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 […]

There’s lots of reasons why we might want a self portrait… for work, to update our profile shot on our socials, for online dating, and even just for ourselves! Whatever the reason, when we’re putting ourselves out there, we all want to look our best, amiright? But most people tend to be overly critical, and […]

8 Fun & Easy DIY Photo Backdrop Ideas Sometimes you just can’t find that perfect combination of good light and an uncluttered background to shoot portraits indoors. When this happens, a photography backdrop is the answer. And, regardless of what you may think, it doesn’t have to be expensive! In fact, creating a DIY photo […]

Earth Day began in the US in 1970 as a way of raising mass awareness of the issues facing our planet as a result of decades of pollution, deforestation, and other environmental destruction. Initially a day of protest, over the years, the focus of Earth Day has shifted towards education and each year, schools around […]

If you’ve ever wondered what you need to learn in order to be a good photographer, it’s just these three things: The ability to shoot in manual mode; An understanding of good light; and Knowledge of the compositional tools you can use to create visually strong and well balanced images. The Enthusiast Photography Course eliminates […]

It’s graduation time in our June Enthusiast Photography Course, so this week’s highlights reel is a gorgeous collection of images from some of our graduating students! It’s hard to believe but each set of images were taken just 8 weeks apart which is a really powerful visual of what can be achieved in such a […]

12 Stunning Photos Depicting Solitude This week’s highlights reel of images from our fabulous Grads are a handful of our faves from the most recent challenge, the theme of which was “solitude”. I love how our Grads used their focal length, composition or framing (or a combination of all of those skills) to convey a […]

This week’s highlights reel is a gorgeous collection of images from our students in our May Enthusiast Photography Course which just graduated, and our June group who are just over the halfway mark! If you’ve ever struggled to figure out manual mode, and you’re sick of taking hundreds of shots just to fluke a couple […]

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 […]

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 […]