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January 2023

10 Tips to Make Better Portrait Photos 1024 683 David Taylor

10 Tips to Make Better Portrait Photos

Are you looking for a few tips to improve your portrait photography skills? Look no further! Here are 10 tips written by professional photographer (and regular Telephoto.com contributor) David Taylor.…

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A Beginner’s Guide to Indoors Abstract Photography 1024 683 David Taylor

A Beginner’s Guide to Indoors Abstract Photography

Abstract photography is the art of creating a non-representative photo that relies on texture, colour, shape or lighting for its effect. Ideally, it should not be immediately apparent what the…

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A Beginner’s Guide to Colour Harmony 1024 683 David Taylor

A Beginner’s Guide to Colour Harmony

Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy and appreciate black and white photography. It’s just that colour photography has long been my preference. (A sentence to make my first photography…

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Playing With the Sharp End – How to Photograph Sharks 1024 680 Gavin Parsons

Playing With the Sharp End – How to Photograph Sharks

There is one golden rule drummed into every new scuba diver: ‘never hold your breath’. Now in an article about photographing sharks you may have thought I’d start with something…

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How to Get Sharper Pictures 1024 770 Gavin Parsons

How to Get Sharper Pictures

Do you want sharper pictures? It’s the holy grail of many a photographer who cannot work out how to do it. You see pin sharp pictures everywhere, yet have no…

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Going Wide – Making the Most of Wide Angle Lenses 1024 683 David Taylor

Going Wide – Making the Most of Wide Angle Lenses

Landscape photographers would be a bit stuck if they were banned from using wide-angle lenses. The wide-angle lens – and we’re talking about anything with a focal length of 24mm…

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A Beginner’s Guide to Using Underwater Strobes 1024 680 Gavin Parsons

A Beginner’s Guide to Using Underwater Strobes

Underwater photography is a tricky thing to master, but one of the most important aspects is light. Water sucks the life out of light turning it a dull blueish hue…

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The Perfect Ratio 600 450 Jason Friend

The Perfect Ratio

Back in the days of film, you had a couple of key decisions to make before investing in a new camera system. First of all, what size film would you…

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Getting Ahead by Getting a (Tripod) Head 1024 682 David Taylor

Getting Ahead by Getting a (Tripod) Head

There are two types of tripods. Well, okay there are more than two types of tripod but I’m keeping this simple so I don’t get confused (easily done). The first…

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10 Tips to Make Better Wedding Photos 1024 683 David Taylor

10 Tips to Make Better Wedding Photos

Are you looking for a few tips to improve your black and white photography skills? Look no further! Here are 10 tips written by professional photographer (and regular Telephoto.com contributor) David…

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