Improve Your Photography

Improve Your Photography is a new series aimed at keen photographers interested in improving their skills and getting some fresh ideas. Each edition explores a different genre, such as landscapes, portraits and nature, and is packed with 100 pages of advice and inspiration from some of the UK’s leading photographers.

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Improve Your Photography

Perfect portraits • From beautifully lit beauty portraits to action sports shots, our top pros offer expert advice to improve your portraiture skills

SUBSCRIBE TODAY & SAVE 22% • Take your photography to the next level with our essential collection of expert tips and techniques from Amateur Photographer and the UKs leading photographers.

Prime portraits • Andy Westlake recommends the best optics to consider, for shooting excellent people pictures

Face time • Is it possible to shoot the same person in 50 different ways and still get creative portraits? The authors of a fascinating book reveal how, in this case, more is more

KIT LIST

People perfect • People offer a fascinating insight into a destination’s culture, traditions and way of life. Matt Parry explains how to get the best out of people for travel portraiture

KIT LIST

MATT’S TOP TIPS FOR ENGAGING TRAVEL PORTRAITS

Paying for pictures

Portraiture style • You can shoot travel portraits in a number of ways; it depends on the subject as well as the environment and how you want to capture it

Get the natural look • Professional photographers from across the globe reveal their look top tips for shooting environmental portraits, documentary portraiture, weddings, action portraits and professional headshots

Lighten up • Take your photography to the next level with a studio lighting set-up at home. James Paterson shows how to get the best from your starter kit

KIT LIST • Basic lights and accessories for a home studio set-up

THE VERSATILITY OF A SINGLE SOFTBOX

10 tips for flash photography

Bare bulb vs softbox vs umbrella

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One light three ways • Amanda Thomas reveals how to use the same light to get different results

KIT LIST

Amanda’s top tips for creative lighting

See the light • Baffled by the essentials of location lighting? Dave Kai Piper shares some illuminating tips for beautifully lit portraits taken both indoors and outdoors

KIT LIST

DAVE’S TOP TIPS FOR LOCATION LIGHTING

Combining artificial with natural light

The art of seduction • Boudoir has become one of the fastest growing areas of photography in recent years. AP went on a shoot in Brighton to find out how to do it well

KIT LIST

POSING AND SHOOTING TIPS

10 top tips for boudoir photography

Major highs • Alice Mann’s project on South Africa’s ‘drummies’ community was the first series to win the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize. She spoke to Amy Davies

ALICE’S KIT

Renaissance man • Inspired by the history of Renaissance and Mannerist paintings, Christian Tagliavini creates crafted portraits of real beauty. Oliver Atwell explores the process behind the images

Tying the knot with mirrorless • Shooting weddings doesn’t have to be back-breaking work. We speak to two photographers who successfully made the switch to mirrorless

Stretching yourself creativity • Yoga masters have been shot before, but not in such numbers using the wet collodion process. The man behind this fascinating project, Francesco Mastalia, talks to Geoff Harris

What you need for wet collodion

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