Blog – Page 2 – Photography for Parents

Learning to Edit your photos - with Adobe Lightroom

If you're not editing your photos, you're missing out. It's an ESSENTIAL skill for any photographer - from newbies to advanced enthusiasts - it's not just for pros!

Babies, Blog, Photography, Photos

Before and after

Nobody starts out a photographic genius. But we can get better and better. Check out the before and after images of our own students. You will be amazed how much things can change!

Blog, creative, Photography

By popular demand, following the success of our last Lightroom Live – we’re bringing it BACK baby! Join us to learn how to get the best out of your images, how to fix and enhance and get creative with your photos!

Blog, family, Photographic gear

There is a camera in my changing bag

My changing bag. It’s got nappies, wipes, a sippy cup, some snacks for the little one, oh and a camera. Don’t worry, it’s got its own little padded home within the bag so it doesn’t need to touch anything icky, but live in my changing bag it does.

Blog, creative, Photography, tutorial

10 things to do to make your snow photos look great!

"Did you SEE that Mummy! We can go an build a snowman! And play snowballs and ..." Here are out 10 top things to do if you want your snow photos to look beautiful. Illustrated by our very own students photos! Before you go anywhere…

Blog, Christmas, Creative exercise, tutorial

How to MERRILY photograph your Christmas

Blog, Photography

RANT : NO you DON’T have to be a ‘BORN ARTIST’

No, you don’t have to be a ‘born artist’ to significantly - and I mean really by a LOT - improve your photographs. This is a topic which makes me see red so get settled for a bit of a rant.

Babies, Blog, creative, family, Photography

When is the best time to photograph your baby?

What is the time of the day, when your baby is likely to be calm, relaxed, not move too much, and give you the best chance to photograph all their adorable features?

Blog, family, Photography

Photographer's Child Syndrome - is your child affected????

Does your child suffer from the Photographer’s Child Syndrom (PCS)? The symptoms include eye rolling or vocal objection at the sight of you picking up the camera or reluctantly playing along adopting less than sincere poses and the “cheese” variety smiles. Sounds familiar?

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What we do, as parents, photographers, and why it matters.

What we do as parents, photographers - matters. Documenting the little moments in our family lives, the quiet ordinary moments that make up the fabric of our lives - they matter. They are the ones that in years to come will bring the smile back on your face and floods of emotions.

Blog, Colors, Creative exercise, Photography, tutorial, Uncategorized

How to take a great autumnal portrait

A few times a year, Mother nature creates the perfect conditions to capture stunning, truly memorable images. It just suddenly gets generous with colour and light and textures and makes it almost a sin not to try and capture all this beauty.…

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Holidays by the pool? Learn how to take great underwater photos and capture the fun!

Want to capture your kids under water? Not as hard as it looks! We explore equipment options, technique and composition - ready? Splash!

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