We mamas don’t get in photos with our kids often enough. It’s true we’re usually on the other side of the camera, but we often have a variety of other excuses as well… I haven’t done my hair, I don’t  have any make up on, I don’t have time, I’m wearing an ugly t-shirt, I […]

7 Ways to Capture Your Kids Outdoors This Summer As our friends in the northern hemisphere slide into summer, we went for a wander in our CLG community looking for fun ways to capture kids in summer. Welcome to this weeks highlights reel of images from our talented Grads, we hope it inspires you to […]

What started out as a bit of portrait practice, morphed into a fabulously fun photo project to document each day in lockdown… with a two year old! Becca Lord-Lyon is a CLG Grad, and when she began sharing her daily portraits of her daughter in our Grad’s group, they were so full of personality and […]

If you took a stroll through our Grad’s group these past few weeks, you’d come to the conclusion that being isolated breeds creativity! This week we curated a gorgeous collection of portraits with a creative twist, shot in ways that you can try without having to leave home… and it’s fair to say, they’re also […]

Create Dramatic Natural Light Portraits Using Single Window Light It’s a common misconception that when you want to start taking more dramatic portraits, you need to invest in and learn how to use studio lights or off camera flash. Whilst they do obviously have their place, we will show you how to level up your […]

Documentary Photography – Capture Childhood Authentically The struggle is real… when we’re learning photography and trying to capture our kids while refining our skills,  we can end up with very un-interested kids… ‘does mum have the camera out again?’ But there is a way around it… and today’s post will show you how! I love […]

  Wide angle lenses are the queens of distortion! They stretch, elongate, and generally exaggerate the size of objects through the viewfinder. The cause of the distortion is that the lens is shaped in a way that allows it to include more in the frame than the eye naturally sees…  it squeezes in extra width by […]

Hi. My name is Marnie Martil and I live in a little country town called Dalby, in Queensland Australia. When I first moved here I hated it because there are no mountains, hills or much greenery anywhere to be seen. It was dry and flat and dusty. Since moving here 4 years ago I have […]

Have you ever had an idea in your head to capture a gorgeous shot…. something you’d planned for, and visualised how it would turn out… but then it just didn’t work out? Photography is a creative endeavor, and there will be times where we simply don’t get the shot we’d hoped for!  Maybe we capture […]

When I first started out as a beginner in photography, it was a huge challenge to learn the skills I needed just to get my camera out of auto! Going out and doing a course in person somewhere wasn’t an option for me… I was a full time mother married to a self employed man […]