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About Craig
Craig Roberts has been a professional photographer for over 15 years and specialises in travel and landscape photography. He has always had a passion for the great outdoors, so whilst many photographers are happy shooting indoors in the warm confines of a studio, he’s at his most content when stood on a windswept landscape, waiting for that fleeting moment of perfect light. And it is only this moment, when he will transfer that vision before him, with the camera, for permanent record. Such is his ideal for perfection that he will often return home from a shoot without recording a single image, promising himself to return when the light is perfect once again.
Home
Born and raised in Hampshire, his work showcases the best of this county, as well as covering much of the UK and Europe. He has now relocated north to Yorkshire, where he has made a home with his family. With North Yorkshire, the Peak District and the Pennines now on his doorstop, he hopes to draw new inspiration from this stunning part of the country.
Work
As well as capturing the landscape, Craig also writes about its beauty, with illustrated articles for various magazines and publications. He also writes extensively on the techniques of photography for magazines such as Outdoor Photography, Amateur Photographer, EOS Magazine, Digital SLR, Practical Photography and What Digital Camera. Here he gives other photographers help and advice into getting the best out of their cameras, drawing from his own experience and knowledge that he has acquired throughout his career.
New challenges
His work continues to push the boundaries of photography, practising new techniques and subjects that aspire him to create images that he hopes others will enjoy, as much as he did to create them in the first place. These images are usually taken on digital cameras, but Craig still reverts back to shooting film, a medium that has seen somewhat of a revival in recent years, as new photographers have discovered the unique qualities of this analogue format. For this, Craig uses a variety of cameras, including cheap plastic ‘toy’ cameras that produce images with a quality way beyond their price. As Craig explains, ‘The creativity these cameras exude from you hopefully has an input in my regular photography and now I often turn to film and Lomography (the term used to describe these lo-fi cameras) when my photography needs that spur of inspiration’.
Online course
Craig now passes on this extensive knowledge through his own online photography course via this website, as well as one day photography workshops at various locations in the UK. Aimed at both beginners and advanced users, the unique online course offers an alternative way to learn photography and has a body of students from Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, USA, as well as throughout the UK.
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“I see photography as a way of documenting the world as I see it, onto a medium for others to enjoy”.
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