Have you registered for the March Photography Dash yet? The March Photography Dash follows on from my wildly popular February Photography Dash. In the February Dash, over 700 participants together photographed and shared over 6,000 spectacular images during the month. At the same time as learning heaps about their camera. By taking part, you will […]

The day of the family photo shoot arrives. The lighting is perfect, your camera settings are spot on, and the composition is perfect. You direct everyone to look at the camera and “say cheese”. You rush home to find an SD card full of stiff looking people with lots of teeth and all the personality […]

We have all seen them images like the ones in a National Geographic spread of oversized fly eye balls or gorgeous butterflies. The kind of photos that make you stop and marvel. Are you interested in taking close-up photographs? Do you like nature and want to learn how to photograph it? Small animals are […] […]

Most of the time, when you’re shooting portraits, you want your subject to be happy with the final photo. Not all the time, because honestly we all get a little bit of evil delight from catching a misbehaving toddler in full-tantrum mode, don’t we? But other than that and maybe a few other circumstances, it’s […]

Getting consistently sharp photos can sometimes be a challenge, and it might be the most important challenge that beginning photographers have to overcome. Although things like contrast, color saturation and white balance can be tweaked in post-processing with a little know how, a blurry photo is a blurry photo. You can make it look a […]