tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77602277314433015692024-03-08T00:17:10.667-08:00just give me a cameraAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351241830373161795noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760227731443301569.post-90359815106268538572014-02-26T12:50:00.000-08:002014-02-26T12:50:54.092-08:00Richmond Portrait Photography: Kew Gardens<br />
This is one shot from a shoot i did last weekend at Kew Gardens. The website is coming along nicely, although it has literally been back breaking work. My shoulders are aching from typing at work all day, then coming home sorting out dinner, bathing the girls and getting them ready for bed, reading them a bedtime story and then there is a small window of opportunity to work on the site before i go to bed and start the whole cycle again. I'm so excited about how it looks and i'm working towards having it go live in April.<br />
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Tomorrow i'm attending the Danien Lovegrove <a href="http://www.lovegroveconsulting.com/training_zone/concept_to_print.aspx" target="_blank">Concept to Print Seminar </a>in St Albans! <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351241830373161795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760227731443301569.post-73490497118204662852014-02-21T14:23:00.001-08:002014-02-26T12:52:20.335-08:00Senior Portraits UK SurreyI'm so excited by the shoot i did today. Senior Portraits haven't really arrived in the UK yet, but it's a style of photography i would definitely love to do more. Annabelle was an incredible model, although it was sunny the wind made it a bit chilly but she never once complained about taking her toasty winter coat off. And she held this pose even when she was photo bombed by an adorable golden retriever leaping in to the pond behind her!<a href="https://s3.yimg.com/so/7442/12683993013_f1b1cc9121_c.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://s3.yimg.com/so/7442/12683993013_f1b1cc9121_c.jpg" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351241830373161795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760227731443301569.post-63476183340981505352014-02-17T13:56:00.001-08:002014-02-17T14:08:46.067-08:00Indoor photography without the white backgroundI've been pretty quiet lately huh? The reason, i'm excited to say, is because i have been working on a brand new website! It's been something I spent most of 2013 thinking about, wondering if i could actually turn this hobby in to a career and i've decided to take the plunge. I'm nervous and excited and pretty much play <a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Gap/14013533?fb_action_ids=10153817089705383&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582" target="_blank">this video</a> on a constant loop to keep myself from curling in a ball and giving up!<br />
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So until the new site is up and running here's one picture. The weather in the UK at the moment is perpetual rain, the nearby river Thames has burst it's banks and flooded thousands of homes. We've pretty much stayed indoors lately. So to flex my photography muscles i've been trying my hand at indoor photography.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351241830373161795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760227731443301569.post-26619747461413821322013-12-22T12:17:00.001-08:002013-12-22T14:15:45.654-08:00A tiny preview
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351241830373161795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760227731443301569.post-68940276050255918932013-12-14T09:27:00.000-08:002013-12-14T09:27:26.242-08:00Bocketts Farm Santa's Grotto 2013I haven't done a family day out post in a while and i get a lot of hits to this site for <a href="http://justgivemeacamera.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/santas-grotto-at-bocketts-farm.html" target="_blank">'Bocketts Farm Santa's Grotto,' </a>so i thought I'd do a fuller post on our annual trip to Bocketts Farm.<br />
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Some will say that the admission price is steep but for a day out <i>and</i> Santa's Grotto and two very happy girls i can't help but feel it's worth it. We've been to a few Santa's Grotto's in our time, we've tried Garden Centres and Shopping Malls, but Leila is of the age where she is getting beginning to get a bit more clued up and asking questions and she tells me sagely she can spot the fake Santa's from the real one. The Santa at Bocketts Farm, so I'm told, <i>is</i> the real Santa, take it from my 7 year old and for that it's worth the extra money!<br />
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This year and last year we arrived about 11am and on both occasions we got the 1:15 time slot. Man alive i love a time slot rather than waiting in a long queue! This gave us time to play around the Farm - see the many pictures! For when the weather is against you there is plenty of indoor entertainer including two play barns with soft play areas. If you are lucky, as we were, then outside there are a number of play areas and we never felt like it was over crowded. For the animal lovers there are my husband's personal favourite the llama's, 90p for a bag of feed and they are your friends for life. The weather was great so we bought a picnic with us and ate outside but there is a tea room and indoor seating areas. After dessert the kids watched the pig races, Harry Trotter is the reigning champion so I'd put your money on him.<br />
