Setting the Scene: Creating Star Trails with Live Composite
How to Take Star Trails The magic that exists once you learn how to capture astrophotography and star trails is immeasurable. Astrophotography is about capturing long exposures that bring out the available light and...
Behind the Lens: Turning Trash into Photography Equipment
So trash might not always be the word to use here but for the following story it is. In photography, part of the fun is attempting to create new angles, seek unique perspectives or...
Setting the Scene: Making Water Dance
Long Exposure Photography – How to Take Long Exposures of Moving Water + Create Beautiful Blur Long exposure photography relates to creating soft flowing water and making it blur, dance and glide through your...
Snow Photography: How To Take Photos in Snow
Photographing in the Snow Your Quick Guide to Taking Snow Photos Photographing in the snow should be pretty easy because typically you’re just working with one colour tone, white. Right? While white landscapes might...
Sunrise Photography – Setting the Scene
How to Photograph Sunrise – Sunrise Photography Tips Photographing the warm glow of a sunrise is perhaps the most relaxing scene to capture…or is that because I’m usually still half asleep at the time?...
The Secret Setting: Aperture Priority Mode
Aperture Priority – It’s Okay to NOT use Manual Mode! When you are learning photography two words sound about as daunting as jumping out of a plane. Manual Mode. A lot of professional photographers...
How to Become a Professional Travel Photographer
Travel Photography: A Guide to Getting Started as a Travel Photographer The title of ‘Travel Photographer’ is the pinnacle for many creatives with that ever enduring sense of wanderlust. You would think all you...
How my Career + Gear Evolved as a Travel Photographer
Written in 2016 (but still relevant!) – please see the end of post for an updated link to the gear I currently use! Remember when photography meant taking 24 photos per roll of film?...
PHOTO TIPS: Getting Creative with Shutter Speed
Learning to adjust your cameras shutter speed is one of the first steps to controlling how a photo is created. Knowing how fast or slow you want the shutter to be will help the...
How To Photograph The Northern Lights
Learn how to Photograph the Northern Lights Photo Tips for Photographing Aurora + Astro When the green waves of the Northern Lights dance in the sky or the stars twinkle on a clear night, you’ll want...