Archive for 'Whenever Sessions'
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So this week is Week 2 of the Brooke Snow Advanced Pro photography course that I’m busy doing, and this week’s assignment was about posing.
Because my family shoot that I had booked for Sunday afternoon was cancelled, I asked my sister to meet me in the veld (same location as last week) for a quick shoot after work today. I’m thrilled with the results.
For my preparation, I compiled a rough pose list as per the instructions… rough because I have a list of inspirational images anyway on Pinterest, so I just looked for a few more to supplement it. That wasn’t new to me, I tend to prepare like that with all my shoots, especially when I’m shooting in an environment that I’m unfamiliar with. No, I don’t look at images from that particular location, but I have a rough idea from my pose list what I’m going to be aiming for.
What also wasn’t new to me, was “working the pose”. I could be better at it though, so this weekend I really worked on that… and it showed in the results of the boudoir shoot I did on Sunday (that you can’t see yet), and with today’s shoot. It made such a difference.
One thing that I LOVED in this week’s tutorials were the posing guides, and Brookes “rules” for posing. I know them instinctively, and I’ve read them… but the videos just hit home, and there were some small adjustments that I made this weekend as a result that’s made a huge difference. I like the images more… and because of that, I really really struggled to only choose 3 for today’s assignment.
So, for today’s assignment results, I kept Elaine in the same spot. She really didn’t move much at all, I just changed where she looked and what she did with her arms and legs. One thing that did change during the shoot was the sun… I was ecstatic when the clouds moved while I was busy and I got the beautiful golden summer light (it was about 5:30pm)
The rest of my favourites from the session can be found in an album on Facebook 
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My first photoshoot for 2012, and what a special one it was!! Karuna and Bei Li have been friends for a number of years, and Bei Li is about to emigrate to New Zealand with her husband… so they decided to have a photoshoot to get proper photos to celebrate their friendship.
I wish Bei Li and her husband safe travels… and all the luck and best wishes for their new adventure
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It’s my parent’s 40th wedding anniversary at the beginning of next month, and to start the celebrations, I did a photoshoot for them yesterday. We were originally going to go to Walter Sisulu gardens for the shoot, but after seeing the forest I used in Mari’s shoot a few weeks ago, my mom asked to have their shoot done at the same place… so we went to Delta Park for the afternoon.
I wanted to take photos of them on a bench… and I spotted this one. It just happened to be up an enormous hill… LOL! We were pooped by the time we got there. And when we drove out, we noticed so many other benches that were much closer 
serves me right for not checking properly first
It was really awesome taking photos of them
Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad
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Mari works with me, and over a year ago said that she wanted to book a shoot with her husband as soon as her braces were removed. So a few days after they were removed, she did just that, and today’s photoshoot was the result. I met them at Delta Park this afternoon, and took them to a spot in a forest that I noticed during my last family photoshoot there. LOVE that my clients will walk up steep hills and across marshy land to get to spots that I think will work )
And while you’re here, don’t forget to vote for my blog in the SA Blog Awards
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Regina contacted me a few weeks ago to book a few shoots… this is the first one (the other planned shoots are very different and you’ll have to wait a few months to see those). She wanted a few corporate-styled portrait photos done for her new blog, and she was quite specific about location. In the end we settled on my favourite little hideaway in Sandton, and because it was so close to work, the shoot was done during our lunch breaks. I love the feel of this place… it’s just so warehousey.
I love the first one… even though it’s not the corporate look she was looking for.
And for the first time in a long time, most of the shoot was done with my 50mm f1.4… I think I fell in love with it again.