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This led us neatly to our time slot to meet Santa. We waited at the Elves bus stop, where a kubota pulling a decorated trailer picks the kids up and the parents walk beside the trailer while the kids sing Jingle Bells on the short ride to Santa's Workshop. At the Workshop we are greeted by another elf who tells the children they need to say the magic word to open the doors to see Santa<i> (pssst the magic word is RUDOLPH)</i>. The Grotto is beautifully decorated and the Father Christmas is very convincing. The children sit on bales of hay and are invited to come up and see Santa, who writes their names in the book and gives them a present. There's no feeling of being rushed and all the children are completely in awe. As we all leave an elf invites the kids to pick a sweet from a basket. Then we spent the rest of the afternoon playing in the play barn.<br />
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They slept well that night!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351241830373161795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760227731443301569.post-16895788619347453492013-12-12T06:42:00.000-08:002013-12-12T06:42:21.103-08:00London Urban Portrait PhotographyA couple of weeks back my sister had a rare day off from work so fuelled by Star Bucks caffeine treats and some wintry determination we took to the streets of East London. It always amazes that in the heart of one of the busiest cities in the World you can duck down a deserted street and feel like the last person in an abandoned city. Angie writes the fabulous blog <a href="http://www.theawkwardblog.com/" target="_blank">The Awkward Blog</a> and she worked her magic here on Justgivemeacamera until i get my site up and running in the new year.<br />
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It was a chance to play around with my 45mm Tilt Shift lens, my favourite lens but not one i get to use often - with it's manual focus it's not the easiest lens to use when photographing children. Most photographers will tell you it's a luxury rather than a necessity and i debated on whether to buy it for a <i>long</i> time. I clocked up quite a few hours reading reviews and trawling through the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/28808923@N00/" target="_blank">Flickr Canon 45mm group</a>. I worried that i wouldn't be able to figure out how to use it, most reviews came with a tonne of techy jargon which left me asking so how do i focus? how do i expose? erm which knob do i twist? how do i rotate the lens?? - but <a href="http://vimeo.com/13533155" target="_blank">this Vimeo video</a>, <i>in plain English,</i> clarified things for me. So i bit the bullet and have not lived to regret it.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351241830373161795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760227731443301569.post-27333990008421809102013-11-30T11:45:00.003-08:002013-12-01T02:23:05.385-08:00Antenatal group portrait: Bushy ParkThe conversation with Vicky went something like this:<br />
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<i>"Would you be able to take some photos of my friends and i?"</i><br />
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I've never tried a shoot with this many people before and, being innately shy, I'm not going to lie my palms were sweaty!<br />
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But i needn't have been so nervous, it was a real privilege to spend a really fun afternoon with this amazing group of friends. The saying goes 'never work with children or animals, ' well after meeting these kids i totally disagree. They did everything i asked in one take and even baby Megan snapped to posing attention the minute the camera was pointed at her. I left them all that day laughing and feeding the ducks, they seemed more than friends they looked like a big family and as i drove home i thought to myself "aw i want to be in their gang!"<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351241830373161795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760227731443301569.post-7075980332994060432013-11-29T12:55:00.004-08:002013-11-30T02:33:43.561-08:00Portrait photography: London Last week i took a stroll in London Town with my sister. More to come! Taken with the 45mm Canon tilt shift lens.<br />
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I took this photo from a series back in the beginning of the Summer that marked a turning point for me in terms of how i approached children's portraits. I'd received a lukewarm response to a children's shoot I'd done for a friend and then shortly thereafter my sister came round excited about dropping £1400 on a Venture portrait session and a large framed picture. Great not even my own sister would hire me. Cue a deep photography funk in which I contemplated trading in my camera gear for an Alexander Wang handbag.<br />
