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Exploring Graffiti and Street Art Around the World – with Simple Photography Tips
What does fascinate me is the range of imagery, and there is an increasing fascination in the whole genre of street art, and the artists involved, both well-known such as: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Banksy, Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey, and Os Gemeos; and the unknown "urban art guerillas"

Michael Blyth
5 min read


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 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 - nurturing your creativity on Rainy Days
So, after so much dry weather, it was raining quite heavily this morning, great for farmers, and cow's that are allowed on pasture.
Also an ideal time for me to get out and take some images to inspire you with simple photography tips for what to do when you're out for a walk in the rain.

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 Light & composition to improve your plant photographs and make them more artistic
some simple photography tips to encourage you to get the best image you can by thinking about the light and the angles involved.

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 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 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 spring flower photos - snowdrops
As I sit here on a glorious, just warm enough, Spring day, writing this, wonderfully able to work outside nd top up some Vitamin D.

Michael Blyth
5 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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