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Photography basics FREE online course

Welcome to our first photography basics blog post at London Mums. Every other week we’ll be going through some photo fundamentals to help you go from shooting everything in blind automatic mode to awesome photographer (or close enough). To compliment these posts we also have a fortnightly weekly photo challenge. Every other week we’ll set a theme and your homework for…
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Winners of our London photography competition!!

It’s been a long process but we have finally selected the winners of the London Mums photography competition. The amazing prizes are sponsored by a Fish in Sea and authors of Never Mind the Botox. This was the challenge for our photography competition’s theme London Through London Mums’ Eyes : London Mums‚ life can be very exciting and the backdrop of our iconic capital with…
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The Baby Photographer

Halloween Photo Competition Winners

Congratulations to our winner of the Halloween photo competition with this photo titled Count (Snoozy) Dracula! There were two other runners-up Pumpkins got the giggles! and Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble….something occuring in the garden! While we’re on the subject of photos….. Memory Gate photography will be at The London Mums…
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The Baby Photographer

Google+ Business Pages

Well it’s taken Google long enough but finally you can set-up your own business page on Google+. Thankfully you can manage and switch between your personal Google+ account and various business pages you set up. You can also choose to comment as your personal account or as your business page (mmmm, sounds familiar). If you already have a Google Places listing then by adding in…
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Photography Quick Tips

Photo Quick Tips #3 Move

I’ll share a little secret with you all……. the easiest way to get better pictures is to move. You have two options; Move yourself or move your subject. It’s really as simple as that but let me explain further…….. Move yourself This is not just about moving to get a better view at a wedding or standing up out of chair to get a…
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Mumpreneur Tips

Identifying a new target market

I’m continuing my weekly articles with a brand new series titled Mumpreneur Business Tips. I’ll be sharing a few ideas that might help you develop your own business. They’ll be everything from marketing to social media tips so I hope you’ll find something useful. I’ll be posting a different article every other week and if you’ve already enjoyed the Photo…
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Photography Quick Tips

Photo Quick Tips #2 Assume the position

This might be our 2nd photography quick tip but it’s the first thing was taught in my photography A level many moons ago…… how to stand and hold your camera when taking a picture. This might seem an obvious thing to point out but I’ve looked over my shoulder at weddings and you’re all guilty of bad photography posture! The advent of digital changed many…
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The Baby Photographer

Photography Training

It doesn’t matter how long you’ve worked in this business there’s always something new to learn. As I write this I’m traveling back across London on my way from a full day training course with photographer Ray Lowe. Ray has been working as a professional photography since before I was born so I’d be a fool not to jump at the chance to learn from him. There was…
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Photography and education

A few weeks ago my brother in law received his highers results (Scottish A levels) via email at about 1am in the morning. Now he looking to take the next step in his education and this got me thinking about photography degree courses. I graduated from my photography degree over 10 years ago, having just missed out on a free higher education by 12 months. Back then University fees were…
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