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Commercial Photography
By embracing natural and available light, I nurture your own commercial photography so that it that feels authentic, relatable, and impactful. Whether you need branding photography, product photography, lifestyle imagery, or corporate visuals, my approach ensures your images will stand out with a clean, organic, and timeless quality.
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Time at Anchor: Friday Image With Words – Simple Photography Tips by Michael Blyth
This image, taken on a photo-journal trip in the Ionian Sea, can be read many ways. For me, the suggestion is that time at anchor is not wasted. Planning the route ahead when you're not having the demands of life interfering with every thought, is a place of wisdom.
Michael Blyth
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What Steam, Angle and Distance Do to a Photograph – Simple Photography Tips by Michael Blyth
There was a moment in the cooking where quite a lot of moisture was rising from the mix. It provides a good illustration of one of the hazards of photographing food, but also the same thing can be a benefit.
Michael Blyth
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Friday Image With Words: The Eye Looks, The Heart Notices – Simple Photography Tips by Michael Blyth
Here's the challenge - it's time to look afresh, eyes and heart combined. Don't make excuses, it takes two to make relationship, and you can start by making your heart pay attention, and be generous in the doing.
Michael Blyth
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Friday Image With Words: "You Are Not Alone" - Simple Photography Tips by Michael Blyth
A fixed wire on a difficult mountain path is a quiet reminder that others have gone before, recognised the challenge, and left something to help. You may be walking the path yourself, but that does not mean you are alone.
Michael Blyth
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Looking Down: Photographing Straight Down – Simple Photography Tips by Michael Blyth
Seek to remove the horizon - it does things to the brain when you do. You Start to look for shape, and balance.
Rowers and kayakers stop being athletes for a moment. They become lines, spacing and rhythm across the water.
Michael Blyth
4 min read
Photographing Buildings at Dusk: When Artificial Light Brings Architecture to Life - Simple Photography Tips by Michael Blyth
The light changes minute by minute during dusk. A sky that feels dull can become rich blue ten minutes later. Artificial lighting strengthens as the winter evening progresses.
Stand still, watch the light change, and let the scene reveal itself before taking the photograph.
Michael Blyth
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Friday Photo Inspiration By Michael Blyth “Beauty Perceived" Presents "Learning To See"
An old door, photographed in France, in desperate need of a rub-down and a coat of paint. But also a thing of beauty, a work of art resulting from the effects of time and weather.
Michael Blyth
2 min read
Simple Photography Tips by Michael Blyth: Indoor Photography and Field of View
With Image Two, I've changed the angle slightly, and cropped in enough to exclude the candlestick. The brain is now much more focused than previously, when it may have been rather distracted.
Because of the background I didn't lower the camera angle, or there would have been too much extraneous junk in the background, and the artificial light, in the form of a spotlight, would have caught the surface of the lens and caused undesirable internal reflections leading to flare
Michael Blyth
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Friday Photo Inspiration by Michael Blyth. "Life Is Tough"
Here are a bunch of variations on the theme of being prepared. Have a read, does anything touch you? Let me know if it does.
These boots are not for dancing; they’re for surviving meetings, with traction.
Boots have a job: keeping me upright while life throws stuff.
If you see these boots, assume the day has “terrain”.
Michael Blyth
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Indoor photography Tips from a kitchen worktop - Simple Photography Tips by Michael Blyth
Image Four, is just another image of the same chunk of rock, and illustrates what a huge choice of potential images can be gleaned from something you spill your coffee on, that you probably have never noticed.
Michael Blyth
5 min read
Take a Sip of Heaven – Simple Photography Tips by Michael Blyth
I sent notification to my subscribers yesterday of a new Level within my Simple Photography Tips. If you've not read it, perahps have a look and see if it's of interest.
Michael Blyth
2 min read
Simple Photography Tips - Celebrating 2025 In Pictures
Celebrating 2025 in Pictures is a stroll through some of the images I’ve used this year to illustrate the joy of photography. As I share and celebrate the year in photographs, I hope you’ll 'join the walk', the same quiet lesson I’ve been learning: to stop more, look more, and accept the images that waft into your awareness.
Michael Blyth
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Friday Photo Inspiration: Simple Photography Tips & Uplifting Insights from Autumn Pumpkins
Not a simple photography tip as such, but more like life inspiration through Photography and Words—a mix of visual with sometimes meaningful reflections.
Do you know anyone for whom this is true, perhaps you? Let me know, I'd be interested.
Michael Blyth
1 min read
Simple Photography Tips – Seeing Artistic Potential in Everyday Objects
There are so many items around like this, with each of them, if you look long enough, and change your angle of view to allow the light to play differently, you will see a multitude of inviting images, pictures that would look great as modern art on your wall.
Let's go through of the twenty or so that I took. Each image records something different, patterns of texture, contrasts of pattern, light playing on different surfaces in different ways.
Michael Blyth
4 min read
Storytelling through pictures – Simple Photography Tips
A friend suggested that I share some of the images, with the thought that you may one day go on a trip that you want to take images of with a view to telling a visual story of the trip - Storytelling through Pictures.
Michael Blyth
8 min read
Simple Photography Tips - Finding Inspiration Through Photography and Words - Beauty in imperfection.
I went for a pint and a think at the Horseshoe Inn. Looking brought me to seeing, and that in turn led to this image. And now to the reflection on the reflections.
Michael Blyth
1 min read
Part two of the joyfulness that comes with adding colour – Simple Photography Tips on colourful fruit photography and the mental health benefits of creativity
If you look long enough, you'll see that it's actually a basket resting on a table - funny how the eye sees things differently sometimes!
It's an image that would be brighter but less rustic if you were to set it up using those ultra-bright fruits from a supermarket.
Michael Blyth
2 min read
Photo-opportunity for this Sunday - Simple Photography Tips Ocean Race Europe 2025 yacht photography
The second leg of the Ocean Race Europe starts off the Royal Yacht Squadron on Sunday.
The yachts will then pass through the narrows at Hurst Point, the same location from which I photographed the Fastnet Race, before skirting round France and heading for a quick stop in Portugal.
Michael Blyth
1 min read
Simple Photography Tips - yacht photography from the shore - Admirals Cup 2025
This image is only possible from a land base when the sea and wind conditions are such that it is of tactical advantage to the yachts to come in close before tacking back across the channel, or in this case a turn of a few degrees to avoid the rocks, but to remain close-hauled in the favourable water / wind conditions.
Michael Blyth
6 min read
Simple Photography Tips - Finding Inspiration Through Photography and Amusing Words
As my photography mentoring gets busier, it feels like the right time to simplify. Last week I started a new weekly series—sharing one of my photographs along with a few thoughtful words of encouragement, laughter or straightforward sass.
Michael Blyth
1 min read
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