Networking night

Well I finally made it along to my first networking night, its only been 10 months since I first said I would go.

I went along with Ian Coyle. It was quite a pleasant evening. Was nice to meet those that I hadn't had the pleasure of meeting before, most notiably Barrie Spence, who is not only a thoroughly lovely man but has a printed portfolio that's so good it almost made me weep.

Its a shame I won't be able to attend every month, but I will try and not make it 10 more months.

Anyway, I took a few snaps... they look a little something like this...



The lovely Caroline



Alanna (who kept protesting that she's not a model, but a chaperone)



Marc, my first male model.

So, yeah, good night but went on way past my bedtime.

Camera club tommorrow, and a shoot with a girl from purestorm on Saturday.

Fun times.

When madness hits...

... its usually involving Erica. This time was no exception, she turned up with her new pink hair, and a matching hand! (pink hand not pictured)



I decided to invite Caroline (starsgoblue) along too. I've wanted to work with Caroline for ages, and she's just uber lovely.



Erica came with our friend Lisa who had never been infront of a camera before.



So we had a night of haribo, pringles, torturing children and annoying neighbours!

Shooting on Saturday with Claire who was the first person I shot, so should be interesting to see if I've improved.

Then the next Saturday I'm shooting with a model from Purestorm.

Then the next weekend I have the wonderful Ely coming to stay for the weekend.

Then fizzy!

Then a group shoot I organised, so a busy couple of months shooting wise!


HOW VERY EXCITING.

Hannah came to play

A lovely new model called Hannah came over yesterday, after a slightly hectic start (it started snowing and Murray was an hour late with the lights because of traffic!) it turned out to be a hugely enjoyable shoot. Hannah is lovely.

I've also discovered I need a step or something if I plan to shoot models over 5ft.

Anyway... photos!









Thanks to Hannah for being such a star!

Lovely Lauren and awesome people

James (jazzy) came over to my house on Tuesday and let me play with his lights, lenses and camera. Here are some of the photos. (I took some on James'camera too but he hasn't sent them over yet so expect another update)

Here are some of the photos







Lauren is great and I'll definitely be working with her again, she's a dancer so need a big space to work in.

I would like to end this post with my list of awesome people.

Erica Von Stein
Bill (WMcK)
Alex Ingram
Simon Pole
James (jazzygf)
Barrie Spence
Les Johnstone


You're all blooming awesome. :)

Shiny shiny!

Well, I was really bored one night... so I took a led light, and a shiny heart thing my boyfriend brought back from a festival... and these were the results.

Most of the tutorials I've seen recommend f/5.6 to f/8 for these light painting things, but these were taken at much smaller apertures... around f/22 with shutter speed varying from 3 to 10 seconds.











I didn't spend much time with these, but I'm going to see if I can find different colours of LED lights and try again, and maybe experiment with some camera tossing. Exciting!

Kiddies

These are just some random snaps of our kids, who luckily for me are the biggest posers ever. They helped me learn how to use my camera.

Lucie















Andrew


Kristin

Claire

Well it's been a little while, and I haven't blogged about my shoot with the lovely Claire yet.

Claire isn't a model, this was her first time infront of the camera. Claire was screwed over by another photographer out of winning a facebook competition, so I thought I'd take her out to play.

I had lots of issues unfortunately, it was minus 3 and the viewfinder kept misting up so I couldn't see if anything was in focus.

Here are some photos of the gorgeous girl