When you look back at images of your childhood, what is it that you love most about them? For those of us born before the digital era, our baby albums are likely filled with faded prints, some out-of-focus, some underexposed, negatives long since lost to the sands of time.   But it’s not what they […]

How To Take Stunning Snow Portraits When the snow starts falling, that all-white winter wonderland is an exciting opportunity for snow pictures! Think sparkling eyes, apple cheeks pink with cold, beautiful texture in the form of warm woollies. Add pops of vibrant colour, and it’s easy to create really eye-catching, dynamic snow images with a […]

Professional Looking 4th of July Pics – Without The Overwhelm! Your 4th of July pictures don’t need to be expensive or involve sourcing a dozen expensive or hard-to-find props. We LOVE the styled setups that we see in the CLG community…but not that many people have the time, money, or mad styling skills to pull […]

Are you thinking about launching your own photography business but not quite sure where to start? (And perhaps not feeling confident enough as yet?) Or perhaps you’re a photographer already running your own business, but you’re feeling overwhelmed and burnt out and you don’t know how to turn things around? You’ve seen plenty of people […]

What Is Golden Hour Light Photographers are, by nature, light lovers at heart. For this reason, the golden hour is a much loved time of day. It’s warm, beautiful, consistent, and you can take dreamy portraits with it. Shooting during the golden hour is particularly perfect for beach photography, with open expanses of sea and […]

The latest round of our Advanced Course just wrapped up last week, and I’m excited to share with you this gorgeous highlights reel of some of the absolutely STUNNING images that were shared during the course! Together, they created and submitted more than 2000 images! I’m so proud of how far they’ve come in their […]

Towards the end of 2020, Photoshop added a handy new tool to their extensive library – the Sky Replacement tool. So what exactly is it useful for? Well, there are a few situations in which you might want to replace the sky in an image. The first is when you’ve blown the sky in your […]

Today’s highlights reel brings you a blast from the past! This sparkling collection of images has come from last year’s Exploring the Creative Workshop, plus Grad group challenges. Our talented Grads created light bokeh in various ways to take artistic abstracts, and bring sparkle to their holiday photos! And that’s the focus of our brand […]

This is a guest post from the fabulous Gray Tham, an award winning accredited children’s photographer (and mama to three!). Gray is the talent behind Simply Gray Photography .Throughout her professional photographer career, she has photographed hundreds of children and families in Melbourne, Australia and throughout the United States from her sometimes-home base of New […]