Photography Explained Podcast
Photography stuff explained in plain English by me, Rick, in less than 27(ish) minutes without the irrelevant details.
I explain one photographic thing per episode, providing just enough information to help you understand it, improve your photography and take better photos, all without delving into endless, irrelevant details.
I am a professionally qualified photographer based in the UK and amongst other things I help photographers take better photos.
If you want me to answer your question, head to rickmcevoyphotography.com/podcast.
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Episodes
221 episodes
Your First Five Steps into Landscape Photography (Even in Your Local Park!)
🏞️ Photography Explained Podcast - Episode 213: Your First Five Steps into Landscape Photography (Even in Your Local Park!) 📸What if you could take stunning landscape photos without traveling to exotic locations? In this episode, your ho...
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Episode 213
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26:00
Creative Use of Depth of Field: Blurry Backgrounds, Sharp Subjects 🎯
Ever wondered how some photos make the subject leap out with a dreamy, soft background, while others keep every detail crystal-clear from front to back? That, my dear listener, is the magic of Depth of Field (DoF)! ✨ In this epi...
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Episode 212
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21:33
Master Your Camera Modes: A Simple Guide to Auto, Aperture, Shutter & Manual Settings
Are you tired of your camera making all the decisions? 😫 Want to take control and unlock its full creative potential? This episode is your straightforward guide to understanding camera modes and transforming your photography from ...
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Episode 211
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24:39
How to Get Sharp Photos Every Time: Beyond Just Focusing! 📸✨
Is your camera secretly plotting to make your photos blurry? 😈 You know the feeling: that perfectly composed shot, only to find it looks like it was taken by a ghost. A soft-focus nightmare! 🤦♂️ Well, my dear list...
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Episode 210
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35:06
Taking Great Photos in Direct Sunlight: 5 Tips for Beating the Harsh Light
🌞 Is Harsh Sunlight Ruining Your Photos? Not Anymore! 🌞Ever look at your beautiful outdoor scene and see only blown highlights, dark shadows, and squinting faces? You're not alone! Direct sunlight can be a photog...
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Episode 209
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30:06
Polarising Filters - What Are They? Do I Need One?
Polarising filters attach to camera lenses and reduce reflections and glare, and can improve colour saturation. They can simply make your photos look better. What is not to love, eh? And they don’t cost a lot either.And I have a couple o...
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Episode 208
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28:05
Neutral Density Filters - What Are They? Do I Need One?
Neutral density filters attach to camera lenses and reduce the amount of light getting through to your camera sensor without affecting the colours (hopefully). Neutral density filters allow you to take long exposures in daylight, allowing you t...
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Episode 207
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23:29
21 Composition Tips For Better Photos Of Buildings
Do you want to take better-composed, more interesting photos of buildings? So do I. And in this episode, I will give 12 things that will help you take better photos of buildings. And here they are.Take one photo and get the best ...
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Episode 206
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25:41
11 Landscape Photography Composition Tips That Will Instantly Improve Your Shots
Do you want to take more interesting landscape photos? Well, I do, and I hope that you do too. It is too easy to go somewhere and take average, boring photos of something you never do anything with. I have taken loads of these myself, so don’t ...
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Episode 205
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26:04
11 Travel Photography Composition Tips That Will Instantly Improve Your Shots
Do you want to take more interesting travel photos? Well, I do, and I hope that you do too. It is too easy to go somewhere and take average, boring photos of something you never do anything with. I have taken loads of these myself, so do...
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Episode 204
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25:54
Understanding Focal Length and Its Effect On Composition
The focal length you use to take a photo will significantly affect the photo you create. It will determine what is in a photo, what is not in a photo, how small or large the elements of the photo are, and how the elements in your photo relat...
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Episode 203
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18:50
What Are The Rules Of Composition? (And Which Do I Use?)
The rules of composition are not rules. The rules of composition are guidelines, ideas, things that we can use to help us. But you need to know what the rules of composition are so you know which rules you are going to use, if any. You don’t ha...
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Episode 202
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19:04
What Makes a Good Composition in Photography?
Photography is about more than just taking a photo—it’s about taking the best photo you can every time. A rubbish composition will give you a rubbish photo. A great composition will give you a great photo.Create better compositions, and ...
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Episode 201
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18:28
Photography Composition Tips and Techniques – How I Take Photos
The single most important thing we can do to improve our photos is to think about what we are taking photos of before we take them. We need to take the time to get the best composition every time we take a photo. The success or otherwise of any...
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Episode 200
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33:03
Top Tips To Help You Manage Your Digital Photo Catalogue
Photography Explained Podcast Episode 199 - Top Tips To Help You Manage Your Digital Photo CatalogueYou need to organise your photos on your computer so you can find any photo quickly and easily. Once you have done that, you have the sma...
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Episode 199
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31:48
How To Organise Digital Photos On Your Computer
You need to organise your photos on your computer so you can find any photo quickly and easily. You need to come up with a filing system that you can add to over the years as you take more and more photos. And you need to be able to keep track ...
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Episode 198
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24:13
How To Take Fewer Photos But Better Photos In 2025 (With My One Photo Rule)
I want to get straight into taking better photos, beginning with taking fewer photos. We can all take fewer photos and, in the process, take better photos, and in this episode, I am going to tell you how. And yes, I will revisit my one photo ru...
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Episode 197
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22:52
Photography Explained Podcast - 2024 Highlights
I want to finish 2024 with a light-hearted look back at my favourite things from 2024. Why not, eh? So join me as I pick up on some stuff from the past year, which has been an excellent year for me and my podcast. so thank you for being with me...
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Episode 196
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28:48
Why Do I Have So Many Rubbish Photos? (And Why It’s OK, And What I'm Doing About It)
I have loads of rubbish photos cluttering up my computer, clogging up my hard drives, and preventing me from finding the good stuff that must be in there somewhere, surely?We all take rubbish photos every now and then, so it’s okay—not e...
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Episode 195
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19:44
What Is The Difference Between RAW And JPEG Photos?
RAW and JPEG are file formats. Photographers use both. JPEG images have an amount of processing and compressing done to them when a photo is taken. RAW photos have no processing done to them other than creating the file, that is.JPEG pho...
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Episode 194
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23:40
How Do You Take Care Of A Camera Sensor?
Digital camera sensors are important, sensitive, expensive bits of kit that need looking after. There are things that we can do to protect them from bad stuff, but if bad stuff gets to them, there are things that we can do to remove that stuff....
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Episode 193
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26:52
Why Can't You Use Flash Photography In Museums and Art Galleries?
So you are in a museum or an art gallery. Or some other similar place. It is lovely and quiet, with nice low-level lighting and local lights highlighting all those fantastic exhibits. The whole place has been carefully designed with a bespoke l...
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Episode 192
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19:51
How Do I Take Care Of My Camera Lenses?
Camera lenses are optical and engineering marvels. Camera lenses must be treated with care and respect when used, stored carefully and regularly maintained and cleaned. Take good care of your camera lenses, and they will take good care of you f...
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Episode 191
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28:53
How Lenses Can Help You To Take Better Photos
There are so many lenses out there. How can you possibly know which lens or lenses will help you? Relax – I have got this covered.Lenses on cameras give photographers options. To understand how lenses can help you take better photos, you...
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Episode 190
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37:27
Camera Lenses Explained - My Beginner's Guide
A listener asked me to do an episode strictly on lenses, so here it is. If you want me to explain something, just hit the “Send us a text” link on the podcast feed, and you can have your own almost personalised episode of the podcast. How utter...
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Episode 189
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32:42