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4 Tips To Improve Your Photography

Ruth Gilmour

Last updated: September 15, 2026

When you’re starting out in photography, it can be easy to become discouraged if your images don’t come out looking as you’d envisioned them in your mind’s eye. Over exposed, under exposed, camera shake, bad composition – there’s so much to remember and it can be quite overwhelming to try and get everything right. Here are 4 tips to help you improve your photography:

Do a photography course

One of the best ways to get some genuine professional advice is to do a course. A photography course allows you access to one of the world’s most legendary photographers so you can learn tips, tricks and techniques from a professional.

Learn how to use light

Here’s the thing: the light doesn’t always have to be ‘perfect’, but it does have to be interesting. Some of the most arresting images are captured in lighting that an amateur overlooks because it’s too dark, too light or simply too hard to make use of – or so they think! Try to utilise the most interesting and creatively effective lighting, which includes early morning, evening, low, moody, directional, shadowed and the list goes on.

Focus, Focus, Focus

This is possibly the single most common mistake amateurs make, and one that’s very easily rectified. Sometimes it’s camera shake (you might be trying to use too slow a shutter speed), sometimes it’s motion blur (not fast enough shutter speed) and sometimes it’s that you simply haven’t focused your lens properly. Learn to get into the habit of checking off focus, shutter speed and aperture before you start shooting and you’ll reduce the disappointment of producing poor, out of focus images.

Consider composition and perspective

Some of the greatest images have been by fluke or even mistake, but many more of them come about because the person behind the camera has captured something truly unique – whether it’s the subject itself, the angle, the lighting or the composition. Be on the constant lookout for a different perspective, an unusual subject or an unfamiliar composition, because it’s when you learn to see the world with different eyes that magic will happen.