Practical Photography - UK (2020-02)

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1

Framea view

Walkingaround

with a simple

viewingframe– easily

madefromblackcard

• canbea quickwayto
  determinea potential
  compositionwithout
  unpackingyourfullkit.

2

Trya new

aspecTraTio

Breakawayfrom

theusual 3 :2aspectratio.

I findthat 3 :2workswell

forstraightlandscape

images,butdon’tdiscount

16 :9fora widerpanoramic

feel.I alsosometimesuse

a MicroFourThirds

camera,whichisperfect

forportrait-orientated

landscapes.Thesquare

or1: 1 ratioisidealfor

boldgraphicimageswith

centrallyplacedelements.

3

sTaycle an

Lookafteryour

equipmentand

it willserveyouwell.

Onreturningfroma shoot,

I cleanfilters,lenses,

tripodsandinsidemybag,

especiallyifI’vebeento

thebeach.Thenrecharge

batteriesinpreparationfor

thenexttrip.

4

planyour

journey

Determinewhere

youwanttogoandspend

timeforwardplanning.

Howlongwillthejourney

take?Keepaneyeonthe

weatherandtidetimes.

Allowtimeforwalkingto

a location,especiallyat

dawnordusk.Research

theviewpointsthatmay

work.Veryoftensome

ofmy bestimageshave

beenthose‘found’shots

thathaveresultedfrom

a plannedexcursion.

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invaluable when placing a bag or sitting
on damp ground, or as a rain cover, and
have been used to collect other people’s
rubbish, inconsiderably discarded.

is there a deeper meaning in your work?
i don’t think i’ve ever considered that my
work has any kind of deeper meaning or

complicated narrative – it is what it is.

however, i do dare to think that in

the years to come there are those that

might look at my work as a reference to

somewhere that, for whatever reason,

unfortunately doesn’t exist anymore,

especially living in such a fragile

environment as we do now.

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