance, awoken in me what I feel was my actual true calling. Every time I pick up the camera, I feel I am still learning and that I still have so much more to discover and share. I hope that feeling never stops."

Perfect Effects 9 by On1 Software – Free to download via 500px!

By |2017-07-14T15:28:33+02:0010 Mar 2015|

On1 Software has made their stand-alone or Photoshop and Lightroom plugin, Perfect Effects 9 available as a free download through the photographic community 500px. The software usually cost $59.00 and with the current Rand-Dollar exchange rate, this freebie is not be frowned upon! The software contains filters and hundreds of presets that allow you to quickly apply custom looks to your photos and the best bit is you don't have to be a 500px member to take advantage of the offer.

The Masks We Are

By |2017-07-14T15:33:30+02:0026 Feb 2015|

My idea for this project actually started out as a simple portrait shoot with some masks that I would source, but it slowly evolved as I planned it out. It became a little more personal as I tried to present little pieces of myself in each idea. This then evolved further when I realized through this process, that I often present myself to people in a manner which corresponds to the situation I am in and that I vary rarely show the real me. From this I decided to twist the mask idea a little, still showing these little bits of me, but in each shot, the mask reveals more than it hides.

Shoot with Intent: Why Kevin Richards Loves and Hates DPC!

By |2017-07-14T15:42:18+02:0010 Dec 2014|

Those 3 little letters W-H-Y just about knocked me for a six and has made me re-evaluate what it actually is that I am doing with my camera. Naturally, this made me depressed as photography suddenly went from being fun to frustrating in no time at all. (Thanks ALOT DPC). When you start thinking about WHY you are taking a picture, it completely over shadows the what, how, who and where in an instant. The other questions, to a degree, all have tangible answers to them but the WHY leaves me floundering and is now forcing me to really think a lot harder about what it is I am trying to accomplish as a photographer and what it is that I what to communicate in my pictures.

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