HITTING THE TOWN

Canon pro Jeremy Flint teaches our reader David how to shoot the best architectural hotspots in Cambridge

- Jeremy Flint

THE PRO: JEREMY FLINT

CAMERA: CANON 5D MARK IV

Jeremy is a pro who specialises in travel, landscape and location photography. He won the National Geographic Traveller Grand Prize in 2016, and the Association of Photographers Discovery Award in 2017. We met him in Cambridge, UK, an architecture photographer’s dream, where he took keen photographer David under his wing. You can see David’s work at

http://bit.ly/2Jw4Qpt

APPRENTICE: DAVID TODHUNTER

CAMERA: CANON EOS 5DS

David, from West Sussex, loves photographing buildings, and wants some tips and tricks for capturing great-looking architecture shots with his wide-angle lenses. David previously brought a tilt-shift lens, but sold it as he didn’t use it very much, and he’d particularly like advice on how to keep the straight lines of buildings straight without the help of a specialist lens.

TECHNIQUE ASSESSMENT

Jeremy offered David some pointers for capturing perfect architecture shots

APERTURE PRIORITY MODE

To start, Jeremy set David’s camera to Aperture Priority mode (Av on the mode dial), so that he could have full control over the aperture setting. For most of the cityscapes they’d be using a mid-range aperture of between f/11 and f/16 to get a large depth of field for maximum front-to-back sharpness – the camera then takes care of the shutter speed to capture a correctly exposed image.