Having a good subject will make any photograph a lot easier to take. There is a good reason why the photographs that people are happy to look at again and again tend to center around a particular place, person or occasion. And while no subject is good enough to make a bad photographer look...
Opinions are always going to be divided on the question of whether making something easier makes it better. Once upon a time, a camera was pretty much a luxury item – or at the very least, something that you would need to have a real interest in if you were going to own one....
The act of taking a photograph looks incredibly simple. It’s just point, click, done – who could get that wrong? And yet, when we look at holiday photographs or pics taken on a night out, we often see exactly how the seemingly simple photographic process can be got badly wrong. Someone in the photo...
One of the great unwritten rules of photography is that you have to smile when someone is taking your picture. If you don’t, then people will immediately say “Why didn’t you smile? It would look a lot better if you had smiled!”. They will say this even if it is quite clearly not the...