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Kimberley Coole’s five golden rules

1.Patience

Spectacular shots don’t often happen by chance and most are the result of patience. Whether it is waiting for the light to change, sunset to become more colourful, clouds to disappear or simply a smile on someone’s face; being patient often ensures you get the best possible shot for the location. A coffee often helps with this!

2.Perseverence

Sometimes the shot you are after just isn’t meant to be, either the rain won’t stop and your brief called for blue skies, that breathtaking monument is now covered in scaffolding or the tribe you hoped to see at a remote market just isn’t there. One failure doesn’t mean the shot won’t happen again another time however, so accepting defeat and then trying again another time is essential.

3. Challenge yourself

I always find that if I think that there must be a better angle I can usually find one. Never just be satisfied with the first shot you take (unless you really nailed it!), always look around and think can I do better? For those of you in stock I always try and hit a “keeper” number for each shoot day, although impossible most of the time, knowing I had wanted more keeps me out longer and often makes me work even harder!

4. Travel light 

This is based on travel photography; this won’t apply for some other areas. A good photographer needs the bare minimum of gear, so keeping it light not only saves your back but means you tend to work better on location. It also helps you move around quicker in between shots as you don’t have a tonne of gear to re-pack after you realise the lens you thought you needed is buried somewhere in the worlds heaviest bag and everything else had to be taken out!

5. Smile 

Relax; after all – you have an amazing job! We are as a group very suspicious of each other and tend to keep ourselves to ourselves; however a simple smile to another photographer can sometimes end in friendship, new location ideas or temporary gear swap! Great if you spy they have a filter you haven’t tried out yet!

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