I struggled to answer when a friend asked me how to take better photographs. She was a beginner, and I didn’t think inundating her with concepts like ‘the decisive moment’ would help.
I thought about it and realised that a simple way to improve your photography is to look for three things: an interesting subject, an interesting background, and interesting light.
Interesting is subjective, but you know it when you see it. Good photographs usually have two of these elements, but great photographs have all three. … Continue reading