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Pro Tip #4: My Approach

// June 30th, 2014 // No Comments » // Pro Tips #, Technique


In this post I’m going to go through the basic approach I take to preparing for the photography jobs that I’m offered. This is effectively a checklist of the steps I go through, although I’ve done them so often by now I don’t need the list to remind me.

My goal throughout is to give clients the best, most useful images possible. I don’t try to apply my style to their job, in fact I’d hope I don’t have a style, rather I try to figure out what they need, then figure out how to make the images.

By preparing thoroughly in advance and knowing exactly what I need to do going into a shoot I have more time to work with people and be creative on the day.

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Pro Tip #3: No!!! – Ten Things NOT To Do

// April 28th, 2014 // No Comments » // Opinion, Pro Tips #, Technique


Trying not to be negative but… here are some things you should probably not do. So stay positive and do the opposite of these!

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Pro Tip #1 and #2 – Taking Photos Professionally

// April 7th, 2014 // No Comments » // Opinion, Pro Tips #, Technique

This is the first in a series of blog posts discussing some tips and ideas related very specifically to taking photos professionally. This is actually a very different concept to just taking good looking photos – I hope why it’s so different will become clear as we go along.

These tips mostly won’t be camera tricks or photoshop techniques, but things which are more subtle, less often discussed and probably more important. And also pretty simple!

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