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Natural light tricks for overcast days – light direction
If you’re a natural light photographer, your photography life is wrapped around wishing for good light, in the right place at the right time of day. If you’re in the UK, where the light is just dull for much of the year, it is even more of an obsession. So, here are...
Why the rule of space is so powerful in composition
As with all composition techniques that start with the word “rule”, it is not so much a rule as a guide for when we’re composing images. The rule of space is an easy rule, but quite an effective one for creating a sense of movement, a feeling, a little intrigue and...
Beautiful bokeh tips and tricks PLUS a DIY bokeh filter tutorial
As we’re heading into shorter days and longer nights, in the northern hemisphere at least, I thought this would be a good time for a tutorial on how to create bokeh backgrounds and foregrounds. It is something you can do indoors and images with beautiful bokeh make...
Image Quality – the pros and cons of RAW vs JPEG
If you’ve been photographing for a while, you’ll have heard that for good image quality, the best file format to shoot in is RAW rather than JPEG. But, do you know why that is the case? If you're new to photography and don't know about shooting in RAW, here are some...
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