How to make the best use of natural light to create stunning landscape images My winter online talk, Light in the Landscape, went out live on Zoom in early December, and you can watch the recording here. Below is also an article that encapsulates the talk’s content. I hope you’ll enjoy both! During the talk, Nigel broke light in the landscape down into a number of components to help overcome the potentially overwhelming myriad of different components. Firstly, there’s the angle of the sun relative to the subject and the photographer, something that is relevant at all times. Secondly, there ..read more

The art and skill in creating moody images with a strong subject and zero clutter and distractions My latest talk, Less Is More: the Art of Minimalism, went ahead live online on 20th September 2023, and you can now watch the recording any time on You Tube and right here. Just click on the link below. Keeping the images clean and super simple When we talk about Less is More what do we actually mean? Well, in photography at least it means the art of cutting away all the confusing clutter from the image frame. The result is an image with a single strong subject that stands almost alone in the ..read more

Using wide-angle lenses to convert ordinary scenes into dramatic, high energy images My summer online photography talk, The Power of the Wide-angle Lens, took place live on 21st June. In this talk I covered the principles of when and why to you should use a wide-angle lens, particularly in the context of aiming to create dramatic, powerful images that have an impact. A recording of the talk is now on You Tube, and you can watch the recording below. I hope you’ll enjoy it! So what is a wide-angle lens? Before we can assess the power of the wide-angle lens, we must first establish what a wid ..read more

What to point your camera at this spring My first free online talk of 2023 went ahead on 22nd March, entitled Seasonal Springtime Photography. This talk covered the kinds of subject matter you might want to point your camera at during this season of rebirth and new growth. A recording of the talk is now on You Tube, and you can watch it by clicking on the link below. Photographing the reawakening of the natural world Not surprisingly, much of our seasonal springtime photography consists of the natural world, and the processes by which it reawakens at this time of year. This is particularly ..read more

Landscape photography along our seashores My fourth and final online talk of 2022 went ahead on 7th December, during which I covered the skills and techniques often used with creativity in coastal photography. The whole talk can be watched simply by clicking on the You Tube link below. I hope you’ll enjoy it! You can also read on through this blog, which summarises much of what’s in the talk. Capturing the beauty of the shore From calm, sheltered estuaries, to wide and sweeping sandy beaches, to wild and rugged cliffs, there is so much subject matter to help us with creativity in coastal p ..read more

What to point your camera at this coming season My autumn photography talk went ahead on Zoom on 21st September, this season’s subject entitled Autumn Photography: Capturing the Season. Predictably, it was all about the kinds of things you could be photographing during the autumn, many photographers’ favourite photography season. The full talk can be watched below. Just click on the image to start the video. Autumn colours, one of the season’s top subjects When getting stuck into some autumn photography to capture the season, inevitably one of the top choices of subject matter is going to ..read more

A personal approach to handling and processing photographs post-photography In his December 2021 talk Nigel outlines his own in-computer photo workflow, the steps through which he handles and processes his images post-photography. That talk is now on You Tube, and you can watch it right here. Just click on the image below to start. From RAW file to finished Tiff Downloading, captioning and keywording My in-computer photo workflow makes use of three programmes: Adobe Bridge, Adobe Photoshop and Capture One Pro. Using these I’m able to bring all my images from basic RAW files straight off th ..read more

An online talk that gives inspirational ideas about what to photograph during the cold and short days of winter Home In Nigel’s November talk, held live on 17th Nov, he aimed to inspire photographers not to put their cameras away during the winter. There is some great photography during the winter months, those short cold days a time of day-long low sunlight, dramatic storms, and over-wintering wildlife. A recording of this talk is now on You Tube, and you can watch it here. Just click on the link below. Looking for subjects during the winter months There is a temptation for photographers ..read more

Nigel’s October 2021 online photography talk In October’s online talk, Nigel covers many of the basic principles of close-up photography, explained in clear and unambiguous terms. Often also called macro photography, the subject covers the photography of both very close details and/or patterns in a host of subjects, and the photography of very small subjects. It is particularly widely used in wildlife photography, to enable the shooting of small animals and plants, such as butterflies, damselflies and many of the smaller wild flowers. A recording of that talk is now available on You Tube, and ..read more

Creating a set of images that tell a story My September 2021 online photography talk was held recently, the subject this time Storytelling Through Photography. This is the art of creating a set of images that tell a story about an event, a place or a person, something that is very different from simply shooting high quality stand-alone images. When telling a story, the images must work together as a team, with no single image dominating the others and distracting attention away from the aim of the story. The talk is now available on You Tube, and so can be watched here. Just click on the imag ..read more