Blog - Photography tips

This post explains how to photograph people against a sunset. If you don't know what you're doing you'll end up with a silhouette of the people all a bleached out sky with no sunset.

This video tutorial explains how to create a composite photo where you have the same person appear in a photo several times.

A series of photography checklists to help you take better photos and avoid a calamitous mistake when working for a client.

You can still take stunning photos even once darkness has descended and you're left in almost total blackness. This post explains how to take stunning photos in darkness too black to see.

There's a bit more to a travel portrait than shoving the camera in someone's face and taking the shot. Charm, humility and a plan of attack are just as important as you photographic knowledge. I need to work on my charm...!

You read all the time about making sure you should have catchlights in a model's eyes. This article looks at when you should light portraits from the front or back.

This tip explains how to improve your HDR photos.

When you're cursed with rain and thick, dull cloud when you're taking travel photos then use some of these tips to help you get the most from your trip.

This is a checklist of equipment and useful / essential items that a travel photographer should take on a foreign assigment.

Tips on the different methods of learning photography and their pros and cons. I have included some fantastic links to great photography websites.

Many amateur photographers treat camera metering modes like George Bush treated climate change - they pretend it doesn't exist, or that it's not important. Well they do exist and they are important, but they are easier to sort out than climate change.

If you have just bought a camera and need to get your head round some of the basic functions then here are a few tips to get you started.

Outdoor portrait photography is more fun and offers more creativity than in a studio in my opinion. Here are a few tips for photographing outdoors.

This photo tip helps you find, visualise and then create great photos in any given situation.

35 landscape photography tips to help you improve. If you're in the Peterborough area I run one to one photography training.

This is a step by step guide to help you upload your photos to Alamy.

Tips on avoiding burnt out skies and other problems with contrast in your photos. If you're in the Peterborough area I run one to one photography training.

Tips for photographing wildlife in winter and some key reasons why winter is great for photographing wildlife and landscapes.

It's good practice to always have a project on the go if you want to get the most from your photography.

Some useful tips for photographing wildlife. There is a strong angle towards common mistakes (all of which I have already made), as learning what not to do it as important as what to do.