Designing albums is just one of the extra skills often required when you are running a full service pet photography business.

My album supplier provides a Photoshop template for the cover artwork and I use this to provide a...

Black dogs can look seriously stunning in photographs, however black is probably the most challenging of fur colours to capture.

When dog owners take photos of their black dogs with their phones, they're...

If you’re like most pet photographers, at some point you’ve struggled with setting the correct white balance of your images in the editing stage.

I hear it all the time - “I’ve been looking at it for too long!” - and...

Have you ever shot with backlight and ended up with flare in your image?

Flare occurs when direct sun hits the end glass element of your lens, and causes the image to be low in contrast, often with a red colour cast in the shadows.

While some...

Designing albums for my clients is something I love to do - there's just something special about a beautiful collection of images that tell the full story of the photo session.

Smart Albums makes it super quick and easy to design layouts,...

We’re all guilty of it.

When it comes to social media, we only tend to share the highlights, the good stuff. And it’s only natural. No one wants to see the crappy bits, the bad shots, the epic fails - well not unless they’re...

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Adobe Photoshop's awesome Content-Aware Fill feature is nothing short of amazing and in this video, I demonstrate how to get the best results.

I wanted to remove the entire weed from the corner of this image.

The...

In 2019 at the annual Mally Muster fundraising event for Brisbane dog rescue group Shamroq (Siberian Husky and Alaskan Malamute Rescue of Queensland), we ran a "Out of this World" themed photo booth.

The beautiful backdrop was custom painted for...

When editing your images in Lightroom, if the dog has some white fur you can quickly and easily set the correct white balance with this simple trick.

In this video, we start off with As Shot white balance. I cycle through Cloudy, Shade and then...

A question I see posted over and over again in online pet photography groups is this:

"What's the best lens for dog photography?"

And you know what? I don't really have the answer. ‍

Because everyone is different.

Just because we're all pet...