by Katie | Oct 3, 2017 | Behind The Magic, Equestrian, Latest Updates, Weddings
Have you looked at three photographers one charging £50 for a photoshoot, another £150, and another £500 and wondered the difference? Let me try to explain to you, and more importantly how and why that is not their ‘hourly’ rate. To break it down I’m...
by Katie | Sep 26, 2017 | Behind The Magic, Equestrian
Last week I took the opportunity to meet up with three fellow equestrian photographers, Rose, Laura & Louise, for an afternoon of idea sharing and education. All four of us are established photographers but have different styles and areas of expertise, so what...
by Katie | Sep 19, 2017 | Behind The Magic
I was asked recently how I became a professional photographer. Did I go to college or university to study or was it all ‘just there’? In my case I fall somewhere in the middle, I would like to think that I have a natural eye for composition and subjects,...
by Katie | Sep 12, 2017 | Behind The Magic, Equestrian, Latest Updates
Do you work in a business that needs marketing images? Do you have a project to do for college, university, school or even work? If so the majority will probably have utilised google image search to find a suitable photo to use at some point. There is no denying it,...
by Katie | Sep 5, 2017 | Behind The Magic
A lesson most photographers learn the hard way is to have backups, and not just one, of their photos. There is nothing worse than a card or hard disk failure and loosing irreplaceable photos. I learnt the hard way when a hard drive filed on me a few years ago....
by Katie | Aug 22, 2017 | Behind The Magic, Equestrian, Latest Updates
Horses are naturally wary animals and many are known as being spooky especially at new things. Portable lighting which I use for my studio lit photoshoots are incredibly powerful and do result in a wide range of reactions from horses. From all that I have photographed...
by Katie | Aug 15, 2017 | Behind The Magic, Equestrian
You may think this post is going to be a rant and it is but perhaps not in the way you will expect… ‘Everyone thinks they are a photographer’ and the truth is everyone is. In the same way that everyone is a cook. Some do it well, some do it badly,...
by Katie | Aug 8, 2017 | Behind The Magic, Equestrian
Now I love to photograph tight crops. The reason? The photograph is (normally) all about the subject and cluttered backgrounds detract, tight crops focus in on that subject and allow you to tell a different photograph. Granted there are times where you want the...
by Katie | Aug 1, 2017 | Behind The Magic, Equestrian
I love love LOVE the golden hour, although actually it’s normally not an hour long and there are two of them per day (weather dependant!). As the sun progresses through the sky during the day it starts low to the horizon moves over head until again dropping down...
