Photography Quick Tips

Photo Quick Tips #1 The Shutter Release Button

Every other week I’ll be sharing some photography basics to help you get great photos of your family. Quick tip #1 Understanding how your shutter release button works. Your shutter release (that big button on the top of your camera) is a wonderful device but not many people realise that it has two functions (actually it has a lot more but essentially it has to two step function) The…
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Photography Quick Tips

Photography quick tips

Starting next week and posting every other week I’ll be sharing some photography basics and quick tips to help you get great photos of your family. If you have any specific questions you’d like to ask then please feel free to drop me an email or send me a message on either Twitter @memorygate or via the London Mums Facebook Page I’ll be starting off really simple and…
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The Baby Photographer

Google+ for London Mums and business

It’s been a couple of months since Google launched their latest attempt at social networking and so far the numbers that have already joined speak for themselves. Will Google+ cause a Myspacing of Facebook? Who knows, but as someone who likes to embrace all sorts of new innovations I’ve spent the last few weeks dipping in and out of the social network. I photograph…
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The Baby Photographer

When is best to have photographs taken of your baby?

For those of you that are Daily Mail readers you might have come across the story in yesterdays paper looking at newborn baby photography. The images from Glasgow based photographers Yvonne Watt and Fiona Potter are certainly reminiscent of Anne Geddes but it’s a style of photography that has become very popular. Newborn baby with Anne Geddes dolls People are always asking me…
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The Baby Photographer

The Baby Photographer - Delivery Day

As I work 100% on location and most of our clients are new mums, one of the most important parts of our business is delivering our work. A few weeks ago I wrote an article at Currentphotographer.com which was part of a series titled Marketing Campaigns for photographers. I describe why I think deliveries, done in person, are an important part of our business. I love all of our…
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The Baby Photographer

The baby photographer - Competition time

I’m going to start off my new series of articles here at London Mums with a little bit of a competition. I’m in the cute baby photography business so I wanted something to tie in with that. We’ve got a whole load of Memory Gate Photography vouchers sitting in the office waiting to send out to our winners. The competition Cute babies and crazy kids Everybody…
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