Photographing India, Part 3: Street Photography
One of the things many visitors to India hate most is the hectic, bustling and sometimes overwhelming experience of India's big cities. And it's fair to say there are a lot of these! Like traveling to most destinations, when you travel in India you come to realise...
Photographing India, Part 2: Where To Go and What to Shoot
Welcome to part two of my 'Photographing India' series, in which we'll look at the geography of India, and explore which destinations are suited to particular types of photography. Part one can be found here. Introduction India is big. It's the seventh-largest country...
Which Web Host and Domain Name Registrar Should I Use?
One of the first stages of creating a website for your photography business is selecting a web host and buying your domain name. But the plethora of domain name registrars and web hosts is overwhelming. Where to even begin? How to choose between them all? What...
Five Tips for Shooting Your First Wedding
Let's not beat about the bush. Shooting your first wedding can be anxiety-inducing! Hopefully you've gained some experience as a second-shooter, so you've seen first-hand some of the challenges of wedding photography. Or maybe not! I'd never a shot a wedding in any...
The Best Landscape Photography Trick You’ve Never Heard Of
The bane of every landscape photographers' life must surely be that rude awakening at some ungodly hour by an alarm clock. The passion for creating memorable images of the natural world motivates us to endure the discomfort, but we wish there was another way. It's not...
Three Easy Ways to Make Better Portraits
A well taken portrait can be truly captivating. Here I present you with three tips that I've found have really helped me create better portraits. I hope they help you too! 1) The eyes have it Focus on the eyes. Make sure they are really sharp. Try to get catchlights...
Shooting Melasti Festival in Bali
Next week on the island of Bali sees the arrival of a particularly auspicious time, with this years' Melasti festival, followed closely by the silent day of Nyepi. It's a truly fantastic time to be on the island, and it's well worth planning a trip to Bali that...
How to Export Images for Your Photography Website
Anyone who has a photography website has probably come across this little conundrum before. What is the best size to export your images before you upload them to your website gallery? This article shares my simple approach to this issue. The key criteria There are two...
Photographing India, Part 1: Introduction
More than anywhere, India is the place I keep going back to. I could write a list as long as my arm of reasons not to go, but there is something about it that I just love. My Indian affair began about 15 years ago. I was travelling around the world with my girlfriend...