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Category: Photography

Steve CaplinDecember 9, 2016

Watch the background

THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENCES between professional and amateur photographers. One of the key failings of happy snappers is an inability to look at what’s going on in the background. You’ll often…

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Steve CaplinOctober 27, 2016December 8, 2016

On the horizon

ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL MISTAKES many people make when creating a scene is incorrectly placing people at a variety of sizes. Sure, people further away appear smaller, but how do you…

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Steve CaplinOctober 26, 2016October 31, 2016

Walking in, walking out

SHOW SOMEONE WALKING from one side to the other in a photograph and you have the potential to tell a story. But the story you tell depends on their position in...
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Steve CaplinOctober 26, 2016December 8, 2016

Left, right and centre

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS will almost always frame their pictures so that the subject is dead centre. is is almost always a bad location, as it’s very static and inactive. Better to...
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