Photo Tips

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...

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...

12/07/2025 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Great Photos Aren’t Made with Settings Alone

I don't know where it's come from, but many photographers have become so consumed with “getting it right in camera” that sometimes we forget the most important part of photography: seeing. And I don’t mean glancing at the LCD screen to see what aperture, shutter speed...

02/06/2025 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

What AI Image Generation has Taught me as a Photographer

Note: All the images featured in this article are generated by Chat GPT based on original photographs, which I have taken. I've been playing with AI text-to-image generation a lot recently; whether it's seeing how AI tools can translate my photographs into illustrative or painterly renditions,...

08/05/2025 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Finding Creativity

Many of us labour under the belief that something isn't worth creating unless it's grand, iconic, spectacular, and, especially, if it will be award-winning or, at least, garner a lot of likes and faves on social media. But creativity is never about the output, or...

29/04/2025 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

When you grow bored of your own work

Is this a sign of creative growth? Photographers are creative people. We thrive on fresh visual stimuli, making pictures that excite us, that feed our desire to create new work. It's no surprise that every so often, we'll hit a wall and find our own work dissatisfying....

20/04/2025 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Camera Features That Really Matter in 2025

Digital cameras have come a long way since they entered the market decades ago, upsetting many analogue photography apple carts and changing the way we take and make images forever. If you're looking at getting a new camera, then you'll need to consider the kinds...