Take your photography to the next level

Improve your photography skills.

Another way to improve your photography is to set yourself challenges. These can help diversify your portfolio. For example, you may have lots of photos but are missing some nice close-ups. So, set yourself a challenge to capture one close-up image every day. Perhaps you have a weakness in a specific area of photography? Set yourself a challenge to improve that one element.

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One of the best ways to improve your photography is to be inspired by photographers whose work you admire. Follow photographers on social media whose work inspires you. Look at the work of the masters like Ansel Adams, Steve McCurry, and Robert Capa. Read books such as the ‘Bang Bang Club‘ and watch documentaries and movies about photography. Even flicking through photography books or magazines can help inspire you. However, remember the objective should be to be inspired, not copy someone else’s work.

Take your photography to the next level.

This may seem strange advice to someone who is looking to take their photography to the next level. I talk from experience. Don’t get bogged down in the learning process and spend more time learning how to do it than actually doing it. Get out and practice your craft. Experiment! Try out the techniques and tips you are leaning. There is never a time like now to start shooting more.

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I hope these pieces of advice are useful and perhaps offer a slightly different way of looking at your own photography. If you want to follow along with my daily photography postings and musings, come hang with me on Instagram. And if you’re looking for a photographer, I’m for hire!

Use photographs to tell a story.

Tell your story on a regular basis. Practice by taking your camera everywhere you go. Photograph your beautiful, messy, fleeting story every single day. Before you press your shutter, consider how the image you’re capturing will translate from the left to the right. Get your wide-angle lens out and include all the details of the world around you.

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Have you ever come across a photograph that was so rich, so poignant, and so full of life that it took your breath away? An image that forced you to linger a little longer than a casual glance? A photo that brought you right out of your home and into the moment of time that was captured? Every time we press that shutter, we have the opportunity to tell a story. Everyone is a storyteller. No matter where we live, no matter the subjects we photograph, we have a chance to create a narrative.