Conquering your fears in street photography – Part 3

Become a better street photographer by building your confidence. Street photographer and workshop leader Brian Lloyd Duckett tells you how to conquer your fears in the final installment of this three part series.

By Brian Lloyd Duckett

Brian Lloyd Duckett is a professional street photographer who runs workshops across the UK and Europe. He shoots exclusively on Fujifilm, the X100F being his weapon of choice. In this three part guide, which aims to build your confidence, Brian gives you an insight in to what he teaches to help you become a better street photographer. Continue reading “Conquering your fears in street photography – Part 3”

Conquering your fears in street photography – Part 2

Become a better street photographer by building your confidence. Street photographer and workshop leader Brian Lloyd Duckett tells you how to conquer your fears in the second installment of this three part series.

By Brian Lloyd Duckett

Brian Lloyd Duckett is a professional street photographer who runs workshops across the UK and Europe. He shoots exclusively on Fujifilm, the X100F being his weapon of choice. In this three part guide, which aims to build your confidence, Brian gives you an insight in to what he teaches to help you become a better street photographer. Continue reading “Conquering your fears in street photography – Part 2”

Conquering your fears in street photography – Part 1

Become a better street photographer by building your confidence. Street photographer and workshop leader Brian Lloyd Duckett tells you how to conquer your fears in this three part series.

By Brian Lloyd Duckett

Brian Lloyd Duckett is a professional street photographer who runs workshops across the UK and Europe. He shoots exclusively on Fujifilm, the X100F being his weapon of choice. In this three part guide, which aims to build your confidence, Brian gives you an insight in to what he teaches to help you become a better street photographer. Continue reading “Conquering your fears in street photography – Part 1”

Here comes the sun – a guide to photographing sunbeams

Want to learn how to capture those dramatic sunbeams, starbursts or beautiful back-lit scenes? X-Photographer Chris Upton has some very useful advice!

By Chris Upton

Photography is all about the light and, as landscape photographers, we are constantly searching for the most interesting and evocative lighting conditions. Without it our pictures can be dull and lacklustre but when Mother Nature performs her magic, the landscape is transformed enabling us to capture some stunning imagery.

Some of my favourite conditions are shooting into the sun to capture those dramatic sunbeams, starbursts or beautiful back-lit scenes. Although this is counter intuitive to everything we are taught early in our photographic journey, this technique helps emphasise, shapes, lines and silhouettes to produce some striking images.

Here are some hints and tips to help you capture atmospheric sun kissed images. Continue reading “Here comes the sun – a guide to photographing sunbeams”

How to capture the true personality of your subject behind the lens

Commercial and editorial photographer James Bellorini is no stranger to portrait photography and has captured many faces on camera but how does he ensure that he always captures the true personality of his subject behind the lens?

Commercial and editorial photographer James Bellorini is no stranger to portrait photography and has captured many faces on camera, including entrepreneurs, performers, DJs and musicians. We wanted to ask James for his advice on how to capture a subject’s true personality behind the lens. Continue reading “How to capture the true personality of your subject behind the lens”

IN FOCUS: 11 inspiring photography locations around the world

IN FOCUS is a series of articles where we ask some of the UK X-Photographers to give us advice, provide insight into their photography and share some of their favourite images of all time. In this blog, we wanted to go in search of the most inspiring locations for photography.

IN FOCUS is a series of articles where we ask some of the UK X-Photographers to give us advice, provide insight into their photography and share some of their favourite images of all time. In this blog, we wanted to go in search of the most inspiring locations for photography.


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