Real-life perspective – Squeeze box man
The idea of street documentary is to show the viewer what it is like to be in the place you are shooting – and to experience the things you are […]
Converging verticals – fix by cropping
A method of avoiding converging verticals that is open to everybody is shooting wide and cropping the result. In short the camera is fitted with a wide angle lens and […]
B&W conversion – Green Channel
Colour images converted to black and white using the green channel have quite a distinctive look that is great for creating the feel of all classic images. In the days […]
Sense of scale – Waiting to cross
This shot is part of a series I made of street pictures taken from ground level. We are so used to seeing street scenes from the normal standing position that […]
The right content and angle – Orlando Calling
It’s often the case that I ‘see’ a picture, or at least a potential picture, in a split second, but it then takes me more than a few seconds to […]
Low angles – Crane Fly
This is a fairly simple idea for making macro or close-up shots more interesting and more unusual. I know I have spent ages in the past trying to get close […]
Capturing movement – Blue Bamboo
These are not my bamboo plants – they belong to my wife. But I’m the one who chats to them, waters them and feeds them. They’ve grown really tall, and […]