Below we have complied our top 10 tips to improve your photography, some of these tips don’t just pertain to DSLR camera’s they can be used for all your photography be that with your pro camera or even your mobile phone! Feel free to share these with your friends via social media. If you are interested in learning more about your camera and taking great shots read below and maybe consider joining us on a retreat or workshop, all the courses and workshops we currently have in the system are here. #1 Take More Photos Outside There’s nothing better than natural light to illuminate your subjects. When you photograph outside, you don’t usually have to use a flash, and it makes the subjects much more colourful and vibrant. It is essential to make sure the sun is behind you so it is lighting up your subjects from the front or partial side. If the sun is behind your subject, you will find you’ll have to use a flash. #2 Take Photos at Sunset or Sunrise A good photographer will tell you that these are the best hours to take photographs. Why might this be, it’s because the light comes in […]
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Couran Cove 2017 (Visit this page: Couran Cove Photography Retreat 2017) So at the beginning of the year we looked at our commitments to our photography like Real Estate, Commercial and Motorsport and pretty much decided we didn’t have time to run a Training Retreat like what we’ve done in the past, let alone a second retreat! Then the opportunity to run a Winter Weekend Retreat came up and we couldn’t miss the chance, so this weekend just gone we had 16 photographers join us for a pretty amazing weekend, they all did so well and we had a ball running it. Here are a couple of quick images from the weekend. And so when we were preparing for this event writing up our notes for different sessions another opportunity came about for a Second Retreat for 2017. (Yes we did say we were running just one event this year!) Couran Cove is nestled on South Stradbroke Island in Moreton Bay, its a 40min picturesque boat ride from the Northern Gold Coast, its also one of our very favourite places to photograph. Four years ago we ran 3 retreats here in the same year, its amazing. So when the opportunity […]
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The power of a great testimonial can be hard to judge, sometimes you think the best ones will ring in the referrals and sometimes just a simple one-liner will. As a photographer you have probably been told, even had drummed into you from your peers or maybe a mentor that you should have as many testimonials as you can get. We have, from many! We do subscribe to the notion that testimonials are good for your business, and of course your ego! 😉 But do Testimonials actually get read? Its a great question and one we’ve pondered for some time, we even searched on the interwebs to find out, Google didn’t really help much! What we have found and its been through asking friends, family and peers, so its by no means a scientific answer, the answer was yes, yes they do, however we found that if there are anymore than 3-5 of them they read the first 3, maybe jump a few read another then go on to make a decision (if there is a decision to be made). Can you “Build your Reputation” on testimonials? Its a great place to start for sure, as they say […]
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We’ve written about this before and I think its a great time to bring it up again as its the New Year. As photographers should we Blog or Not Blog? We are firm believers in blogging for photography, as a photographer we want to share as much of our work as possible. In 2016 we blogged around 10% of our work, it was one of our failings for the year, or better described as one of our “lessons learned”. When we took the time to blog about our shoots we gained quite a bit of traffic on our website, we had enquires from new customers, we gained more traction on our Social Media. This year, 2017 we are determined to Blog 100% of our shoots, be that Real Estate, commercial or motorsport work, even our Training Courses. Its quite easy to have a blog, but don’t get confused from posting on Social media like Facebook and think oh that’ll do for my Blog, whilst Facebook is a good platform and we do publish our work there, it could be gone tomorrow and all your work will be gone with it! With a Blog its on your own website, […]
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We are kicking off again for 2017 the Photo of the Week Challenge – whats that you may ask? Well each week we will post a Challenge Photo Subject in the Header of our Digital Realism Photography Training Facebook Page. Over the course of the week, Monday to Sunday we will challenge you to upload and share a photo to the page for that weeks subject. The Photograph we choose as the winner will get to grace our Training page Header for the following week. Before we get started though we need a comprehensive list of subjects and that where we are looking to you to help us build the list of subjects, we have some in mind but we are sure you will have lots more we can use. So with this in mind leave a comment below or you can Contact Us directly via our page with your list. The more subjects the merrier the Challenge will be. Lets get 100 subjects! HAVE YOU JOINED OUR MAILING LIST? DON’T MISS OUT ON OUR SPECIALS + TIPS & TRICKS.
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We have gift vouchers that can be used for any occasion available for any of our work, be it photography in the studio or your home, or for any of our courses and retreats. In 2017 we are excited to announce that we will be running our photography courses once again. We had 18 months away from the courses working on our own photography skills and opening the new studio. Now we have both the time and the space to do both. More details on these and the Mid Year retreat is coming soon. Our gift vouchers can be for any dollar value you like and can be used on any of our services. These are great for Christmas or Birthday presents, or especially for someone who may have just got a camera as a gift and doesn’t know how to use it 🙂 To Purchase just call us on 07 3372 2333 or via our Contact Us Page
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