Jason Friend Photography

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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Photographing the Cumbria Way

Seventy miles is an unarguably long distance to cover photographically, however this is what I agreed to complete when I received a commission to write a book regarding the Cumbria…

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Saving Photo History 1024 770 Gavin Parsons

Saving Photo History

At some point in the early 1900s or so someone asked their family to get together and experience the wonders of photography. They’d spent a fortune on a camera and…

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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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A Quick Guide to Photographing the Milky Way 1024 605 Gavin Parsons

A Quick Guide to Photographing the Milky Way

Have you every tried to photograph the Milky Way and found your results to be lacking compared to those amazingly detailed images on Instagram? Yep join the crowd of disappointed…

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10 Tips to Make Better Black & White Photos 1024 683 David Taylor

10 Tips to Make Better Black & White 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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Making a Photo at the Decisive Moment

Everyone should have a hero or heroine who inspires them to become better at what they do. We’re all photographers here so it would be odd if we didn’t have…

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How to Photograph People Well 1024 683 Gavin Parsons

How to Photograph People Well

People like having their picture taken about as much as they enjoy walking into a lamppost. Being told to smile, stand up straight and look happy are some of the…

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