Photography TOP TIPS

If we were out taking photos together, and you said to me, ‘hey Simon, how do

I get a great photo of this flower and keep it sharp… but I want the background

out of focus?’

  

I wouldn’t stand there and give you an entire lecture about aperture, exposure

or depth of focus (field). I’d just show you and say, ‘get up to the telephoto end

of your lens, set your aperture priority mode with an f-stop of 2.8, focus on the

flower and fire away.’

  

And you would say, ‘OK’, and you’d get your shot. But unfortunately I’m not

standing beside you...

  

There’s an enormous number of photography books you can choose to help

you, and so much information available on the internet. This is not a book

about all things photographic, a full exposé on photography...


… in Photography TOP TIPS I’ll show you some of the things that I do each

time I pick my camera up; all those little secrets that are not really secrets at all,

but with practice become second nature and transform your photographs from

something ordinary into something extraordinary. I hope this is the next best

thing to enjoying our creativity together.

  

These are the same techniques I teach in my photography classes and I have

assembled them here, all the really important things for you to look out for while

you are actually taking your pictures; so you can record to your memory card

exactly what you have visualised.