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

Black & right • Kingsley Singleton shares nine simple tips, tricks and ideas to help improve your monochrome photography

Black & white summer • While moody monochrome scenes aren’t usually associated with summer, Tim Clinch suggests setting yourself a challenge by shooting in black & white

Winter wonderland • Three of the UK’s top landscape photographers deliver their most useful and inspiring tips for capturing stunning black & white winter landscapes

Courage and conviction • Working on a project to capture every lifeboat station in Britain and Ireland in an ambrotype, Jack Lowe tells Ailsa McWhinnie why he’s a man on a mission

St Michael • Minimalism and printing master Michael Kenna reflects on his stellar career, spirituality, the film revival and much more with Geoff Harris

Shoot striking B&W portraits • Photographer Peter Müller reveals the secrets behind how he shoots superb mono portraits using Rotolight’s system

Pilgrim’s progress • Alys Tomlinson’s powerful project ‘Ex Voto’ won the main prize at the 2018 Sony WPA. She talks to Amy Davies about her life since the win

Fine art focus • Photographer Reka Nyari is rapidly gaining a reputation worldwide for her striking fine-art imagery, often of powerful women. Steve Fairclough spoke to her about her career thus far

Playing the long game • Successful long-exposure work requires patience, previsualisation and confident processing, says Vassilis Tangoulis. He talks to Tracy Calder about his personal vision

Seeing another light • If you’ve ever had the urge to try a new discipline, such as infrared photography, grab yourself a second-hand bargain and get it converted, says Paul Gallagher

Lensless landscapes • Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day takes place on the last Sunday of April each year. Hollie Latham Hucker talks to Steve Gosling about his passion for the art

Black & white film essentials • Whether you are new to 35mm film photography or want to get back into it, Matt Parry explains the key considerations for shooting and developing mono

Stretching yourself creatively • 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

Story of the blues • Keen to get more creative? Angela Chalmers reveals how working with the historic cyanotype process can generate really eye-catching images

The bible for both amateur & professional photo-enthusiasts!

Print perfection • With a blend of digital and analogue techniques, amateur photographer Matt Walkley is creating a compelling body of work. Here, he tells Amy Davies all about it

Extreme black & white • Want a bolder b&w look, including infrared effects? Martin Evening shows how to make your conversions sing using Photoshop’s Camera Raw

Craft stunning black & white photos with ease • Discover how to convert to monochrome with ultimate control in Photoshop CC, Lightroom and Elements. James Paterson explains all you need to know

Stylish black & white • Create high-quality mono conversions using the powerful Silver Efex Pro 2 Photoshop plug-in. James Abbott outlines the key features and presets

Get the black & white film look • Transform your digital images into black & white analog classics by using simple tools. James...