Every year there’s plenty of talk about new cameras, smarter software and, more recently, the rise and rise of AI-driven image making, whether in or out of the camera. It's easy to lose focus on the art of photography with all this chatter about about...
Trigger warning: This article may cause offence because it encourages you to dispense with a “much followed” rule in photographic composition and instead develop a more critical approach to seeing and composing. If you love following rules in a mindless, drone-like way, we advice that...
Photography is often taught as the craft of guiding the viewer’s eye into the frame. Compositional techniques—leading lines, framing, rhythmic repetition—are treated as visual stepping stones that guide the gaze smoothly through an image. Yet photography is equally capable of cultivating interruptions: small visual moments...
Are you leveraging the power of in-camera picture styles? You may have come across them while scrolling through your camera's menu items. Modern digital cameras come loaded with a range of built-in picture styles -- Canon's Picture Styles, Nikon's Picture Controls, Sony's Creative Styles, OM System's Picture Modes and Art Filters,...
As photographers, we all reach points in our creative journey where we seek honest, insightful feedback, whether it's just for improving our own creative work, or for images that we might be considering entering into competitions and awards. It's a fact that constructive critique, taken on...
At the heart of meaningful photography lies this very simple question: "What do I care enough to notice?" It is a question that has nothing to do with equipment or focal lengths or exposure settings, and everything to do with the your inner landscape as a photographer....
Shooting in hard, direct sunlight — what it gives you (and takes away) You know the old photographer's adage: "Shoot in the golden hour. The light is beautiful. Shoot in open shade. The light is soft and flattering." It's become dogma for many happy snappers, that we...
The visual arts has always been one of the most compelling endeavours of humanity. And photography has endured the test of time, from the first daguerreotypes to more contemporary digital creations. We all love a great photo: one that makes us stop, look, think, reflect...
This is going to sound controversial but I think there is so much mimicry in photography nowadays that the medium is at risk of crumbling into stale banality. While we may blame images-based social media (such as Instagram), the fact is that photographers have long sought...
I don't know where it's come from, but many photographers have become so consumed with “getting it right in camera” that sometimes we forget the most important part of photography: seeing. And I don’t mean glancing at the LCD screen to see what aperture, shutter speed...