Shoot in high resolution or RAW

If you plan on printing your photographs, you'll want to shoot in a high-resolution format. With digital SLRs like the D70 and 350D, you should configure your camera to save shots as high resolution JPEGs or in RAW format. Although these take up more space on a memory card, they are the only way you'll get close to matching the output of an analogue 35mm SLR. The 1GB memory card we took to Glastonbury was more than enough to last the weekend. We took our photos as a mix of JPEG and RAW files. One hundred photographs later, there was still plenty of room on the memory card. If you're especially trigger-happy, you can always take extra Compact Flash cards with you.

We took this photo of an abandoned Converse All Star trainer in RAW format, which meant that we could blow it up to A3 size with only a small amount of image degradation. There were a lot of abandoned shoes in Glastonbury. People discarded their summer footwear and the site became a graveyard of trainers, most slumped sadly in the mud, their owners presumably in the queue for the 20,000 wellies that were sold over the weekend.

To take this shot we took the extreme step of lying down in the mud next to the dishevelled trainer and framing it to take up most of the shot. This meant that when we came to print the photograph there was a lot of detail to the image. You could almost smell the mud on the printed photo.