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I was recently asked the same question by two different subscribers to my YouTube channel. The question was; “how do you grow a YouTube channel?”

I was a little surprised to be asked this. Although at the time of writing, I’m just over the 3,000 subscriber mark on my channel, and I’m immensely grateful and proud of that, I’m hardly in Peter McKinnon territory just yet!

Nevertheless, my channel does seem to be growing at a steady rate and I thought I’d attempt to answer the question and at least share what seems to have worked for me so far.

I was reading recently reading an article on the PetaPixel website in which an argument by Marc Levoy, a computational photography pioneer, is put forward to suggest that “straight photography” is a myth.

I had never heard of the term before, but it refers to creating a photograph of a scene with sharp focus, with lots of detail, by a camera. Sometimes referred to as “pure photography”, the technique, in theory, stands apart from other methods of capturing a scene, such as drawing or painting, in that it is “true to life” and “realistic”.