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About & Contact
My name is Duncan Wherrett, the writer of this site. In my early photography days, most of my work was in large format, using 8 x 10 cameras. These days digital capture dominates all.
I have been using Photoshop for over 10 years, starting with version 3.5.
Being a professional photographer for 30 years has been a great help in producing an effective result – knowing how things should look and what can work as a more powerful image.
While most work is now done on digital, the plate camera still gets used for personal work.Using a plate camera has its own qualities; the craftsmanship, the time taken and the care and consideration needed in setting up the image.
On the film front, I still cross-process some transparency film for the special effect that achieves. The way I process it does involve a certain unpredictability, which means I don't know quite how it will turn out until I see the scanned image on the screen.
I can be contacted via the e-mail form below.
About this siteMost people seem to have had bad experiences with computer manuals. They are written by experts but never seem to have been road-tested on complete beginners. Photoshop is no exception, with some books spending the first 50 pages describing tools and features in some detail – a confusing amount of information much of which will not be used for a long while. All I wanted to do was just get started. In due course I mastered all its functions but I thought there has to be a better way of presenting the instructions.
This stimulated me to write articles on different Photoshop tasks and just as I was thinking of putting some of these articles into a web site, I came across Site Build It. A fellow photographer had recently developed his passion for yoga into a web site using the SBI system. Although I can produce web sites to some extent, I was impressed by how simple and professional SBI made the whole process and that no technical knowledge was required. The system comes with a large range of templates, a simple system of construction and complete action guides, No previous knowledge required What impressed me most was how much traffic this yoga site was getting and how much the owner was earning from product sales and ads from other suppliers. And all this without knowing the mechanics and secret tricks to generate traffic, which meant there was no time spent on learning the things I was not too interested in. Getting to the top 1% Developing this site over a period, traffic has increased progressively. You even get help how to refine your topic and how to make money from the site, by such means as placing Google ads, collecting commission fees by recommending products and selling e-books. Videos from users Anyone completely new to web site building can produce a site with the SBI system. As a result, a hobby or passion can be turned into a money-creating enterprise. It seems any subject can have such success - cats, flat tummies, needlework, allergies, cars, reiki, hair styles, just anything if there is enough demand for the topic, and the system will calculate the demand for your topic before you begin. Sure it takes time to build up a site, but no technical knowledge and little in the way of writing skills. SBI even has guides on how to write the most effective text for your pages, such as this free book,
Make Your Content Pre-Sell
. The big thing is that you are working on a subject that you are very keen on.
It's surprising how many people have developed their sites using their hobbies and a subject they are mad about into real money-making machines and been able to give up their regular jobs, changing a boring lifestyle to one of more interest and independence. I won't give up my job; photography has always been a hobby as well as job to me, but all the extra income is useful.
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Duncan Wherrett
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