Danny Darlington

I am Danny Darlington, a portrait photographers residing in Germany. I have a passion for storytelling and emotional photos. For me, colour grading is a vital component of conveying the overall emotion of a photo. For this reason, I decided to work on a set of unique LR & PS presets to help bring the emotion and nostalgic feeling to your photos.

These presets have been meticulously developed using all of my expertise and years of experience as portrait photographer.

I hope you will enjoy them !

Salt in our Hair

Hi! We’re Hannah & Nick, two creatives from The Netherlands that run a ‘travel content creation’ company named Salt in our Hair. From our passion for traveling, photography, and sharing experiences, Salt in our Hair was born on Instagram. As of May 2016, we set ourselves the goal to capture the world in a way so that people see more than only their nine to five job.

Who’s Nick?

That guy with the big amount of curls, that’s me: Hi, I’m Nick! I would describe myself as a photo perfectionist. Keep on trying until it’s done! Yeah, that can take some time, but hey, taking photos is a thing we love both, so it’s not a punishment to do. Since traveling, I found myself to be interested in learning other languages.

Who’s Hannah?

Hmmm… Let’s see. I would probably describe myself as a girl who can’t function when her stomach is growling. That’s why I’m always keeping one eye on the streets to find the perfect bakery (with carrot cake). Next, I can’t resist puppy cuteness, especially at the beach with sunset.

But why Salt in our Hair?!

The name Salt in our Hair popped up when we drove back home from the beach at the North Sea in The Netherlands with sticky salty hair (quite an exciting explanation isn’t it? ?)

Most asked questions

  1. How do you manage to travel the world? ?️We created Salt in our Hair on Instagram on our first big backpack trip (Nov 2015) and started posting almost daily. At the end of this trip GoPro featured one of our photos.We went back to our corporate jobs (which we did love ❤️ by the way!) and started the blog (May 2016) where we post weekly, kept on posting daily on Instagram and traveled after every 12 weeks of working at our jobs. About 1 year later (May 2017) we were working about 80 hours a week each. 40 at our corporate jobs and 40 on Salt in our Hair in the evenings and weekends. But Salt in our Hair was getting quite some media attention which helped us grow faster and get a minimum but steady income out of it. Another thing was that we made sure our photos got shared on Instagram by using popular hashtags. Two years later (1 Nov 2017) we quit our corporate jobs and are working full-time on Salt in our Hair. Which is now our full-time, hard-working, dream job.
  2. How did you build and market your blog? ?In the Netherlands, we graduated school, in the creative industry as a graphic designer and web developer. Nick has 7 years of web development experience and Hannah about 3 years in Graphic Design. We had the skills, so it was an obvious decision to start a travel blog. We launched our travel blog in May 2016.It took us a year to really get it out there, which was pretty frustrating sometimes. Nick writes most of the blogs and Hannah makes sure all the visuals are on point.
    To market, we collaborate with bigger blogs or travel related websites to make sure people get to know our name. This, together with Pinterest helps us to get some good traffic to our blog.
  3. What Gear & Software do you use? ?Please remember that gear isn’t the key to making good content. Creativity, dedication, and trust are. We are now able to buy better gear but that didn’t gave us our first successes at all! Here’s what we used over the years.NowTake a look inside our bag: Travel Photography CameraYear 1 & 2

Nigel Danson

I started photography when I was 11 years old and fell in love with it. Although, my first results left a lot to be desired. What really got me interested was processing B&W films. I was intrigued by darkroom process and the magic of seeing the pictures come out of nowhere onto the photographic paper. Many hours were spent in the attic of my parents house in the semi-dark!

After founding and growing a software company from nothing to over 100 people I had a number of life changing events that changed my priorities in life.

In 2016 I had a serious car accident. My heart stopped and I rolled my car 3 times. Luckily I came away from it relatively unhurt and after another two 30s pauses in hospital I was fitted with an emergency pacemaker. All this happened in Yosemite National Park of all places! I went back to Yosemite when I had recovered and started my YouTube channel.

At some time in life you have crossroads that are presented to you or thrust upon you. I really believe that true happiness is about following your passion. And in 2017 that big change came for me. I decided that I wanted to experience the place I love so much more – the great outdoors.

Cara Zagni

Hi, I’m Cara a Norfolk based wedding photographer. When I’m not taking photographs I’m busy with my two children: Alfie, who is five and Aria, who is four!

When photographing couples it doesn’t even feel like work. I feel like I’m on a nice relaxing holiday compared to the chaos at home. Joking aside, I really wouldn’t change my family, they are something special.

I live in Norwich. I just love the countryside, the outdoors and an adventure. I’m a huge caffeine lover and have a slight red bull addiction! If my body would let me, I would eat chocolate all day, everyday. I’m a Harry Potter geek (I can’t believe I’m admitting this). I’m one of those ‘read all the books the day they came out’ kind of fans. I also strongly believe that gin is the answer to everything! I have three cats roaming the house, making themselves known most of the day and a gorgeous Labrador puppy called Raya who I’m low key OBSESSED with!

I am also a trained nurse so if too much alcohol is consumed or energetic dancing injuries occur, you’re in safe hands!

Can you tell I like caring for things hence the kazillion pets, kids and being a nurse!

Phil Holland

About Phil Holland


After a bit of gripping and gaffing for petty cash, Phil Holland began his career in the motion picture industry on the VFX side of things in 1999 working in the Scanning and Recording Department at Rhythm and Hues Studios. As a Digital Imaging Specialist he had the privelage to explore film rather deeply through cinematography, high resolution scanning, high resolution laser recording, and his efforts as a Digital Colorist on feature films. From 2011 on Phil has moved on to pursue his Directing and Cinematography career with a keen interest in bleeding edge digital cinema technology. As of late he’s been spending a great deal of time up in the air filming aerials in all over the globe as well as executing some smaller scale narrative and commercial pieces. Cinematic and Commercial Color developments have still played a major part of his professional career during these years. Outside of more creative color work, Phil has been an early adopter and innovator in HDR Color grading and delivery, has created color profiles for computers, tablets, and smartphones, as well as consulting on many color pipelines. You can learn more about about Phil and his work at www.phfx.com

CARMEN AND INGO

On Instagram our about us reads:
Parents, wedding photographers, we love life, work a lot, hard and we like it, entrepreneurs and mentors.

What began as a hobby almost 20 years ago has been our profession for over 10 years now. Side by side, over the last few years we have been able to accompany more than 330 weddings all over Europe. Almost as long, we pass on our knowledge to other photographers and those who want to become one. Whether in online trainings, workshops, live coachings or in the community, there are no secrets!

Thousands of colleagues use our workshops and tools as a basis for their own further education. The overwhelming positive feedback motivates us to continue.

Become a part of the Candi Community today and let us help you reach the next level together.

See you soon, best regards
Carmen and Ingo