The Documentary Mindset and Your Event
It’s pretty standard operating procedure these days to take photos at every possible event or achievement in your life, or the lives of loved ones and family members. This results in a plethora of photos, but most people experience the disappointment that comes with reviewing photos of a big event and discovering that a large […]
Colour Me Bad: Choosing a Colour Palette
Design always starts off seeming pretty easy. After all, you know what you like; you might not be able to charge strangers a lot of money for your design ideas, but you can certainly put together a room for yourself! Except, most of us discover after our initial attempts to design our own spaces that we’re not nearly as good at it as we thought we would be. And the number one thing newcomers to the design world struggle with? The colour palette.
How to Not be Boring: Kid’s Room Design
Sometimes it’s difficult for adults to remember what it was like to be a kid: Restless with endless energy, humming with imagination and creativity, jumping from obsession to obsession because everything in the world is brand-new, a revelation. If you have children, you know that all of this restless energy can make coming up with […]
Buying DSLR Cameras
If you take an interest in photography in the modern age, you most likely start off with the camera built into your phone. And the good news is, with advancing technology combined with inventive software, it is possible to take some very striking and often amazing photos with just a smartphone and a good, creative […]
What to Buy a DIY Interior Designer
When it comes time to start putting your shopping list together for a gift-giving occasion – whether it’s Christmas or a birthday or a graduation – you naturally try to coordinate the gifts with the passions of the person you’re shopping for. For those of us who feel like we don’t have a creative bone […]
Creative Ways to Preserve Family Moments
Christmas always makes us think about our families and the memories they create, which leads us naturally enough to ponder how we can effectively capture those memories. Keeping a record of your family through the decades is an important goal, but also an emotionally satisfying one. Children grow up and move away, siblings move on […]
So You Want to Become a Wedding Photographer… 7 Things You Need to Know
Wedding photography can be fun, it’s also hard work. Find out what you’re in for with photographer Eleanor Maguire’s list of 7 things you need to know before you take the plunge.
How to Choose a Wedding Photographer
For many people, the photographer is just one of many details they have to deal with when planning their wedding. This is a potentially disastrous approach, however; the photographer isn’t just a detail no one will remember ten years from now, like your choice of place settings or the centrepiece at the tables – they […]
Embracing Fail: Photography Ideas
Photography is, above all else, a mode of self-expression. What we choose to photograph, how we choose to compose and later print it, and the decisions we make when choosing photos to display or pass on to friends and family are all deeply rooted in our self-image and personality. When it comes to photography ideas, […]
Decorating Your Living Room to be Inviting
Sometimes we lose track of the actual purpose of interior design and home decorating. It’s easy to start thinking of your home as a personal canvas on which to create with total freedom, making our house into precisely the sort of place we feel comfortable in and want to spend time in. We choose the […]