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...
The year is about to wrap up, and while it's been a full year of travel, tours and shoots, it seems like it was only last month that the calendar ticked over to 1 January 2025! Does anyone else feel like time is just speeding...
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...
I’ve just experienced two weeks of photographic bliss in Slovenia, scouting locations and opportunities for photo tours in this gorgeous country. Never heard of Slovenia? Have a look at the images. Slovenia is a photographer’s heaven — morning mist, autumn colours, magnificent mountains, mirror lakes,...
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...