First shoot done.

First Summer Shoot

Today i half finished my first shoot of many over the summer, I still have 2 more parts to this shoot to photograph, but I'm waiting for a brighter day to take some as, my other location was in a small woods with a little stream so there is very little light there. I also have to sew the ribbon and elastic into the ballet shoes. The make up and hair was both done by me, the model is my little sister, thank you Niamh !. So here is a few from today. When i've taken the other photographs i will update this blog post :D

This last photo as you can tell is not fantastic, but it was just a little experiment , i wanted to try and capture the movement of the feet in a elegant and slow way, it hadn't worked like i wanted it too, but i put it on anyway to show you my idea.

Summer shoots

Summer shoots !!

It's the summer holidays, i have lots and lots of idea's and lots of people willing to help. I want to take more photographs over summer as i will have more people available to photograph, and the weather here in Britain is glorious at the moment which is all the more reason to get out and about with my camera.

 For the last few weeks I've been browisng the Internet, flickr and pinterest for idea's for fairy-tale photo shoots, luckily enough i have a family mainly full of girls who love nothing more than being dressed up & having their hair and make up done !, but i would also like to do a Robin Hood/Peter pan shoot, with my younger brother who doesn't appear much. My pinterest and flickr is full of inspiring idea's and edits that one day i hope i will be able to achieve, i will leave the links below. The photograph below is of my idea's I've been putting together it's taken a while to actually getting round to taking the photographs as I've had a few things to buy & I'm still hoping to get a few more things, then i shall be able to crack on. In at least 2 of the shoots I'm going to be using coloured smoke, does anybody know if you have to tell anyone you're going to be doing this in case people think there is a fire somewhere ? if you do know please comment on this blog post or let me know on my facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/AFPhotography12?ref=hl) Can't wait to take the photographs and show the results, i will be taking a series of them at Lydiate Hall, another at some woods with a little stream running through it, hopefully some at the beach and some in a field. Can't wait to show you all, be prepared for glitter, dresses, bubbles, balloons & more. Please share my blog with family and friends so they too can see My work :).
Flickr favourites link, which shows my inspiration: http://www.flickr.com/photos/abbifairchild/favorites/

Pinterest board with more inspiration on:
http://pinterest.com/abbii28/fairytale-inspired-photoshoot/


 


This is abit of my planning

I'm Thinking shadows ?

A little while ago, i was inspired by a few photographs i had seen on flickr and the Internet of someone pressed up against a sheet creating creepy shadows. So i did my own little take on it, and really enjoyed it, i was surprised how such a simple idea could look so good, so i think i might so it again, maybe use more props different people and different poses. It's quick,simple & effective, unlike my other idea's which are confusing, require detailed planning etc. So you know what i mean, the photographs below are the ones i previously did for a project in college. I will hopefully do some new ones this weekend :)

New Ferret

So here he is, my new ferret as of yet he has no name !. He looks like he's wearing a mask so we where thinking of Robin.. from Batman & Robin but i'm not sure about it so if anyone has any suggestions let me know, when Alfie died i knew how much i'd miss not having him about and him always watching whats going on, but instead his cage would be an empty space, so i couldn't wait to get my new little one. Here he is :) !

 

Getting carried away !

When i have idea's i run with them, miles and miles. I spend hours on pinterest, flickr and looking in magazines for endless inspiration & that's my problem, i have so so many people photographs and graphic designers that inspire me my idea's just spiral. As you've probably all gathered fairy tale's are my thing, flickr is dangerous, my favourites is full of amazing photo's I've found on there, but they make me wish i could edit my photographs the way they do, but i can't ! (just yet) and this upsets me. 

I always picture what i want my images to come out like, but when I've done it's nothing like i imagined and i feel a little deflated, I'm the most un-confident person when it comes to my own work, but this is why I'm on this journey, because i want to learn & i want to produce great photographs and pieces of work i can be proud to say I DID THAT. So me, my photographs, my camera & photoshop are all on a journey to produce amazing things that i can feel very proud of. My recent shoot 'The face of a broken mind' is my favourite shoot up to date and one that i am quite proud of and i hope to continue to feel this good about my work as i progress. I just need to keep telling myself, 'keep trying, you'll get there'.

This photograph below was a trial and error experiment, the clouds background was meant to be a texture of brusheezy but i found it worked better as it is, the rays off light where downloaded as brushes off deviant art & the girl in the photograph was taken by me :).

 

 

About A Book

My Book Arrived !

Yesterday my photo book arrived !, i ordered my book off blurb due to a recommendation. My book is a 18x18 cm soft cover, with a premium paper lustre finish the minimum amount of pages is 20, so i had to edit a few more photographs before i could fill my book. When it arrived it was very well packaged and only took about 4 days to get here (i think), it cost me £15.69 all together which i thought was very good for the quality of the book. Some of my photographs where quite dark on screen but light enough to make out what the picture was, but when printed in my book they are a little too dark, so if i was to make another book and the photographs are dark i will lighten them up for printing. Apart from that i love my book ! and i would defiantly recommend Blurb to anyone. These photo's of the book where taken on my phone so excuse the terrible quality

Skipton Horse Trials

Skipton Horse Trials

Yesterday was the Skipton Horse Trials, which i was excited to go to. The weather on the way there was horrible so i was a little worried about how my photographs where going to turn out (and my camera getting wet !). When we got there it was still very wet so we sat in the car and waited for it to go off, which it did..eventually. I know these photographs won't be the best horse photographs you will ever see but I'm still practising and seeing what works and what doesn't, so here is a few, enjoy.