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

Stories of the street • Leading street photographers share their words of wisdom, while Geoff Harris takes a look at current trends and best practice

KIT LIST

THE LAW OF THE STREET

Advice from the masters

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 UK’s leading photographers.

Know your rights • Street photography would be more popular if people felt more informed about the legal side, reckons Damien Demolder. He updates us, and considers street photography’s future

The legal angle

Backlighting brilliance • The photographs of Denis Thorpe are an important record of working life in northern England since 1950. Keith Wilson hears the stories behind some of them

Get the shot • Three top photographers share their secrets for capturing successful street images

At the water’s edge • In 2018, the National Maritime Museum brought together four photographers who studied Britain’s piers, pebbles, and promenades intimately. Tracy Calder found out more

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The people person • Trying to tell a country’s story in portraits is no mean feat, but it’s what Niall McDiarmid has set out to do – with great success. Ailsa McWhinnie finds out more

Something of the night • Noted film photographer and darkroom expert Mike Crawford talks us through his Nocturne project, shooting cities after dark on film

The future of iN-PUBLiC street photography • Over the past 22 years, iN-PUBLiC has played a major role in popularising street photography as an approach, so where does it go now? Its founder Nick Turpin explains more

Never forgotten • When Tish Murtha died suddenly in 2013, her work was still relatively unknown. Her daughter Ella is on a mission to spread the word – she tells Amy Davies more

Street view • David Gibson, one of Britain’s best-known street shooters, talks to David Clark about the ethics, practicalities, frustrations and joys of street photography

Six steps to success • Regular AP contributor Peter Dench considers how his approach to his craft could be used by wannabe street photographers

The way we were • For the past 50 years, Homer Sykes has been documenting the British. His newest book covers the first 15 years of his career, and he tells Amy Davies more about it

Facetime • Dave Fieldhouse shares the story behind his micro street project on people on their phones

The shape of the city • Buildings are designed for people, so including a human element in your pictures can help you to tell a story. Tony Sellen talks to Tracy Calder about his skilful black & white technique

Life without mirrors • Small and silent cameras have long been prized in street photography. Here’s why Damien Demolder prefers mirrorless systems for observing everyday life

Damien’s top 10 tips for street photography • Things to consider when out on the streets shooting with your mirrorless camera

POST-PRODUCTION TIPS

Sold up the river • For centuries, the Isle of Dogs was home to a closeknit community of ‘islanders’. But in the late 1980s all this changed, as Mike Seaborne tells Tracy Calder

Exploring new avenues • The pandemic has changed the very nature of street...