Photography tips and advice from Lumiere Photography : how to compose your photo, rules of thirds, watching the background
Portraits in Rishikesh I usually forget to blog about my travels- I’ll try to get to it one day- but I spent January in Rishikesh, India, with Heart of Living Yoga foundation. (I’ll explain more about it and its work in another blog, but feel free to look it up in the meantime.) I didn’t …
It’s all about the heart: from photography to yoga. This is a personal blog and I feel some tingling about sharing this with you. What does photography and yoga have in common? For me the link is the heart. You see, when I started the photography business, I was unsure about many things, then I …
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How many ways are there to shoot tulips? I told you I went to Holland for a photography workshop and it happened to be a tulips time. Now I didn’t realise that was on my bucket list but I am so glad I made time to see the tulips fields. I am also very grateful …
Capturing the Connection in Couple Photoshoots Day 2 of the Amsterdam workshop was interesting because we go to hear from two other photographers who do things quite differently. Gabe Mcclintock poses the couples in a position then let them interpret it and pour their own emotions in, whereas Ed Peers only suggest places. As photographers …
Take better photos: composition Part 2 Who tried the two steps to take better photos I offered last week? Let me know how it went. I have a lot of shoots and weddings to blog about but I wanted to finish this little column. The first pointers towards better composition: 1 was declutter 2 was light- …
When a photographer says they prefer natural light it’s true of course but it’s also much easier. With natural light, I can see what I am doing, where the light comes from, what shadows it throws etc. Using flash for a lot of photographers can be a bit scary. Especially off camera flash (OCF in …
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Paris romantic city, Paris je t’aime Last Saturday I went to Paris for the day. I lived in Paris many moons ago so I wasn’t looking for anything special- apart from some saucisson- I went on a whim, because people I knew were going. I was looking forward to getting to know thembetter, which is …
A themed photoshoot is the opportunity to be really creative as a photographer and explore ideas, styles etc, so when a client comes with an idea or is open to trying something new, I jump at the chance. Walker struck me as a renaissance painting, she reminded me of my favourite painter, Botticelli, and I …
Take better photographs : composition I don’t know how you feel about New Year resolutions. I am trying a new version of resolutions: not a “must do it otherwise I failed”.. but a gentler self-encouragement. One of these is blogging more. I’d like to blog about my work but also more generally about people and …
Taking better photos: colours and lines This is the last instalment of my little advice column on how to take better photographs: better composition with colours and lines. I will do a similar back to basics column on the technical aspect of photography another time. So in the last weeks, we’ve looked at: decluttering and …
