Mike Browne

You can set up home photo studio lighting kits in a surprisingly small space so it's probably a lot less of an upheaval that you might imagine. Maybe move a bit of furniture out the way and you're ready for portraits, still lifes and…

This is an exercise you can do to help you understand how light works when you're shooting an outdoor portrait. There's all kinds of different light to be found in all sorts of nooks, crannies and unlikely places. For portraiture…

You can shoot awesome photos on cloudy days. I get asked 'How to do photography on cloudy, grey, overcast days' a lot. Look at the light qualities (not quantity) and compose images around the light. I'm back in Zurich at Pfäffikersee…

Where is the best place to get your digital photos printed? If you're really keen you can print at home and it's kind of fun to watch your images appear. But you have to calibrate your printer to your already calibrated monitor and that's…

You don't need a fancy location to practise and learn composition in photography. You can compose images anywhere you like and whilst you do that, you can be practising exposure, trying different length lenses, depth of field etc. Then…

Macro photography is all about the ability to get in very close to your subject so it can fill the frame completely. There are specialist macro lenses which have fixed focal lengths, but you don't have to have a special lens to shoot…

What's meant by Backlighting? Backlighting simply means having the light coming towards the camera from behind whatever it is you're photographing. It's also called shooting against the light. Yes I know we were all told to put the light…

Once you've sorted out your studio lights, it's time to set up your home photo studio. You could use a spare room so it's more permanent. Or just push the furniture to one side for a couple of hours. In how to set up a home photo studio…

In How To Set Up a Home Photo Studio Parta we looked at different light modifiers like soft boxes and umbrellas as well as how shooting through vs reflecting off a translucent umbrella affects lighting. Initially I'm going to show you…

When us photographers can't find something interesting to photograph it's not the location that's boring - it's our imagination letting us down. I find it hard to get excited about where I live because I've seen it all thousands of times…