100 Photography Tips for Beginners (downloadable)

If you’re new to photography, it can be quite daunting. There is so much information on the internet about photography, but a lot of “mis-information” as well. If I started photography all over again, this is the advice I would give myself.

Through my personal journey of photography, I’ve learned a lot of lessons. This list is a distillation of all the lessons I’ve learned so far. None of these are “right” or “wrong” — they are just opinions of mine that can hopefully spark some new ideas in you. Feel free to pick and choose what resonate with you, and throw away the rest.

Table of Contents

Table of Content

1. “When in doubt, click.”
2. Be selective about what you decide to photograph; but once you find something good, shoot the hell out of it
3. Big cameras are overrated
4. Don’t “take” photos, “make” photos
5. Focus less on technical settings; focus more on composition and framing
6. “Set it and forget it”
7. What you subtract from a frame is more important than what you add to a frame
8. The most important question to ask yourself in photography: “Why do I make photos?”
9. Buy books, not gear



10. Photography workshops are a better “bang-for-the-buck” experience than attending photography schools

40 More Portrait Ideas

Recently we shared with you our free posing guide with 54 different portrait ideas to try at home. It was so popular, we decided to share some more portrait ideas from that shoot!

Our latest photography cheat sheet is another visual posing guide that you can download and use as inspiration for your portrait photography.

Often, though, a simple, new pose you’ve never tried before can give you the burst of inspiration you’ve been needing. A creative pose and a willing subject can get you shooting again.

To this end, in our infographic below we’ve suggested some portrait ideas for having your subject try a range of creative postures, such as posing on the floor.

We’ve also explored how different hair styles can add different moods to your portraits. And there’s much more.

54 Portrait Ideas: free downloadable posing guid

Are you stuck for portrait ideas? Sometimes we’ve found that you can over-think these things. When you put so much thought into backdrops and colour schemes and following others’portrait photography tips, you can overlook some of the fundamentals of portrait photography, such as your subject’s pose. We believe our posing guide below should help!

A great way to reignite you portrait photography with new portrait ideas is to shoot a model in your home photo studio, using as minimalist a set-up as possible. By experimenting with different poses you can see what works and get new portrait ideas to apply to your next shoot.

To help you along we’ve put together our latest photography cheat sheet, a visual posing guide that you can download and use as inspiration.