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Domestic UK news headlines of 2022 are pummelling us with the cost of living crisis, rocketing energy costs and widespread economic strife. It can be difficult not to be fearful, as a self-employed person running a small business, and as a husband and dad and mortgage-payer. These are tricky times to navigate through. So it’s […]
Business headshot photography is endlessly fascinating. It might not feel like it at the time of shooting, from either side of the lens. But if you go deeper, the choices we make about how we represent ourselves to an online public can be wonderfully telling. I confess I am addicted to LinkedIn profile pictures. It’s true, […]
So you need to commission photography but what does a photographer need from you? Most photographers appreciate several key pieces of information from you as a commissioning client or individual customer. This information is usually contained in a photography ‘brief’. This is an outline of requirements which can be formal, tightly scheduled and detailed, or it can be fairly […]
Following a recent post about over-valuing social media responses, this post looks at other reasons why you might choose not to care what other people think of your photographs. It explores ways of creating a necessary distance and becoming a more confident photographer. Caring what others think about your photography can be difficult. You can […]
Everyone struggles to fathom time. “How is it still January? Why is it not Friday yet? It’s midday already?! Remember when he was a little baby? Where did those ten years go?” It happens gradually, sneaks up slowly. Its passing can appear confusingly sudden and totally remarkable. You need a moment of still reflection to […]
Hairdressers in Cardiff are not my area of expertise. I have never been one for funky haircuts and hipster styles. I have never intentionally buttoned a shirt right to the top without a tie. I don’t have many checked shirts or any skinny jeans. I have no tattoos and my facial hair is weak. As […]
Professional event photography is an increasingly powerful tool in the business world. Whatever the size or sector of an organisation, images can help to unite a workforce, reflecting key values, messages and objectives. They can help staff to recall memories, and bind groups of businesspeople around a shared event experience, long after the event is […]
Photographers need photographers. There’s a large and diverse ecosystem of us in Cardiff, in Wales, across the UK and the world over. Barriers to entry continue to fall with developing technology, meaning more affordable cameras capable of capturing great images, and more people trying to make money from photography. As a medium, the visual image […]
Workflows can be tough. If you have multiple disparate stages of carrying out any task, then you have a frankly excessive amount of questions to answer. What method is best? Which is quickest? Can I combine any two stages? Can I cut out any stages? How does this one affect that one? What’s the simplest and […]