Welcome one and all to my photography blog. I thought I would share my journey from clueless happy snapper to professional photographer with you all. Well you have to live the dream right? Designed to keep me on track, motivated and hopefully be of some interest. I have never kept a diary or journal so this introspection and catalogue of one's thoughts is all new to me, so please bear with me - thanks for visiting!

Kelly :)

Saturday 18 June 2011

Keen enthusiast or amateur photographer?

Hello blog watchers, welcome back. Get ready for the next instalment of my photography learning. After completing the Beginner's course, I was keen for more, so after a week's break signed up for the Intermediate course. This was less focused on how to use the camera but on how to generate ideas for projects and think what direction we wanted our work to go in. Well, my dream is to be a wedding photographer so I know that I am interested in people and life. I love capturing the moment and feeling the emotion evident in an image. This course was great for stretching my creativity and pushing me out of my comfort zone. But alas, the course is over and I am on my own. I need to hunt out another avenue of learning but until then, see what you think of my latest homework efforts;

Intermediate Course

















Jason and Phillippa's wedding 28\05\11

I was also lucky enough to have a friend's wedding towards the end of the second course so I was able to take in my prints and get some feedback from the group and Natasha. I was thrilled to be able to put to use some the techniques I had learnt and feel more confident about taking photographs. Unfortunately, I was so busy with my Bestlady duties that the camera did not get much of a look in and I realised I had the wrong lens on my camera for weddings, as confirmed by the official wedding photoographer who came over to chat to me about my camera!

Still, not bad for my first wedding with my "proper" camera. See what you think, here are some of my favourites;












Thursday 24 March 2011

OK, what's the relationship between aperture and shutter speed again?

Firstly, let me just apologise for the distinct lack of bloggage of late. I could lie and say that I have been extremely busy and have not had the time, but really I have been hibernating! This feels like it has been the longest and coldest winter for a very long time, and there was me thinking that climate change was making things warmer...no such luck. I also had to emerge from the post-holiday depression. You know the mood which usually accompanies one back to work like a big black cloud which hovers menacingly above the newly tanned but stressed back-to-worker. 

 
Don't worry, things have not got that bad! Just one of my shots from "poetry week" from my photography class. What's that? I hear you cry, a class? Yes, I have become a student again (albeit only for one evening a week, but I also have homework!) and it feels great. I love the learning, challenging myself to do something out of my comfort zone and into something amazing. The class is great and the tutor; Natasha is brilliant. I have been out and about with my camera before but as you can see from my previous blogs, I have been struggling to get to grips with the camera's many functions and how to take my camera off auto but still get decent looking images. Don't get me wrong, I still feel like I am stumbling along in the dark but at least now I can see a light up ahead and I am heading towards it. Whoa, that was a deep analogy, let's lighten things up a bit. Want to see some pics from the course? Well, here are a few.
Beginner's Class