Try These Fun Projects & Get Your Photos on Walls! I’m a creative soul, a maker and a lover of little projects. Which is lucky because coming up with outside the box photo display ideas is a big motivator for me to actually print my photos and get them on the wall! I know you […]

This month we interview the fabulous Rana Rankin, a photographer based on the Gold Coast & Northern NSW in Australia.  Rana specialises in newborn, family and birth photography, which seems a natural step for an uber talented photographer who also happens to be a qualified midwife with oodles of experience in birthing rooms. Rana’s galleries feature incredibly beautiful and […]

Many of us first become interested in photography because we want to record all those gorgeous memories of our family life at home.  Plus we are usually at home!  But it can be easy to get stuck in a rut composing our photos against a plain wall when indoors. I can help you with some […]

Back Button Focus… What Is It? When we use auto focus, by default our cameras require us to half depress the shutter button in order to lock focus. Back button focussing is when we use a button on the back of the camera (hence the name!) instead of the shutter button to lock focus, and […]

Tell Stories with your Travel Photography Ok so I’ll reluctantly admit the holidays are sneaking up on us! So I thought it would be perfect timing to put together some travel photography tips so you can take fabulous photos on your holidays and travels. Documenting our travel adventures through images is not just a way […]

Black And White Edits: Tips & Tutorials We all love deliciously rich and textured black & white images. When done right, black and white edits are dramatic, timeless, suit virtually any genre of photography, and can make our subject really pop from the background! But something I see a lot are black & white images […]

Everyone wants to know how to make eyes sparkle when processing photos. The thing is, capturing real sparkle in camera is such an easy thing to achieve there’s no reason why we should be doing it as part of our post processing! It’s all about the light! Soft Light at 45 Degrees When photographing a […]

Now who hasn’t been in this situation before… you spot a photo worthy moment, you run for the camera, frame the shot… and the camera keeps attempting to focus on something other than your chosen subject. It’s so frustrating! But you can control it, and it’s a total game changer! This simple technique is one […]

I was recently on holiday with my family – it was a total treat, and I’m super grateful that we were able to spend this time together visiting friends and exploring new parts of the world! Plus as a photographer what more could I ask for… beautiful scenery and action packed days of adventure and travel! A Confession Yet […]

White balance sounds confusing… and I know it’s a subject that you’ll sometimes avoid when you’re first starting out. But I promise it’s not a complicated topic, so let’s have a look! White balance is the colour temperature of an image, and it ranges from warm (orange hues) to cool (blue hues). When we edit or adjust […]