Category Archives: Photography

Children & Baby Photography Tips – Part 1

Whether you’re a professional photographer, an enthusiast or a parent with a ‘point and shoot’, photographing your own children as they grow can be deeply rewarding. However, kids are always a challenge to photograph. They move extremely fast which as a photographer can get incredibly frustrating, not to mention leaving you with lots of unusable...

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Newborn Photography, capturing the details

I was very pleased this year when my wife Sara bought me a Canon 50mm f/2.5 EF Macro Lens for my birthday. I’d been thinking of buying a macro lens for a while so I could get extremely close detail shots of newborns and babies but hadn’t really done that much research. Imagine my surprise...

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Simple Black & White Portraits

There’s nothing I like better than a simple black & white portrait. Here’s a couple I really liked from a recent portrait shoot. These were both shot in the open shade against a white wall. Both subjects are holding a silver reflector, positioned below and just out of the frame. I use this simple technique...

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