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A Beginner’s Guide To Shooting Autumn Colours 1024 768 David Taylor

A Beginner’s Guide To Shooting Autumn Colours

Every season has its charms, but autumn (or fall if you insist) is particularly special. What’s not to like? The weather is often unsettled and therefore interesting photographically. (A clear…

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10 Tips to Make Better Macro Photos 1024 708 David Taylor

10 Tips to Make Better Macro Photos

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

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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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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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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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Five Reasons You’re Not Getting Better at Photography… 1024 684 David Taylor

Five Reasons You’re Not Getting Better at Photography…

It’s distressingly easy to plateau as a photographer, to reach a certain level of competence and then stay there. Often there’s a simple reason for this. Because I’m good to…

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Using a Tilt and Shift Lens 700 467 David Taylor

Using a Tilt and Shift Lens

Every photographer welcomes the day a new lens arrives in the post. Just recently I had such a day. And do you know what, I was more excited than usual…

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