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Travel Photography
In the Travel Photography Tips section of my blog, I share easy, practical tips to help you take stunning travel photos—no matter your experience level. Whether you're on a quick business trip or on holiday, these simple photography tips are here to inspire you, boost your confidence, and help you tell more compelling visual stories.
With mobile phone photography advice, everything is based on my real travel experiences. My goal is to show you how to take better travel photos.
Simple Photography Tips - how to get your exposure right for Sunset photographs
A late evening preamble by the lake to the side of this wart, is an enjoyable experience, and we partook.
Aware of the difficulty with exposure in these conditions, where the eye/brain is so clever, but a camera is not, I took a short series of photos to help you sort your images, and to inspire you to experiment.
Michael Blyth
3 min read
Simple Photography Tips - How to photograph Toads
There was I wandering alongside one of the leats in the Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen, an amazing place of grown-over sand-dunes which are used as a huge water purification system to supply Amsterdam, when I saw a toad.
Michael Blyth
2 min read
Simple Photography Tips - just sit and see what you notice
The scene, although not particularly photogenic as a whole, was one of fascination. The water in the canal next to us, was mostly sunlit, and over the period of time we sat imbibing, the angle of the sun on the water, changed, and with it the reflections, and clarity of the water, and what and how we saw.
Michael Blyth
5 min read
Simple Photography Tips - how to lead the eye in photographs
The Simple Photography Tips I want to share with you are based upon a handful of photographs I took as I walked down, and which centre upon using features to lead the eye.
Michael Blyth
4 min read
Simple Photography Tips - how to photograph that 'lazy Sunday' morning coffee
I thought about you, and wondered if you struggle to get a decent shot of that wonderful mix that hits your palate and sends yum signals to your brain.
So I took a bunch of images to chat about. Yes, a whole series of photos of the same cup of coffee! Forgive me if they're not perfect, I was in a rush - flat-white, if properly brewed get's cool quickly, and I DO NOT LIKE COLD COFFEE when it's supposed to be hot coffee!
Michael Blyth
3 min read
Simple Photography Tips - how to photograph Butterflies
In that fantastic time of year known as summer, we are blessed to see the wonder of the few remaining butterflies. Yes, miserably, in most parts of the world, our pre-occupation with pesticides and monoculture, along with climate change, means there has been a staggering decline in both numbers and species.
For those of us lucky enough to still see these beauties, and whom have the desire to try taking pictures of them, here are a few tips.
Michael Blyth
3 min read
Simple Photography Tips - beach photography, and improve your mental health!
In this case an early sunny summers' morning, and a shuffle along the beach. Why a shuffle? It's the best way to notice things, especially small things. Crouch down if you can, and you'll see a whole bunch more. Even better, crawl if it's sandy.
The whole business of looking until you see is really highlighted when looking at a beach, there are truly so many things that grab your attention, that it's really easy to miss the small stuff.
Michael Blyth
5 min read
More Simple photography tips for time in Seville - or elsewhere - Royal Alcázar Sevilla
Moorish architecture is beautiful, indeed stunning, and some of the best is to be found in the Royal Alcázar of Seville. Islamic modified by later Catholic Monarchs, it is one of the finest examples of Mudéjar architecture.
Photographing such architecture is challenging, and rewarding at the same time.
Michael Blyth
3 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 - when not to take photographs
I want to share with you one of the most important things I've learnt in all the time I've been taking photographs - that there is a time to lay your camera aside and just see.
Michael Blyth
3 min read
Simple Photography Tips for the weekend - make the most of spring - Ferns
Ferns and their fossil remains have been found on every continent, so wherever you are in the world, possibly barring Antarctica, this blog on photographing ferns may be of relevance.
Over the last forty years and more I've been mesmerised by these amazing plants, especially in the spring when they go through the most intricate, and taken many images of the unfurling of the leaves.
Michael Blyth
4 min read
Simple Photography Tips - Look until you see
So there we were, sitting sipping splendid coffee, my mind was on these blogs, and my strapline - "look until you see". So that I did, and here is one of the results.
Michael Blyth
3 min read
Simple Photography Tips - How to photograph the worlds markets
Perhaps you're on holiday, perhaps you live in a city, or near a market town. There are so many similar places in the world where you can go - the local market.
What they all have in common is that they are one of the best places to visit, with your camera or phone-camera. You can photograph people, often with real character showing, if the light is kind there are opportunities to take really atmospheric photographs, and you can get in close and photograph food in it's rawest
Michael Blyth
5 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
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