I totally understand the thought process behind it… You want to attract more clients/customers, so you start offering every style of photography to appeal to as many people as possible. But, as controversial as it may be, I genuinely believe this is at the heart of why many small businesses fail. & the reasons I...

A few years ago, when I started getting fully booked 3 months out I thought it was a blip. It obviously wouldn’t last.  But fast forward 3 years & not only did it continue, but demand rose & rose. So despite doubling the number of sessions I offer to 6 – 8 sessions a week,...

It’s a question I get asked daily & so thought I’d pull together a little blog post to give you a little behind the scenes on my favourite presets to use. HeliaLoves Presets; helialoves / bw04 This is my absolute favourite B&W preset & my go to for every B&W edit I do. I struggled...

It’s a question I’m asked almost daily, ‘how do you get your whites so white?’ which sounds like an advert for washing powder, but is actually the bain of many photographers lives. Whites are tricky, no actually that’s me being polite, shooting against white is a fu*king pain in the bum. Honestly of all the...