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First Impression That Wins Clients: 12 Psychology-Backed Strategies Every Creative Professional Needs
Everyone hopes to make a positive first impression with clients, models, colleagues, and others. You’re meeting a potential client for the first time. Perhaps it’s a nervous bride clutching her mood board, or a corporate marketing director who needs headshots for fifty executives by Friday, or it’s your first day in the office with new colleagues. Within seconds (literally just one second, according to a Princeton research), they’ve formed an impression that...
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New Laws Mean The End Of Street Photography?
Despite the drama in many debates and even in some parts of the video below, I’m not entirely sure this could be the end of Street Photography… But maybe it is? These days, everyone is focused on AI and all that auto-generated images can do to disrupt the industry. But at a much higher level, governments are introducing or updating their privacy laws, tightening them to the point that Street Photography may...
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Collection, Award-Winning Prints Series
I created Collection for all of you who wish to hang award-winning and prestigious photographs on your walls. In these past years, I have been blessed with features at exhibitions, magazine publications and awards. I started taking photos almost 30 years ago and had done jobs in this field. But it’s only four years that I shifted careers and made this a full-time profession. Achieving all this in such a short time...
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Put A (Hoya) Sparkle In Your Photos and Videos
Remember my Starry Nights short film? No? Well, it’s here to watch if you missed it: https://youtu.be/-1xWKCKgwG4 I mention it because I made that short film using the Hoya Sparkle filters, both 4x and 6x variants. These creative filters from Hoya make for very interesting results. But more importantly, they provide consistency and reliability to every image where you want to add a starburst effect (and maybe some soft diffusion). Something that...
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5 Tips To Photograph Strangers - Street Portraits in Istanbul
If you follow my Stories on Instagram, you know that I just returned from my trip to Istanbul… And I immediately felt the need to publish these tips for photographing strangers! This trip was a game-changer for my Street Photography, and here I’m sharing all I did to capture street portraits. In these past days in Istanbul, my Street Photography was pulled to a completely different place. This beautiful city has had...
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Rule Of Thirds, And How To Break It (Photography 101)
When you’ve been a photographer for many years, you give some knowledge for granted, and the Rule of Thirds is certainly among those. But as of today, this is still the most searched photography-related topic on Google. So maybe I should write about it. If there’s enough interest, I might cover more Photography basics. Let me know in the comments if it’s something you would like to see here. What is the...
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Creative Advice: Look Away From Your Bubble
This must be the first creative advice I give in this blog. But I have developed a few techniques to help with my creativity, and I would like share them on these pages. So let’s begin. One that’s always been fruitful is constantly looking away from my “bubble”. In some ways, it resembles the advice to go out of your comfort zone. Design For example, I attend design conferences not directly related...
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Trust your (photographic) gut feelings
I often get my best results when I follow my gut feelings rather than plan for something. This story is a good testament to that. Since I returned from beautiful Georgia (more on that in a future post), the weather in London has been pretty grim and depressing. It rained almost every day, and it was generally cold and grey most of the time. This day was no exception. And frankly, there...
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Packing for a Month-Long Multi-City Trip: my Photography Kit
And so I’m packing for my month-long travel (longer, actually), and as always, the question is, “What do I bring with me?”. It wasn’t always the case, but now I’m used to travelling light—sometimes super light. But that’s for a week maximum, while this time, I’ll be away for at least a month. I think I’ve been smart in choosing to travel between countries that will have consistent weather all along; only...
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