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.

Welcome

Improve Your Photography

Textures of travel • Pro travel photographer Jordan Banks shares everything you need to know to get the most from your travels

For urban enthusiasts

For people pleasers

Berlin’s battle scars • Seventy-six years on, the German capital still bears spectacular traces of the battle that ended the Second World War in Europe. Journalist David Crossland photographed them

Give me a break • Heading off on a short city break soon? Keen traveller Geoff Harris shares some tips for getting the best possible shots in a short space of time

KIT LIST

TOP TIPS FOR GREAT SHOTS ON A SHORT BREAK

Making the most of bright light

10 tips for city break shooting

Relics of a Utopia • Peter Dench talks to Laurin Schmid about documenting brutalist ‘Spomeniks’ in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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

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

He shoots… he scores! • Documentary photographer Peter Dench talks about the pleasures and perils of a project, shot in Russia during the 2018 FIFA World Cup

Bright lights, big • Transform your cityscapes into breathtaking images by working harmoniously with ambient and city lights. Matt Parry shows you how

KIT LIST

MATT’S TOP TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR CITY-LIGHT SHOTS

Unreality star • For photojournalist Max Pinckers, the aesthetic of high-powered flash helps to highlight the perceived falseness of life in North Korea. He speaks to Amy Davies

Journey’s end • Celebrating humanity, landscape, environment and wildlife, Travel Photographer of the Year attracts thousands of entries from photographers across the globe. We bring you some of our favourites

Best western • Photographer Jane Hilton has a penchant for the American West. She tells Peter Dench about her travels

Living the dream • Seeing your pictures in a National Geographic title is the ultimate fantasy for many photographers. Amy Davies finds out how some have made it happen

BESPOKE WILDLIFE TOURS • Some of the bespoke tours these award-winning photographers have led in the past

Hand crafted • A new book explores a society of strong matriarchs in Estonia. Peter Dench chats with the photographer to find out more

Cracking shots fewer crowds • Travel photography shouldn’t be a battle through the hordes. Geoff Harris points the way to some of the planet’s less packed, but still very photogenic, places

Take the high road • The motorways of Europe might not sound like the most obvious subject, but they ended up taking Sue Barr on a modern-day Grand Tour

Travellers’ tales • The winning images for the International Travel POTY 2018 contest were outstanding and inspiring. AP speaks to some of the winning photographers about how they shoot a whole world of subjects

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Documenting the fallout • The recent TV series conveyed the full horror of Chernobyl. Peter Dench investigates the area’s continuing appeal to photographers, 33 years on

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