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Instead I told myself my style wasn't their taste and that's okay. Then I picked myself up and went back to the drawing board. You see despite taking literally hundreds (and may be closer to thousands!) of photos of my own children, I'd never really thought about children's portraiture. With images of cool engagement shoots and couples portraits swirling through my head I'd take Leila out to practice honing my camera skills.<br />
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The thing is, i get asked mostly if I could take photos of children. Which is why when my friend asked if I wanted to take some photos of her adorable kids I couldn't pass up the chance, they are gorgeous! So I took everything I'd had practised like wide angled environmental portraits and cool urban backgrounds and thought I'd have it in the bag.<br />
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I sat back and contemplated the aforementioned shoot and whilst I liked the candid shots of the kids playing together, the photos that evoked the best response and, of the set would be the most likely to be framed on a wall, were the close up shots. What's that Robert Capa saying -<i>"if your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough" </i>- ah i get it now, I need to get physically closer - to become more involved and engaged with my subjects. Okay, so there's a starting point. Then I poured over endless photos of children's portrait photography thinking about what resonated in me, what elements did I love and what didn't I like so much.<br />
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So this was my first true attempt at Children's Portraits! Sure I'm not there yet by any means but every journey starts with a first step and I'll get there eventually.<br />
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Credit to these truly talented photographers who inspired me on my children's portrait discovery...<br />
<a href="http://nadiaswindellblog.com/" target="_blank">Nadia Swindell</a>, <a href="http://simplicityphotography.com/" target="_blank">Simplicity Photography</a>, <a href="http://jinkyart.com.au/" target="_blank">Jinky Art,</a> <a href="http://reveriemine.com/" target="_blank">Reverie</a>, <a href="http://www.clicksbyfer.com/" target="_blank">Clicks by Fer</a>.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351241830373161795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760227731443301569.post-81225035301997030102013-10-10T07:02:00.001-07:002013-11-22T16:20:34.880-08:00Surrey Childrens Photography: Polesden Lacey<br />
I'm not sure who enjoyed this shoot more, me or Isabella! I'd had a vision in my head of how I wanted these photos to look ever since my lovely friend Elaine and I first talked about doing a shoot. I told Bella that the idea was that she was a flower a fairy in a beautiful garden and she just ran away with it!<br />
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The accompanying slide show I gave her began with the words of J.M. Barrie <i>"All the World is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust"</i> and i used a piano instrumental of one of my favourite songs <i>"Pure Imagination" </i>which always takes me back to happy care free days in sunny Brunei watching <i>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</i> on my best friends enormous brown corduroy sofa!<br />
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The kids had such a great time they could barely stay still. Kempton Steam Engine Trust is a registered charity run by wonderful volunteers and a fantastic way
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351241830373161795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760227731443301569.post-82740414408197961562013-07-12T08:18:00.004-07:002013-07-13T03:14:17.233-07:00Where are the poppy fields in Surrey?I've been searching for luscious fields of poppies everywhere. After some extensive arm chair searching I learnt that in 2012 there was such a field just off the A3 motorway at the Ripley/Send turn off. So on one of the hottest days of the Summer armed with a Sat Nav and some determination I set off. Two hours later in seething hot traffic - thanks Mr. Jack Knifed the Lorry - I arrived in Send and confronted with fields and farmland and little country lanes I realised the ridiculousness of my quest. I had no idea where to go! I drove around aimlessly and had just about given up when i happened upon a tiny field with a small scattering of poppies. The sign said public foot path but the chained gate indicated that it was perhaps private property, still I'd come all this way, i meant no harm, and i would be very very quick. I only managed these few, Willa had fallen asleep, who could blame her, and and she wasn't playing ball. Not even the promise of ice cream could raise a smile.<br />
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Hopefully i will have better luck at my next destination<a href="http://www.mayfieldlavender.com/" target="_blank"> Mayfield Lavender.</a>....<br />
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