Wayne Cosshall, Image Maker, Author, Educator

Wayne J. Cosshall - Image Maker, Author, Educator

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Photography Wisdom is available in print, eBook and App for iPad forms.

Whatever your experience in photography, Photography Wisdom will help you to make your images better by giving you new tools, insights and ways of thinking about your photography. Fifty great tips and extensive illustrations guide you through a process of loosing up, being more creative and taking better photos.

Wayne J. Cosshall, renowned author and educator about photography, brings his 35+ years of photography experience to you in a fun, thought provoking book that challenges you to take better photos.

Photography Wisdom came about from my desire to take a series of tips for better photography I have been publishing on www.dimagemaker.com, expand on them and publish them in book form. Some people like and use online resources but others do not, and it seemed a shame to miss out on reaching such people. Plus the printed form (and even e-books) offers a different look and design layout options than a website does.

The tips come from my 35+ years of photography experience, from my passions of landscape, macro, collage and infrared photography to portraits, weddings, product shots and the odd bit of fashion. They also draw from my varied other interests and activities: helping people overcome creative blocks, teaching photography, art and computers at all levels of adult education, a passion for science, philosophy, spirituality and history, and much more. I find it constantly amazing that interests in one area will often yield insights in a completely different field.

Print and Kindle editions are available from Amazon

App version is available from the Apple App Store

ePUB and Kindle eBooks are available from the Smashwords website and from other online ebook stores

The first in our Digital ImageMaker International Interactive Portfolio series of monographs looking at the work of individual photographers and digital artists, Wayne J. Cosshall Photography and Digital Imaging allows you to get into the work of Wayne J. Cosshall, renowned photography educator and writer and his innovative approach to imaging. Along the way you will learn how to take his approaches and techniques into your own work.

The Interactive Portfolio includes six galleries of amazing work, a constantly updated Latest Work gallery, an interactive pan-zoom gallery of selected infrared panoramas, videos of Wayne talking about his shooting and processing methods and more. The galleries contain text and audio narratives that let you get deeper into the work and assist your own learning process.

They are updated regularly with not only work in the Latest Work gallery, but also with additions to the audio and video content, as well as the text commentaries.

The work in the galleries is this monograph cover:

• Multiple exposure, abstract work

• Complex and rich multi-image collages

• Moody and conceptual Lensbaby images

• Long exposure

• Infrared landscape photography

• Mixed general photography

• Panoramas

Over 120 works in stunning iPad quality are shown in the six main galleries, plus the panoramas and the increasing number of images in the Latest Works gallery.

Three videos let you explore Wayne’s approach to infrared photography, a number of ways he works with layers in Adobe Photoshop and his unique approach to abstraction and how this affects all his photography. The videos total 30 minutes of viewing. Updates will add more videos.

App version are available from the Apple App Store

Photography Wisdom - The Shooting Collection is available in eBook form.

Photography Wisdom, The Shooting Collection contains 10 great tips to improving your photographic shooting. Extracted from the 50 tip Photography Wisdom book, these ten tips concentrate on making your shooting of photography better and more enjoyable. These tips include:

• Composition

• Exposure

• Watch the Eye Line

• Shoot More

• Shoot Different

• Shoot Always

• Shoot Dirty

• Shoot Anything, and See What Happens

• Work a Scene to the Max

• Look Carefully

Any one of these will improve your photography significantly if you apply it. All ten will really push your shooting to a new, higher level of achievement.

Wayne J. Cosshall, renowned author and educator about photography, brings his 35+ years of photography experience to you in a fun, thought provoking book that challenges you to take better photos.

The Kindle edition is available from Amazon

ePUB and Kindle eBooks are available from the Smashwords website and from other online ebook stores

Photography Wisdom - The Psychology of Image Making Collection is available in eBook form.

Photography Wisdom, The Psychology of Image Making Collection contains 10 great tips to improving your photography by helping you understand yourself and how others respond to photography. Extracted from the 50 tip Photography Wisdom book, these ten tips concentrate on giving you a deeper understanding of photography and the way it works with people's minds. These tips include:

• Balance Intuition and Intellect

• Restrict Yourself

• Stay Outside of Your Comfort Zone

• Push Yourself That Little Bit More

• Reconsideration is Good

• Plan, Then Shoot

• Use What You Have

• Understand the Rules

• Break the Rules

• Set Assignments

Any one of these will improve your photography significantly if you apply it. All ten will really push your shooting to a new, higher level of achievement.

Wayne J. Cosshall, renowned author and educator about photography, brings his 35+ years of photography experience to you in a fun, thought provoking book that challenges you to take better photos.

The Kindle edition is available from Amazon

ePUB and Kindle eBooks are available from the Smashwords website and from other online ebook stores

Photography Wisdom - The Creation & Construction Collection is available in eBook form.

