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Landscape Photography
This section is to inspire your landscape photography confidence. Nurturing your use of natural light, composition techniques, and inspiring the perfect perspective to create stunning outdoor images. Whether you’re shooting with a DSLR, mirrorless camera, or smartphone, these easy-to-follow tips will improve your skills and inspire you to explore new locations. From dramatic mountains to tranquil beaches, turn your landscape photos into breathtaking visual stories.


Simple Photography Tips - Depth of field problems
If you're using a phone camera then you're sort of stuck with aperture, there being relatively little difference between the lenses. The is no simple photography tip that will change that, nor a complicated photography tip for that matter!
With a DSLR or similar, and depending on your lens choice, you can stick the thing on f22, or whatever is your smallest aperture, and have much more of the flower up large and in focus, along with the background scene also in focus.

Michael Blyth
2 min read


Simple Photography Tips - Choosing your foreground
Five simple photography tips on photographing coastal scenes - Camera and Phone Camera Take time looking at the options you have in the...

Michael Blyth
3 min read


Simple photography tips for time in Seville - or elsewhere
So you're away from home, perhaps on business, maybe a weekend break, alone, or with others. and you Google search 'best things to do in Seville', A whole rank of things come up, but you want to spend time seeking photographic opportunities that are just a bit different. Let's take the listed things and add 'your' perspective.

Michael Blyth
5 min read


Simple Photography Tips - The rule of horizontal thirds
I've referred to the 'Rule of thirds', in many of my blog articles. It's been requested that I do a blog on the rule to perhaps make it clearer for anyone who's unfamiliar with what I was blogging on about (as against blagging on about)

Michael Blyth
3 min read


Simple Photography Tips - how to photograph into the sun
Now your eye, linked to that clever bit of creation known as your brain, takes the scene and ignores all sorts of things that distract from the scene. But your camera, whether big proper one, or phone camera, doesn't do that, so you have to learn some 'techniques'.
Let's have a look at the images I took, and the progression to a 'better' picture.
Lens flare can be fun in places, but not here, it spoils the picture.
How to deal with Lens Flare is today's first Simple

Michael Blyth
4 min read


Simple Photography Tips - Using cloud, and foreground.
The cloud conditions lent themselves to variable and interesting photographs, and I spent some time experimenting with some of the options on how to photograph a windmill like this. I was using my iphone 14.

Michael Blyth
3 min read


Simple Photography Tips - stuck overseas for the weekend - Paris
nine simple photography tips on what to do when you're stuck in a foreign city at the weekend - Camera and Phone Camera Look for a new...

Michael Blyth
6 min read


Simple Photography Tips for You - how to take photo-art - sand, water & light
The light changes, grains of sand and seashells, debris, carried forwards and backwards. Each shell affects the flow and form of the water, each sand ripples does the same, and that changes the way the light can reflect..

Michael Blyth
4 min read


Simple Photography Tips for You - Photographing seashells
So you're walking along the beach, perhaps on holiday, the others are off doing their own thing. You however have your camera of phone-camera. Here are some ideas.

Michael Blyth
4 min read


Simple Photography Tips - take pictures whenever
So let's take your imagination a bit further. You are out for a walk, you may have a few minutes semi-time to yourself away from the busyness of your life. That phone thing currently stuck to your ear, physically or via Bluetooth, has a much more for fulfilling use as a camera.
Look around, anything catch your eye? How about doing something creative? Breathe, relax have some time to yourself, take some pictures of what caught your eye.

Michael Blyth
3 min read


Simple Photography Tips - wild flowers photography - Wild garlic
Taking a walk in our local nature reserve at this time of year is an amazing visual and aural experience. The ground beneath the mixed woodland trees, is carpeted with swathes of wild flowers.
This is my favourite time of year, the early spring flowers like Snowdrops have faded and are disappearing back into the ground whence they came. They've been replaced, dominantly by Primroses and Celandines, which are at their peak now.

Michael Blyth
3 min read


Simple Photography Tips For You - Landscape v Portrait Photographs
Ok, so a very simple discussion here, landscape v portrait photographs.

Michael Blyth
2 min read


Simple Photography Tips for You - Getting better exposure on photos with your phone camera
Let's have a look at getting better exposure on photos with your phone camera.

Michael Blyth
2 min read


Simple Photography Tips - Looking and seeing
Monet, is reported to have been in the habit of standing and looking, for around forty five minutes, before starting

Michael Blyth
5 min read


Simple Photography Tips for you - Using the foreground to improve your photograph
So I'm blessed to live within quite close range of one of the most stunning buildings in the whole wide world - Salisbury Cathedral, and many Saturdays we park on the edge of town, and walk across the ancient water meadows (Link to the charity?) on what is known as The Town Path. The photo's below show the view.
As is often the case, I took the images to illustrate a point and perhaps help you. Many days are sunny and stunning, others you are stuck, perhaps on a tour, or b

Michael Blyth
2 min read


Simple Photography Tips For Busy People - Picture Composition
SIn the summer I was on a short trip to Paris. As it was not specifically a photo-trip I decided that rather than haul a 'proper' camera around in the late summer heat, I'd play around with my i-phone, do some i-phone photography, and give a few photography tips.
Whether you'll find these helpful or not depends partly on your skill-level, and whether it's something you're already familiar.
If you're quite new to the game you will possibly get more from it.

Michael Blyth
2 min read


Simple Photography Tips for You - how to take great photos on your Phone or camera
An introduction to my Simple Photography Tips Blog. Helping you to be more fulfilled with your photography.

Michael Blyth
2 min read
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