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How to Take Better Landscape Photographs – 20 Tips
How do you make your landscape photographs stand out from the crowd? You set up your tripod at some often photographed location. The scenery around you is stunning. Great, but what next? How do you...
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Photographing the Bridges of Dublin at Dawn
Early Morning Photography along the Quays of the River Liffey I was recently asked what my favourite time of the day for taking photographs was. This was an easy one. Early morning is by far my...
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Putting Together a Photographic Portfolio
Selecting Photographs for a Photographic Portfolio – A Tricky Process Why do we hardly ever print our photographs anymore? It seems that in this era of tablets and smart phones that nearly all of our...
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How to Focus on Landscapes Using Hyperfocal Distance
Ensure maximum sharpness and depth of field in your landscape photographs. Do you want to maximise your chances of taking beautiful landscape photographs that are pin sharp from the foreground all the...
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Featured Photos: The Pont des Arts at Night, Paris
Evening Photography along the Banks of the River Seine Paris is without a doubt one of my favourite photography locations. It is the City of Light after all! The area around the Pont des Arts is a...
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Featured Photos: The Charles Bridge, Prague
Photographing the Charles Bridge during Blue Hour. One thing has to be said right at the beginning: Prague is seriously good looking city! If you haven’t been yet, GO! I’ve rarely visited a city so...
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Featured Photos: The Dublin Docklands
Photographing the Docklands, Dublin’s Financial Quarter. When I was a child, the Dublin Docklands was a derelict no-go area, unless you wanted to be relieved of your wallet. Today however, the...
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Guide to Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO – Exposure Triangle
Understanding Photographic Exposure This guide to photographic exposure aims to help you take full control of your camera. I often tell my students that I want them to move away from the idea “taking a...
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25 Photographs from Paris – The City of Light
A Selection of my Favourite Photos from the Beautiful City of Paris Paris and photography seem made for each other. After all it was the French who invented photography! I’ve been visiting Paris for...
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Review: Lightroom Presets by Sleeklens
Review the “Through the Woods” set of Lightroom presets by Sleeklens I’d never really considered using Lightroom presets before. It just never really crossed my mind. And so, it was with a sense of...
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Featured Photos: Piazza San Marco at Night – Venice
Photography and Classic Rock on St Mark’s Square, Venice. Venice has been on my bucket list for some time now. There really is no other city like it in the world. Other cities like Amsterdam and...
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Featured Photos: O’Connell Street – Dublin
Photographing Dublin’s Grandest Thoroughfare at Blue Hour O’Connell Street in its current form started life in the late 1700s as a residential development for some of the more posh and wealthy...
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Featured Photo: Sunburst Over Paris
The Eiffel Tower is a pretty terrible place to view Paris from. After all you can’t see the most famous structure in Paris when you’re up there….. The Eiffel Tower itself. A much better option is the...
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Guide to Composition in Photography – 20 Tips
Improve your photographic composition by following these guidelines. There are no unbreakable rules when it comes to how you should compose your photographs After all, who likes rules except for your...
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Featured Photos: The Eiffel Tower, Paris
Photography and Dodging Drunks at the Eiffel Tower. Today, we know the Eiffel Tower as the much beloved symbol of Paris. It wasn’t always like this though. In fact, many Parisians were not too fond of...
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Featured Photo: Amsterdam at Night
Amsterdam is a unique and fascinating place. The city contains 100 kilometres of canals and over 1500 bridges all surrounded by some very handsome Dutch architecture. I spent a few days there a few...
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Guide to Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO is now available to Download as a PDF.
A while ago I published a “Guide to Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO“. The tutorial was very popular and I got a lot of great feedback. First of all, thank you to all who commented and offered...
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Featured Photos: Mediterranean Seascapes in Tunisia
Tunisia is a sometimes troubled country. The last few years have been traumatic to say the least. It is nonetheless a fascinating place that provides plenty of photographic opportunities. It is also...
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10 Photos of Dublin at Christmas Time
I love Christmas time. I love almost everything about it even the Christmas jumpers. I especially enjoy walking around Dublin city soaking up the festive atmosphere during December. The Christmas...
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Guide to Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO – Exposure Triangle
Understanding Photographic Exposure This guide to photographic exposure aims to help you take full control of your camera. I often tell my students that I want them to move away from the idea "taking a...
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