Photography Wisdom, The Creation & Construction Collection contains 10 great tips to improving your photography by understanding how you can go beyond just finding images to how to create them. Extracted from the 50 tip Photography Wisdom book, these ten tips concentrate on how we can use the tools photography gives us to be as creative as painters in building images that go beyond what we see in front of us. These tips include:

• Shoot Extras and With Variety

• Your Own Library

• Every Image Has a Story

• Strong Emotion Is Powerful

• Work With Many Levels

• Construct

• Seek Out Peers

• Trust Yourself

• Produce for Yourself

• Think in Bodies of Work

Any one of these will improve your photography significantly if you apply it. All ten will really push your shooting to a new, higher level of achievement.

Wayne J. Cosshall, renowned author and educator about photography, brings his 35+ years of photography experience to you in a fun, thought provoking book that challenges you to take better photos.

The Kindle edition is available from Amazon

ePUB and Kindle eBooks are available from the Smashwords website and from other online ebook stores

Photography Wisdom - The Present Your Work Collection is available in eBook form.

Photography Wisdom, The Present Your Work Collection contains 10 great tips to improving your photography by understanding how and why to present your work to others and how to make the most of the experience. Extracted from the 50 tip Photography Wisdom book, these ten tips concentrate on giving you a deeper understanding of how people view work, how you present it and what you get out of showing your work to others. These tips include:

• View Your Camera and Computer as Part of One System

• Print More

• Print in More Sizes

• Vary Your Paper

• See Your Prints

• Finish

• Learn the Lingo

• Look At Photography

• Enter Competitions

• Exhibitions

Any one of these will improve your photography significantly if you apply it. All ten will really push your shooting to a new, higher level of achievement.

Wayne J. Cosshall, renowned author and educator about photography, brings his 35+ years of photography experience to you in a fun, thought provoking book that challenges you to take better photos.

The Kindle edition is available from Amazon

ePUB and Kindle eBooks are available from the Smashwords website and from other online ebook stores

Digital ImageMage Maker 01 is available in print and as an eBook.

digital imageMaker international 01 brings you some of the world's best photography and digital art in book form. This volume in an ongoing series brings you portrait photography by Nadia Salameh, art by Bonny Lhotka and David J. Bookbinder, insect photography by Jane Davenport, generative art by Don Relyea and a profile of the Digital Art Guild. Stunning images will stimulate and delight you while insightful interviews will educate and inform.

Each artist/photographer profile has been chosen to provide not only stunning images to enjoy but also to stimulate your own creative processes in new ways and directions, critical to advancing your own work.

Part of an ongoing series, digital imageMaker international aims to present you with the best imagery possible in forms that suit you. Thus DIMi is available in both print and electronic formats.

The Kindle edition is available from Amazon

The print edition is available from MagCloud

ePUB and Kindle eBooks are available from the Smashwords website and from other online ebook stores

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I teach at Swinburne and NMIT, and also offer workshops, courses and seminars at various locations in photography, writing and publishing, business development and personal development.

I pride myself in being outstanding educator, usually getting 5 out of 5 for his teaching on student surveys and ringing endorsements from my workshop participants.

I also teaches through my blogs and websites, the main ones being:

Digital ImageMaker International

A Writer's Quest

A 3rd Way

I live in Melbourne, Australia, with my wife, Adriana, a painter, and daughter, Lauren, also a keen photographer and artist, plus two cats who haven't figured themselves out yet.

Preferred contact is by email:

wayne at (please type in the @) dimagemaker.com

Phone is +61 418 397 438

0418 397 438 in Australia

I am happy to talk.

I'm cursed with one prime characteristic, an immense curiousity about everything. So while many others have happily pursued one career and many others several, I have pursued many, often simultaneously. This makes the party question "and what do you do for a living" one of the few questions I find difficult to answer quickly.

I combine this immense curiousity with outstanding visual, analytical and communication skills. In fact communication is the thread that ties everything together. So at the present time my life revolves around communication (as well as my wife and daughter, who are the true centres the universe). I communicate through my image making, which is deeply conceptual and symbolic, writing and teaching. I also make strong use of my communication skills in helping others to communicate, through the development of websites and publishing assistance.

My image making practice encompasses a huge range of styles and subjects, as is necessary for teaching, but strong personal directions lie in infrared photography, time-focused studies and conceptual image creation. I'm at my happiest when out in the landscape shooting infrared, doing experimental time images and at the computer composing some composite image.

Writing is a large part of my life, with an active program of books underway, a magazine and multiple blogs, as well as writing for other people, such as for HP. A novel is also underway.

I've been teaching since, as a third year undergraduate student, the university put me in front of the first years as a tutor. A 20 year career followed as a univerity researcher and educator until leaving to pursue other things. However teaching worked its way back into my life and since leaving this fulltime academic post I've run the photography degree at the Australian Academy of Design, taught photography at other institutions, been an RTO consultant to still more training organisations and more. I now teach at Swinburne University of Technology in web and interaction design, at NMIT in writing and publishing, and run an active program of workshops, seminars and courses in photography, business development and writing.