Photography in Whitby: Understanding the Exposure Triangle
Sometimes, a short photography trip is all you need to put your camera skills to the test. During a family holiday to Filey, I decided to take a solo detour to Whitby, a place I had never properly explored with my camera…What followed was a great practical reminder of why understanding the exposure triangle is so important
7 Photography Questions Every Photographer Should Know the Answer To
Photography can get complicated very quickly.
There are hundreds of camera settings, technical terms and different ways of doing things, but you don't necessarily need to understand all of them to take better photographs.
Sometimes, understanding one simple concept can make a much bigger difference.
So, here are seven photography questions that are worth knowing the answer to, including a couple of concepts that are often misunderstood.
Breaking Photography Boundaries
breaking rules and the boundaries that come with them is a quintessential aspect of art ‘the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination’. Imagination should not be bound by pre-conceived notions placed upon an artistic pursuit by others.
One photographer who understood this perhaps better than many was the American photographer William Eggleston.
Why Learning Photography on YouTube is Hard
Why Learning Photography on YouTube is Hard
In this video, the photographer discusses the accepted stages of learning different skills within photography. You can find the link to the video at the foot of this page, but firstly here are the key themes and takeaways:
A Guide to Landscape Photography and Light: Section 1 - Quality of Light
Photography of any kind begins with light. Light is the key fundamental. It is our raw ingrediant as photographers. Whilst Landscape Photography doesn’t allow for us to change the light on a whim, we can still take control of it through our understanding of how light will impact our landscape photographs......
One Day In The Peak District
One Day In The Peak District. An itinerary of landscape photography locations in the Peak District if you only have one day. One Day in the Peak District blog includes parking locations via Google Maps plus timings and insights into each Peak District photography location visited
Manchester Photography at Night
Manchester has always been a city of juxtaposition and in these photographs, I wanted to capture that juxtaposition. The vast high rise urban homes rising above the tranquil water top dwellings of others. Manchester’s transport isn’t restricted to just roads, trains, or tramways. The famous canals that run through the city centre and throughout Greater Manchester pay homage to the foundations of the city.
Photography and The Secrets of Light
Understanding light is crucial for landscape photography because light is photography. It’s fundamental in shaping composition, creating depth and elevating the visual appeal of our images. And learning to observe light, rather than just see light, will place our photographs in a bracket above a large percentage of the masses…..
Photographing Low Key Fine Art Photography
I was recently commisioned to photograph some low key fine art images of a sculptured art installation at a local park in Greater Manchester. Each of the set of eight wooden sculptures, dotted around a nature trail, posed it’s own unique challenge due to the location. Some of the sculptures set out in the open, others hidden deep in the woodland or recessed into hedgerow……
Things Click on a Lake District Photography Workshop
How often do we check ourselves? Question what we are doing? Deliberate whether the choices we make, the actions we take and the things we see are the most conjucive to the photograph we want to create? And if we do ask those questions, how truthful or relevent are the answers we give ourselves?
It’s one of the biggest obstacles in photography. And perhaps the most compelling reason to even book onto a one-to-one photography workshop. It’s a stage of learning, and one that many photographers get trapped at.
Landscape Photography: The Moment Of WOW!
It is far too easy to ruin an otherwise beautiful shot by overthinking it.How do I know this? I’ve done it, loads of times! And quite often, I’ve done it in pursuit of things unnecessary for the shot the landscape has presented.
Yep, I’ve been THAT photographer. You know the one….
Landscape Photography: The Endless Pursuit
One of the bad photography habits I've gotten myself into over the last few years is 'whatifid-ism'. Basically the habit of looking back on a photograph, a photograph that I'd once been really happy with, and had loads of great memories of creating, and tearing it apart as I now have new found knowledge or a different way of doing things…….
5 of the best Peak District views for landscape photography
The Peak District has fantastic views throughout its 540+ square miles. It is an area for iconic landscape photography and whilst it would be nigh on impossible to list every single fantastic Peak District view in this one blog post, it is possible to give you my opinion on 5 of the best for landscape photography. And I say ‘best’ Peak District views because these are 5 views of the Peak District that any landscape photographer that is visiting the Peak District would definitely want to take in, and are listed in no particular order.
Landscape Photography: A Technical Skill?
It may seem strange to think of a photograph being able to elicit powerful human emotions, but this is exactly what a good photograph does. So why do we photographers devote more conversations, more column inches, more videos and more podcasts to the technical side of photography rather than the artistic and emotional side?
Landscape Photography into 2023 and Beyond
….The truth of the matter is that I did far less landscape photography in the second half of the year than the first. There is no doubt that I lost some of my mojo for it. I love the adventure of landscape photography as much as the actual photography itself. Going somewhere I’ve never been before. Exploring and finding a view point that makes me go wow! That’s the part I love, far more so than pressing the shutter on my camera…..
Fantasy Forest in the Peak District National Park
….Instantly I was stuck with the location. I could envisage mist, some dappled side light, and the possibility of a shadowy figure heading towards me. I’ve got a lot to thank that photographer for - unfortunately I have no idea of his/her name - as I instantly decided that I had to visit this place and create the shot that I could see in my minds eye…..
Photographing a Peak District Cloud Inversion
This week I finally managed to photograph a Cloud Inversion. A Landscape Photography aim of mine for quite some time, and I thought I'd share some tips so you could have the best chance of forecasting one for yourself
Lake District Landscape Photography Locations - My Top 5
Yep, that’s correct. the Lake District National Park only has one official lake; Bassenthwaite Lake. the rest are all tarns, meres or waters by name…..there’s one for your pub quiz bank!
In reality of course, there are many more, with sixteen large bodies of water and seventy six smaller ones that could still typically be classed as a lake.
And so let’s take a look at a few that, as a photographer, you should not miss.
Can I Ask A Stupid Question? Learning Landscape Photography - Be Nice!
‘Can I ask a stupid question’?…….But it rarely is a stupid question.
Something that I’ve come to understand over the last couple of years is that if you don’t know, you don’t know. And that actually makes the question itself really difficult to even ask. Why would you ask how, for example, you would set up a tripod, if you don’t know that you are setting it up incorrectly in the first place?……….
Landscape Photography: Graft For Your Craft
However, despite checking the weather forecast thoroughly the night before, I arrived to find nothing but grey low cloud blocking any light and reducing visibility down to not much. So another bust…..all part of the landscape photography deal here in the UK.
And so to the third visit. We had almost clear skies. There was a bank of cloud low on the horizon, but this would just serve to diffuse some of the light and create haze rather than block the light completely.