24 hours, 12 shots…

Benjamin Graham shows us how to make the most out of what lies around you by taking a dozen very different photographs over the course of a day, all in a single location!

Multiple shots, one day and one location – take the N-photo challenge, with LPOTY winner Benjamin Graham

Whenever I am teaching photography, or presenting to a group or club, there are some famous quotes I frequently reference – here are two of them: “The photographs are already there, you just have to find them…” as spoken by Robert Capa, and, “You don’t take a photograph, you make it…” courtesy of Ansel Adams.

Adams’ and Capa’s words are as true today as they were when they originally said them, over 60 years ago. Capa meant that there was so much more to it than just showing up at any time and indiscriminately recording the view in front of the camera. Adams meant that the action of releasing the shutter was merely a tiny moment in the midst of an extended process; starting with set-up and pre-visualization – and ending with developing and producing the final photo.

If you apply those two masters’ values to every landscape you visit, I guarantee you will always come away with keepers. You don’t need to jet off to exotic locations on the other side of the planet to produce a gallery of compelling results. There is a diversity of landscape right here on our doorsteps in Blighty that is absolutely world class; spending your time in one location, even only for a day, will yield a successful and varied portfolio if you apply yourself 100 per cent to the task at hand.

However, that application does mean you will have to accept you’ll need to get up well before dawn and stay out a little bit after the sun goes down…