WITH our Wilderness Photographer of the Year presented by Mountain Designs up and running we thought we’d offer ten tips for better photography.
Use the light
Light is the key to all photography – whether you’re indoors or outdoors. See how it hits your subject, and more importantly, see where the shadows fall (cameras often don’t ‘see’ shadows the way our eyes do, placing much more emphasis on them). In scenes photographed with harsh shadows cameras will often expose for either the brightest or the darkest parts, thus leaving the other parts with 'blown out' highlights or very black, featureless shadows. Bush pictures, particularly, can suffer from this. So…
