A New Zealand Wedding!

This April I spent two weeks in New Zealand!  I had a fantastic time white water rafting, bungy jumping and jet boating but the highlight was being at my brother in law's wedding!  I filmed and photographed the wedding... quite a tough job!  I wasn't the official photographer but thought what a fantastic opportunity to have a go at getting some great wedding photographs!  It was really hard getting the perfect pictures whilst trying to film the whole day, so I wish I could have got some more creative shots... but I guess one job at a time!

It was a lovely day and hopefully the pictures and video give all the guests and the bride and groom some wonderful memories!

Anna xxx

Baby Photography

So... not only did I get to photograph the beautiful pregnant Anna, 10 weeks later I photographed her gorgeous baby girl!

Pregnancy Shoot

I am interested in photographing all aspects of life and living and I wanted to include this in my second module for my college photography course.  So one of my firends Anna said that I could photograph her at 34 weeks pregnant.

My plan with all my pictures is to end up with some beautiful images that are really lovly to look at.  I thought Anna was the perfect model for this shoot!

Anna xx

AMSTERDAM - Street Photography

I had a fantastic trip to Amsterdam with my husband Steve and had decided to do street photography for my college photography course.

It was quite daunting taking pictures of strangers but the final pictures were worth it!

Here are the results!

Stockport Air Raid Shelter

One of our field trips at Stockport college was to the Air Raid Shelter.  Here we had to practice shooting in very low lighting situations and make interesting images from simple surroundings.  I loved creating moody, mysterious scenes here!

Anna x

Ooops... Where did I go?

I can't believe it... I have just looked at the date of my last post and it says November!!!

I am so amazed at how fast the time has gone!  Christmas, New Year, big projects at work, massive family occasions have made the time fly by!

So in a nutshell the next few pictures will tell you what has been happening!

Anna xxx

A Trip to the Manchester Velodrome

Last week my class from Stockport College and I went to the Manchester Velodrome to try out shooting fast paced action!  We had a chance to try different lenses and lighting.  I used three different lenses - fish eye lens on my 18-55mm lens and a 700-300mm lens.  The zoom lens really came in handy but the technique of photographing moving subject is really difficult - it was a great learning experience and I did come out with a few good shots.

It was good fun and has got me interested to learn more! xx

Shooting People

As well as practicing my photography in my spare time I have been getting the camera out at work also. I work in video production so being able to be creative in other areas is great fun. If there is any type of promotion needed, pictures for news stories or head shots for team members, I will have a go!

We have a new recruitment department at Winning Pitch and so I took some pictures of the new team. I edited them in Photoshop Elements. I enjoy the end product when I take pictures of people, but really need to get out there and do more!

Here is the webpage: http://www.winning-pitch.co.uk/executive_resourcing/meet_the_team/

x

Theme: Looking Up

Here are another couple of photographs from my shoot out in Manchester city centre in October at night. I love taking pictures of tall buildings, getting right under them to exaggerate there height! I edited them in Lightroon - enhancing the colours.

Theme: Blue

This was taken in St. Lucia. I do believe that it is a Frigatebird, which is a type of sea bird. Taken for the theme - Blue.

Theme: Architecture

This week I went out into Manchester with my photography class (from Stockport College) and we practiced shooting in the dark using long exposures and high aperture settings. we used street lighting, lights from windows and cars. So this week the theme is Architecture!

I was quite proud of this shot, it is a really interesting structure and luckily the lighting I ended up with was quite nice. xx

Theme - Alphabet

Hi Everyone,

I have just returned from my honeymoon and it was amazing!

I highly recommend St. Lucia, it is so lush and green and beautiful! Great for photographers. We stayed on the Northwest coast of the island.

My latest theme that I had to shoot for was 'Alphabet' and I found many little scenarios that fit this theme.

The markings on all of these surfaces are obviously some kind of words/names, different languages, communicating something. I thought they were quite interesting.