Who doesn't love a good birthday party??!
My daughter had an invite to her friends party, so I thought i'd grab a few shots whilst there. It was an amazing fun packed 3 hours, and i'm pretty sure everyone who attended (adults included!) were tired by the end!
Friday night I was working in my other job, as a guitarist. My acoustic duo www.hapemusic.co.uk performed for Reading Operatic Society, it was their annual summer ball.
I didn't see any other photographer's there, and I had my camera with me from a portrait shoot earlier in the day so I thought I'd capture some moments for them.
All in all a brilliant night, combining my love for photography and music!
I was contacted a few weeks ago by a new company about a photo shoot for their clothing line.
The brief sounded interesting to me.
Take photos of 5 models, 2 females & 3 males. All of the models would be wearing the unbranded garments, then the companies graphic designer would then apply the artwork to the images during the editing process.
The shoot also had to take place at their location, a lovely big house.
So I took over my complete mobile studio and set up in the kitchen area. Once the lighting was metered I was ready to start.
The shoot went very well. The organisers had prepared a slide show of different poses for the male and female models, this really helped with the work flow.
I look forward to seeing the final images with the artwork added to the garments. I'll be keeping an eye out at www.firetrend.co.uk
Here's a few shots from the day.
A few essentials
My mobile studio all set up
A cropped image straight out of camera.
Bradgate Park is a very popular location in Leicestershire.
I had a shoot booked there on Sunday morning at 10am, even at that time the car park was nearly full! I spotted two groups, one was obviously a fitness/running group and the other was a dog group.. I stopped counting after 40 dogs!
I was booked by Jon to capture some nice in the moment images of his daughter Mia, and try to get her to smile!
The main path that runs all the way through the park was very busy, so we headed to the ruins, near some rocks and to some picnic benches... basically anywhere there was no distracting people!
The hour shoot went very well and lots of nice images were captured, even caught a smile or two ;-)
On Sunday 1st November 2015 myself, wife & daughter went for a walk around Knighton Park.
I checked the time for local sunset and as it was getting pretty close I figured i'd take the Camera along. Truth be told, I only took 5 photos that evening as I was enjoying the walk.
Our local paper the Leicester Mercury had an 'Autumn in Colour' page on their website, with a link asking viewers to submit their photo's. So I thought why not, on the Friday morning I emailed a copy in to them. Thirty minutes later an editor from the paper gave me a call, asking for some more information on it and if it was ok to publish it.. in the paper!!
Of course I agreed.
I don't buy the paper that often, hardly at all in fact as most of the content I like they put online.
On the 12th November I purchased the paper randomly, before then i'd been asking family to keep an eye out for it. To my surprise, it was in that edition, what a bizarre coincidence.
I had many amazing comments about this image, and a friend of mine who is also an excellent photographer suggested I have this printed to canvas. It's now hanging on my bedroom wall so I can see it every day.
A local Nursery gave me a call early December, their usual photographer had let them down for their Winter Wonderland event. I was very happy to help out!
The entire 4 hours was spent in Santa’s Grotto, over 100 children were seen by the incredible Father Chrismas! All children received a gift and a printed photo.
