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I have survived with my kit lens through many a fantastic photo opportunity. We have been through a lot together and produced some incredible images, so in no way am I saying skip your kit lens or throw it aside…because my kit lens is great. The real question is, can I carry on with just [...]

With a personal love for what I can only express as Grunge Photography, I find the city and its hidden corners a beautiful place to photograph. Abandoned buildings and cement textured elements bring out the best in me and my camera.
Leaning towards this style I was drawn to the work of a German-born photographer who [...]

Contre~Jour; meaning ‘Against the Light’.
Contre-Jour photography places the light behind the subject, turning the subject into a silhouette.
Silhoette photography is much more about shapes and patterns that it is about recreating a given scene.
Here is how you achieve Contre-Jour photography:
The first obvious step is for you to place your subject in-between yourself and your light [...]

We’ve all seen those adverts where an estate agents manages to make a cardboard box apartment look like the penthouse suite of a five star hotel. The art is in the photography.
 
Interior photography can be a bit tricky because lighting is an issue and if your outside lighting is very different from your inside lighting [...]

It is so easy to get caught up in the excitement of a photo shoot or the adventure of an outing with friends and family. It’s so easy to get caught up and forget to check your camera settings while you are smiling and snapping away.
The result – you will find – as you check [...]

The Rule of Thirds is to photography what The Golden Ratio is to life.
How you compose and structure your subject and details within your frame will make or break your photograph

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Attending photography school or classes, you would find that one of the first things you are taught is The Rule of Thirds.
The manner in which [...]

To anyone but a food photographer, it might seem really odd to whip out your camera and start snapping away at your dinner before you eat it… but there are many reasons why you would want to take photos of a patiently created dish.
Perhaps you are making a scrap book of all your recipes? Or you [...]

Long exposure happens to be one of my favorite forms of creative photography. Of course I believe that all photography is creative, but long exposure gives you that extra sense of expression. Instead of aiming for the ‘perfect setting’ and the ‘perfect shot’ you are now free to create that shot the same way a [...]

Yip, it’s true! I was really excited when I came across the instructions (you see it really does pay to read your cameras manual) on how to take a series of shots which can be turned into a High Dynamic Range image.
What is a High Dynamic Range image?
In wikipedia words: “techniques that allow a greater [...]

(USING MICROSOFT OFFICE PICTURE MANAGER)
We know that size really does count when you are trying to upload one of your photographs to a website or you are trying to email it to a friend but it is way to big and it’s just sitting in your outbox while your computer tries hard not to crash….and [...]