Photography Tips & Tutorials

What is a standard lens and why would I use one? You’re amazing. You really are. And I’m not saying that to curry favour either (I’m sure you’d be too polite to mention it even if I were). No, you’re a true wonder.

It’s good to have a hero or heroine. Someone you can look up to and who inspires you to improve your life or your work or even both. I have my photographic heroes. Perhaps surprisingly not all of them are landscape photographers.

You have to know and understand the so called ‘rules of photography ’ before you can break them, but once you have mastered them, you can commit them to your subconscious and start to follow your own inner creativity.

The weather in Britain is wonderful. Well, okay…it’s not always great. But we do get a wide variety of different types of weather. Sun. Hail. Rain. Sleet. Wind. Snow. Sometimes all on the same day.

Understanding the concept behind Black & White Photography Filters will really help your black and white photography. There are some photography concepts that are maddeningly counterintuitive.

Getting Up Early, Staying Out Late: Why Landscape Photographers Work Such Odd Hours Forget spirit levels or waterproof camera covers. The most useful extra piece of kit that a landscape photographer can own is a reliable alarm clock.

Whenever you press the shutter button of your camera you record a moment in time. The faster the shutter speed you use the thinner the slice of time captured. This means that we now record events that are far too fast to be seen with the human eye.

Using ND filters are becoming more common place.  To create an image you need a certain amount of light.

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In this article I will talk about how to ‘set dress’ your garden to create beautiful natural images of garden birds.

I love photographing flowers, and I usually prefer taking photos outdoors, with the flowers in a natural environment.

Understanding Depth of Field Learning how to understand and control depth of field in your photographs is one of the best ways to take your photography to a new level. And it’s not difficult! So what is it, and how do we use it?

Here at MyPhotoSchool we have some terrific online photography courses, but haven’t talked much about panoramic photography.  So today I want to redress this issue, so this weekend’s photography assignment is to go out and shoot a Panoramic.

Wheels are useful metaphors for all sorts of things. Think the ‘Wheel of Life’, the ‘Wheel of Fortune’, the ‘Wheel has come full circle’ and others.

In this article, landscape photographer David Taylor tries his hand at event photography at the launch of a new internet start-up oddly called PurpleBeach and reports back on how he gets on. Event photographers are a special breed.

Life is full of choices. Tea or coffee? Cat or dog? Work or play? RAW versus Jpeg? Quite often there is no right answer. The choice you make could be arbitrary and depend entirely on your mood that day.

Understanding the difference between a full frame camera and its smaller ‘sensored’ siblings What is the crop factor and why is it important? And why do some cameras have smaller sensors in them the their more expensive full frame cousins?

In an earlier article I wrote about sharpness. I very briefly mentioned that keeping still when shooting is important if you want to avoid unsharp photos.

Taking close up photographs can be great fun, and actually quite addictive as you start to discover all sorts of objects, both natural and man-made, that can make wonderful subjects for your camera.

New Basic Panel Sliders (Lightroom) Do you know the difference between the Exposure vs. Highlights vs. Whites tone sliders in Photoshop and Lightroom?

A Beginners Guide to High Key Portraiture I don’t know about you? But the whole getting-to-together, family thing at Christmas fills me with absolute horror.

Subject placement: Where to put your focal point. In many different genres of photography you will have a subject in your photograph with space around it. The subject may for instance be a person, an animal or bird, a flower, a tree or a building.