How to See Your Family — the Vestige photography guide, $69 | Vestige
The Guide

Learn to shoot ‘In vogue’ family portraitson your iPhone or camera(using natural light)

A mother carrying her toddler along a Melbourne laneway, the father walking beside them, photographed in black and white
a laneway, a wednesday. nobody was asked to stop.

How to See Your Family is a 9-lesson photography guide that teaches you how to take beautiful, natural photographs of your own family — using the camera you already have.

Buy the guide — $69
74 pagesnine lessonsnine exercisestwo Vestige presetsinstant download

it was never the camera.

A baby sitting up on a bed with a cup, lit by a single window, everything else fallen away to shadow
Lesson 01 · find the light
A baby walking through a hard wedge of afternoon sun, long shadow across the floor
Lesson 01 · soft light, hard light
Seen from above: an ice block on an open sketchbook, scribbled drawings, rings laid out, small bare feet at the edge of the frame
Lesson 05 · the ordinary on purpose
Two hands clasped, an older hand held inside a younger one
Lesson 04 · get closer
A baby in a high chair lit by a single window, sheer curtains glowing behind
Lesson 02 · stop posing, start waiting
A father holding his toddler in a dark bathroom, brushing the child’s teeth, one strip of warm light across their faces
Lesson 03 · the moment is found, not caught
An open palm resting in a bowl, a fine bangle lying across it, rings on two fingers, late sun raking across the skin
Lesson 06 · see the whole frame

this is for you if.

  • you love photographing your family
  • you want to make something that lasts
  • you want to feel closer to the people you love
  • you want photographs that look like your life
  • you’ve lost someone, and wish you’d kept more of them

What’s inside

The light
  • 01Find the light that’s already there
The moment
  • 02Stop posing. Start waiting.
  • 03The moment is found, not caught
Where you look
  • 04Get closer
  • 05Photograph the ordinary on purpose
  • 06See the whole frame
  • 07Get yourself in the picture
Keeping it
  • 08Think in sets, not single shots
  • 09Choose them, and hold them
The grade
  • ATwo tones, one eye — the Vestige colour and black-and-white presets
a sneak peek inside.
6 of the 74 pages
Look inside — take an exclusive peek at How to See Your Family The cover of the guide — How to see your family, a guide to photographing the people you love Lesson one from the guide — find the light that's already there A page from the guide — a child asleep in afternoon light A page from the guide — moments announce themselves A page from the guide — thirds, lines, frames A page from the guide — installing the Vestige image presets
01 / 05 turn the page
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The photographer

where this came from.

Liane Hurvitz photographing herself in a mirror at home, pram beside her — black and white

Almost everything in this guide was photographed during my postpartum months, in our apartment — limited space, not much sleep, and one beautiful window of light. No studio. No props. If this way of seeing survived that season, it will survive yours.

I couldn’t keep everything. This is how I learned to keep something.

— Liane Hurvitz · Melbourne

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Customer Reviews

A child sitting in a sunlit window, photographed from outside through the glass by her mother — a reader of the guide
Photographed by a readerHer own child, her own window
Message from a reader: Absolutely perfect. The way you’ve stepped out the guide so far has been beautiful. I’m wandering around the house inspecting the light — she said look for the light. A reader · after lesson one

Not my photograph. Hers.

Message from a reader: Update — husband is v. impressed with the photos I took today. What a gift! A reader · a week in
Message from a reader: I’ve been following a lot of photographers lately, but I also am enjoying getting better at taking photos of our kids, so the idea of a guide for that which wasn’t cheesy was so appealing. A reader · on why she bought it
A small child lying in a shaft of hard sunlight, one hand raised into the light, everything around him in shadow
Photographed by a readerHer own child, her own light

Liane’s guidebook has changed the way I see not just my family, but the world as a whole. As I moved through each section I found myself aching a little for a do-over with some moments, wishing I could turn back time to capture them properly.

Casey · on finishing the guide
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P.S. You know how this goes if you close this tab. Another month goes by, and you’ve missed the moment, the memory, and a time in your life that will never be lived again.

$69 gives you the exact tools to capture the life unfolding in front of you — beautifully, honestly and in a way that lasts.

Liane Get instant access — $69
Before you buy

The questions you may have

Do I need a real camera?

No. Almost everything in the guide was made on available light and works on a phone. Where a camera does something a phone can’t, I say so.

Do I need Lightroom?

Only for the two presets. The Lightroom app is free, works on your phone, and there’s a walkthrough. The lessons need nothing installed.

I’m not creative. Will this work for me?

Yes. This isn’t a gift some people are born with. It’s attention, and attention can be learned. That’s what the nine lessons teach.

How long does it take?

Lesson one takes ten minutes tonight. The rest is yours to work through at whatever pace suits — most people do one a week.

What arrives, and when?

Everything, the moment you pay: the PDF, both presets and the install walkthrough — on screen and by email. Nothing is posted. Nothing recurs.