Working out how much you should charge is one of the questions most frequently asked when setting up as a professional photographer.
I’ll endeavour to answer the question but it may not be the answer you expect. I have a view that breaks with industry tradition.
Traditionally photographers charge for a shoot by applying half day or [...]

Interesting art is new and different from everything that has gone before. It’s impossible to break new ground and produce something fresh if you follow the rules and imitate other people’s styles and techniques.
We all learn from the past, our mentors and the giants who have gone before us, but true art only happens when [...]

Yesterday I made a small photo excursion to my home town castle ruins because we have some big festivities there at the moment. The weather was faboulos, so i decided to do some HDRs, including some of our old carousel that is being put up for the week. Due to the number of people (and [...]

To tell a story visually is difficult as any picture editor knows. You have to grab attention, communicate the essence of the story in an image and engage people so they follow through and read the article.

There’s the old saying that a ‘picture is worth a thousand words’ and it keeps being used because it’s [...]

What signs should you follow?

If you upload pictures on social media websites you will know there is usually  some form of audience judgement of your success as a photographer.
How good you are is supposedly measured in votes, clicks, awards, views, badges…
This is a good strategy for website owners because everyone likes a pat on the [...]

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Every photographer wants to improve. But how do we know we are getting better? Besides looking critically at our own work we listen to the opinions of others.

Allowing other people to judge your work is essential. But you have to be cautious about who’s opinion you value. It is human nature to give a negative [...]