GREAT CITYSCAPES AT SUNSET

Professional travel photographer Jeremy Flint shows a keen enthusiast how to capture atmospheric golden hour and blue hour images in the beautiful and architecture-rich English city of Oxford

PRO JEREMY FLINT

CAMERA: CANON EOS 5D MK IV Jeremy is a pro photographer who specialises in travel, landscape and location photography. Jeremy won the National Geographic Traveller Grand Prize in 2016, and the Association of Photographers Discovery Award in 2017. https://bit.ly/2Jw4Qpt

APPRENTICE HARI MANGAT

CAMERA: CANON EOS 7D MARK II Hari is a retired software engineer who’s been interested in photography since his dad bought him an old box camera when he was 11 years old. He later graduated to a Canon 1000 film camera, before going digital with a Canon EOS 7D Mark II. He’s looking for tips to help him get better pictures at night and in low light.

TECHNIQUE ASSESSMENT

Jeremy set up his and Hari’s cameras in Manual mode, ready to take some amazing architectural shots in Oxford

MANUAL MODE

To start with Jeremy suggested that Hari set his Canon EOS 7D Mark II to Manual mode (M on the mode dial), as this would let him take full control of his camera settings and exposure parameter. It also means his camera settings will be locked of,f and won’t change even if the lighting does. Jeremy recommends regularly checking your shots on the back of the camera screen to make sure that your exposures are looking good, and reshooting an image if you’re not totally happy with it.

STARTING SETTINGS