Photographing Very Young People
Photographing kids is fun. They just want to enjoy themselves. They aren’t worried about how they look on camera. We just set up the background and threw them all together and started snapping away ..
Baby Portraits
A short while ago I took some photos of Sophie at her home. Her sister Bethany also wanted to be in the picture.
Studio Photography: Charlot
On Friday I photographed Charlot in the new ‘studio’. Charlot wanted some new shots to update her website. She wanted them on a white background.
New Lights
I decided to learn to take ‘studio’ type photos. The reason being that I’d like (one day) to be able to take commercial photos (to make some money). Yes – it’s not (at the moment) about ‘art’ necessarily. It’s about justifying the amount of time and money invested by getting some sort of monetary return. So I ordered a ‘studio lighting kit’. At the moment I don’t have a studio but at least if I know how to use the equipment – and how to get the best out of it – I might know what to do in a studio should I ever find myself in one … Yesterday my new strobe lights arrived. There are 3 of them, with stands, umbrellas and softboxes plus a background stand and large backround sheets. I quickly set up one light and took a few pictures of my daughter Ruth. It took a while to get the exposure about right (and it helped when I put some batteries in the remote sensor – my excuse was that there were no instructions with any of the kit!) and eventually I got a couple of OK shots – Here’s one of the pictures ..
Cruising the Broads
We’re having a family holiday on the Norfolk Broads this year (as we couldn’t justify another trip abroad after doing South Africa and the Greek islands already this year). Fully expected rain but have had a week of great weather so far – until today when it started raining. Have taken lots of photos and the ones in this blog entry were done on the iPhone (with a bit of snapseed editing). One more week to go and a trip across Breton water in an hour or so …
