It’s no secret that I have a lot of clients with their own blogs or YouTube channels, and in most cases it’s the first time they’ve worked with a professional photographer. It can a little daunting to have a stranger pointing a DSLR at you when you’re used to your mum or significant other taking your photos. What are you supposed to wear? How do you pose? I appreciate that it might be overwhelming, so I thought I’d write this post or anyone who’s thinking of investing in a photoshoot soon… and no, it doesn’t have to be with me! (But, you know, I’m pretty good. Just saying.)
Hi, I'm Alice, and I really like cameras. Photography is seriously expensive - whether you consider it a hobby, or a career. I'm lucky enough to already have most of the equipment I could possibly need, but when you're using a camera that's a few years old it's easy to start eyeing up the newer models.
I think we can all agree that 2017 was a bit crap... but at least we got some good makeup out of it. Here are my favourite drugstore picks from last year.
You've probably heard about the Sigma 30MM f/1.4 Lens already, because I go on about it all the damn time. But what makes it good - and worth the hefty price tag? Let's talk about why this is such a great investment for bloggers, Instagram users, photographers, and vloggers...
I never thought I'd be writing a post like this, because from the age of 22 my dream was to be a "YouTuber". But I just don't love YouTube anymore. Back in 2012, I had just started a Masters Degree, and was overwhelmed with stress and anxiety. YouTube was (or at least felt like) a safe place for me to escape.
In July 2015, I was maybe slightly freaking out about turning 25 - oh, fine, I was a mess. In all honesty I think my quarter life crisis started a couple of years before this point, but something about being twenty-five made it seem very official. My mum asked why I was so freaked out about the whole thing, and I replied “I just thought that when I turned 25, I’d have my shit together."
Remember that New Year's Resolution I wrote about before the beginning of the year? The one about how I was going to believe in myself? Well, I thought I'd give you a bit of an update on how that's all going.
I think we all like to beat ourselves up in January and think about everything we're doing wrong with our lives. Every year I tell myself that things will be different, that I will finally loose weight (that's a popular one) and have one of those social life things that I've heard other people talking about, they sure sound like fun. This year, I've only set myself one resolution, and it's possibly the cheesiest thing I've ever said in my life so you're going to have to bear with me here.
Maybe it's because I've been a student for the majority of my life, but I've always seen September as the chance for a fresh start. It's always been the beginning of a new academic year, and a potential clean slate, a chance to have completley reinvented yourself over the summer holidays and come back as a whole new person. I always loved that idea.
Seeing as I put together a GRWM video when I went to see Björk recently, I thought I should publish a few of the photographs I took while I was there. I've talked in previous videos about my struggle to get back into photography after my Master's, but I'm making a lot more effort to document my life again these days - and more importantly, I'm making more effort to live a life worth documenting.
