Harry Flashman

Portraiture is a very lucrative branch of photography.  Get good at getting flattering portraits and you could even give up your day job....

Great images do not just “happen” - they are “made”.  But when I say “walls” I mean the walls in your living room,...

Everyone would like to take photographs that make the viewers go, “Wow!  Wish I’d taken that.”  Well it is not so hard, once...

There is absolutely nothing metaphysical about photography.  Taking photos invokes only physical laws, and there is no camera yet invented that can get...

Camera technology is accelerating at an enormous pace.  It only seems like a couple of years ago when we were looking at mini...

Despite the advent of technologies that we now take for granted, such as auto-exposure and ‘instant’ review of shots, the practice of photography...

I could finish this week’s column by answering the “Do you really need a tripod?” by just writing one word - “YES!”  However,...

Who hasn’t fallen over in the past 12 months?  If you didn’t, then you are lucky.  The statistics puts it about every 10...

Norman Parkinson has been dead for many years, but the photographic world is that much poorer without him.  He was a photographer who...

One aspect of photography, which is generally ignored by the amateur, is ‘Still Life’.  This is a shame because shooting still life can...