10 Tips to Get the Most out of Your “Big” Camera (DSLR or Mirrorless)
A couple of weeks ago, I asked my audience on Instagram what they would most like help with, and someone asked for “help to get the most out of my proper camera”. As it happens, I had a lot of ...
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[Guest Post] Choosing Family Photos For Print
A lot of parents struggle with the overwhelming task of choosing which photos to print for a photobook or for their walls. Whether they are looking at all of the personal photos sitting on their phone, or whether they hired ...
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Tired of Taking Blurry Photographs of Your Children?
Your children aren’t really cooperating when you ask them to sit down and smile at the camera, are they? I’ll tell you a secret… None of them are! Taking a (sharp) portrait of children looking and smiling at the camera ...
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Photos You Need To Take of Grandma + Grandpa This Year
My grandfather passed away in November 2016. The last time I got to see him in person (rather than Skype) was in June 2015, during our first trip to France with our 3-months-old daughter. Here is one of the very ...
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Being in the Moment VS Taking the Photograph
I wanted to talk about something I am personally working on right now, at home, when photographing my own family. Documenting everything = digital clutter overload It is so easy, especially when photographing “everyday life” to fall into the trap ...
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Mums, 8 Ways to Get in the Picture with and for your Children
I’ve talked numerous times about the importance of being in photographs. For us (to travel back in time and FEEL what it was like) and for them (so that one day, when they look for photographs of us, they find ...
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Let’s free ourselves from this idea of “perfection”
There is so much I want to tell you when it comes to photographing your family with intent, that I end up not saying anything! I find it difficult to translate my thoughts into (few) words until I lie in ...
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[Photographing with intent] The Importance of Being in the Moment
You will agree with me that today’s world is a little bit crazy. We are bombarded with information all the time, and our overall concentration is suffering from it. It’s often that I will catch myself picking my phone while ...
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[Photographing with Intent] The Things I Take for Granted
So a few weeks ago, I did a Facebook Live Video to brush on a subject that I am unveiling little by little in my journey towards documenting my family, our everyday lives and the people around us. I talked ...
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The Best Time to Schedule a Newborn Photography Session
Expecting parents ask me when is the best time to do a newborn photo session. My answer to that question might be very different from photographers who do posed newborn photos. For my style of photography, there isn’t actually a ...
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10 Family Activities to Document this Weekend
Weekends are the best, aren’t they? If you don’t get to spend that much time as a family during the week, they give you that little bit of time to relax together. On the other hand, maybe you can manage ...
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How to Choose the Right Newborn Photographer for You
If you are reading this, you might be pregnant or you just had a baby (congratulations!) and you would like to hire a professional photographer to capture this beautiful little creature and help you freeze a moment in time. You ...
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[Photographing with Intent] What to photograph?
So a few weeks back, we’ve discussed why we take photographs and the feedback I received showed me how many parents struggle to photograph what really matters and get those photographs printed. Here is the next step of your journey towards ...
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[Photographing with Intent] Why are we taking photographs?
With phones and digital cameras, taking photographs today is very easy and most people do take photographs nearly every single day. Not every photograph is worth making it to our walls though, and that’s perfectly fine. There are a lot ...
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Mums, 8 reasons why you should exist in photographs
It doesn’t matter how beautiful they are: most women are self-conscious of being photographed. This is particularly true for new mums (and not so new mums) and seeing what we go through during pregnancy, it is easy to understand why. No need ...
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Embracing the newborn chaos
Did I tell you that my mother is a midwife (in France)? When I was pregnant with her first grandchild, she went into arranging 4 weeks holidays around my due date so she could be in Dublin for the birth. ...
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Preserve your memories: print your photographs
My father always took a lot of photographs so I am the very lucky owner of slip in albums documenting my first years. They are one of my most precious belonging. When I was 10 and asking myself questions such ...
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