"Straight from the Hip Photography Tips"

Photography is a LOT of fun. We can help you get real, and competent, with your photography. Start browsing!

Welcome to My Photography Tips!

If you’re looking for some straight photography tips without the intimidating jargon and technical rants you certainly have come to the right place!

We offer a wide range of photography tips in all sorts and flavors. Take a glance to the left and you will see a navigation menu...yikes! Look at that thing! It’s all true!

Just click on one of those titles and you will be whisked away into a world of useful photography tips that we have gathered over the years...and years, of taking photos.

So – pick a genre and start browsing!

Here's our first photography tip: Life is buzzing away all around you, usually very photogenically too - so get out there and record it in lots of great pictures people may drool over (or not). But, hey, at least you're not spending your waking hours just staring at a screen.

On this site we'll give Still Life Tips, Outdoor Tips, Black and White Tips, Tips on Digital Photography, Night Photography Tips for the insomniac, and even Wedding Photography Tips for the insanely brave and unwary.

We’ll also give photography tips on Photo Composition, a Potted History of Photography, tips on Photography And The Meaning Of Life and even tackle the vexing question of What is Art?

These photography tips are the hard-earned fruit of over four decades of shooting pictures across a wide range of photographic genres. We don’t pretend to be excellent, award-winning photographers (we never tried) but our tips can help you avoid the pitfalls and confusions that lurk out there and entertain you at the same time.

Because we love you, our dear website browsing compatriot, we care about you and want you to be happy and free... Seriously, because it's fun. Because we know stuff. Because we have some time on our hands and like showing off.

Why is this site different from the other Photography Tips sites?

Because we don’t take ourselves too seriously and we ENJOY taking great pictures - as opposed to being fixated on the technology and the meaning of it all. Also, we’re not a front for a commercial activity. If we think some product is useful we’ll say so and why, otherwise it’s over to you to figure out how to spend your hard-earned bucks.

Why are we doing this?

We know almost no one ever bothers to do this but hey, we're giving these tips for free you know, so why not do your bit by telling us if they're useful, or not.

We would love to hear of any successes you've had using them, or at least if you found them entertaining.

Plus you can ask a question and we'll really answer it...really!

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Further Study

Although we try to ad more photography tips and techniques to this site regularly there really is no substitute for studying some solid basics. We don't mean some dry old four year theoretical advanced degree!

For an excellent study of the basics in application check out our review of Dan Feildman's
Your Guide to Digital Photography.