8 lessons learnt in 8 years of photographing
It’s one thing feeling as though you can take a good picture and are ready to start being paid for your photography and a whole other element being professional enough to run your own photography business.
We thought it may be helpful to those of you who are at the start (or even middle) or your photography journey to be able to hear from our experience, the kind of things you may come across and hopefully give you some tips for how to handle potentially tricky situations .
I can’t say we’ve always got it right, and we’ve certainly had to learn along the way BUT.. I do feel it allows us to at least share with you, what you can possibly come across and how you can lessen the worry.
Sometimes managing people’s expectations and also making sure you look at things from all angles can be life savers. Here’s our 8 best lessons learnt over those 8 years.
Claudia & Jesse | Family is what you have
When everywhere you look, it’s all about the perfect family and yours is changing and evolving.
How to Photograph Children
We wanted to write a blog about how we photograph the little ones, but before we start, I do want to say these are just the things that we’ve learnt along the way. We love what we do and love being around families, so these are some of the things that we’ve noticed as we go. These work if you are being paid to photograph children / families, or if you own some children and it’s a quick guide to some of the things we’ve do at most of our family shoots.
Your story matters too.
Why listening to yourself and giving yourself enough time and space, is one of the best ways to bring your creativity back into a flow.
Favourite lens for family photography
Which lenses work best for family photography - Here we go through our experiences working with different lenses and talk about which are our favourites and why.
Family travel to Scotland
Last summer we headed up to Tynabruaich in Scotland and these are some of the images from that trip. It’s something we want to do more as a family in 2019, if it’s climbing a mountain one weekend going on a plane and exploring new countries or just being out close to home on the moors. If you could recommend anywhere in the UK or further a field then please let us know.
Chloe | family shoot | Why family shoots matter
Family is everything. When you have the chance to stop and really see it. Really see you. Having photographs taken at any point are always going to mark parts of your life that will at some point seem like such a distant memory. That’s why we wholeheartedly love to take these pictures for you. They matter, you matter.
Richard, Hannah & Leo
A new obsession, ever little movement, noise and stare it’s just another excuse to hold your breath and think the world is alright for a moment.
Black and White Edit {lightroom}
A guide to how we currently edit our black white images using adobe lightroom.