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18/12/2025 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Why Photographers Need to Stop Thinking About the Rule of Thirds

Trigger warning: This article may cause offence because it encourages you to dispense with a “much followed” rule in photographic composition and instead develop a more critical approach to seeing and composing. If you love following rules in a mindless, drone-like way, we advice that...

10/12/2025 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Stumbling Stones and the Poetry of Interruption in Photography

Photography is often taught as the craft of guiding the viewer’s eye into the frame. Compositional techniques—leading lines, framing, rhythmic repetition—are treated as visual stepping stones that guide the gaze smoothly through an image. Yet photography is equally capable of cultivating interruptions: small visual moments...

30/11/2025 In Galleries, Venture Blog By sengmah

Top FIFTEEN of 2025!

The year is about to wrap up, and while it's been a full year of travel, tours and shoots, it seems like it was only last month that the calendar ticked over to 1 January 2025! Does anyone else feel like time is just speeding...

28/11/2025 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Picture Styles: The Hidden Creative Tool in your Camera

Are you leveraging the power of in-camera picture styles? You may have come across them while scrolling through your camera's menu items. Modern digital cameras come loaded with a range of built-in picture styles -- Canon's Picture Styles, Nikon's Picture Controls, Sony's Creative Styles, OM System's Picture Modes and Art Filters,...

24/11/2025 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

How reliable is AI as a photo critic?

As photographers, we all reach points in our creative journey where we seek honest, insightful feedback, whether it's just for improving our own creative work, or for images that we might be considering entering into competitions and awards. It's a fact that constructive critique, taken on...

17/11/2025 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Shoot What Matters: How Personal Conviction Shapes Photographic Vision

At the heart of meaningful photography lies this very simple question: "What do I care enough to notice?" It is a question that has nothing to do with equipment or focal lengths or exposure settings, and everything to do with the your inner landscape as a photographer....

10/11/2025 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Shooting in direct sunlight – Hot tips

Shooting in hard, direct sunlight — what it gives you (and takes away) You know the old photographer's adage: "Shoot in the golden hour. The light is beautiful. Shoot in open shade. The light is soft and flattering." It's become dogma for many happy snappers, that we...

05/11/2025 In Travel, Venture Blog By sengmah

Slovenia: A photographer’s Heaven

I’ve just experienced two weeks of photographic bliss in Slovenia, scouting locations and opportunities for photo tours in this gorgeous country. Never heard of Slovenia? Have a look at the images. Slovenia is a photographer’s heaven — morning mist, autumn colours, magnificent mountains, mirror lakes,...

03/11/2025 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Photography as Conversation

The visual arts has always been one of the most compelling endeavours of humanity. And photography has endured the test of time, from the first daguerreotypes to more contemporary digital creations. We all love a great photo: one that makes us stop, look, think, reflect...

02/08/2025 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Unscripted Brilliance: Candid Photography and the Pursuit of Freshness

This is going to sound controversial but I think there is so much mimicry in photography nowadays that the medium is at risk of crumbling into stale banality. While we may blame images-based social media (such as Instagram), the fact is that photographers have long sought...

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