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Quick tips
Preventing blown-out highlights
Don’t forget the background
Dinner plates in photography
Specialise if you want to get really good
Don’t settle for the most obvious angle
Don’t have a heavy dew? Then fake it
Working with extreme backlighting
Do your camera settings at home
Focus on the eyes
The best way to go wide
Taking photos of young birds
The advantage of working in slow motion
A trick for getting great colour into macro
Aiming for super-small depth of field in macro shots
A trick for reducing camera shake in weak light
Looking through ugly barriers
A tip for macro photography in awful light
Yep, this shot really was taken in moonlight
A handy trick for taking pics of flying birds
The difference the quality of the light makes
Taking advantage of very bright light
How much editing is enough?
The secret to getting great colour
Another way of taking pictures of flowers
The best time to fix mistakes
A tip for making panoramas
Sometimes, blurry is good.
Working with big macro subjects
Using a telephoto lens to shoot macro
High ISO – not just for weak light
Using a grid to salvage a bunch of tiny images