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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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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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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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Getting to Know Adobe Lightroom: The Library Module (Part Two) 1024 768 David Taylor

Getting to Know Adobe Lightroom: The Library Module (Part Two)

In part one of Getting to know Adobe Lightroom we looked at the basics of creating a Catalog and importing images to view them in the Library module. Hold onto your hats for today…

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Using Flash to Enhance Your Outdoor Portraits 1024 683 Kevin Landwer-Johan

Using Flash to Enhance Your Outdoor Portraits

Taking portraits outdoors can be challenging when the ambient light is not ideal. Since it’s not possible to control the sun, (at least, I have not discovered how to yet,)…

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