4 weeks later

Yes, that's right it's now the end of the Portraiture Course I've been covering with Cheryl of www.feelgoodphots.com
It's been a busy few weeks and at time I felt that I wasn't going to manage the weekly assignments in time with this last week being the worse one of all. The weather wasn't great and my little girlies had gone off on holiday but the boys stepped in and got an A* for their effort, they were so good bless them.

Some images from week 3 and the finalthe action shots from week 4.

Portraiture 2010 Week 2

This weeks assignment was groups with particular thoughts going into posture/positioning.
I wasn't too sure that I was going to be able to take any photos this week as all my " models" were busy. I was saved at the last minute though when Nick my son in law said he would pop up with the girls on the Thursday morning.....plenty of time we just had to upload the images before midninght on Thursday night. Nothing like leaving something to the last minute !!!

These are the three images I submitted.





Having taken the shots I wanted, Emily then wanted one on her own so I very quickly took this one of her.

Portraiture 2010 Course Week 1

At the moment I'm doing the Portraiture 2010 Course on line run by Cheryl Johnson of FeelGoodphotos.com
I love taking photos of " people" so this course is right up my street.
Week 1 - the assignment was " The Money Shot" so if you're a professional photographer these type of shots are the ones to bring in the money. Cute children are probably top of the list for these shots. Here's a selection of photos I took to fulfill the assignment.

Sports Day 2010

I haven't been very good with this blog at all.I can't seem to find the time to keep two blogs going LOL
I thought I would upload some photos of my grandsons at their sports day yesterday to get it going again.

Christmas Course.

In the run up to Christmas I did an on-line course called the 12 Days of Christmas with Cheryl Johnson of Feel Good Photos...Cheryl UK on UK Scrappers.
To date I've done 5 of her courses and attended a " Bootcamp" retreat with her last May which was a fab week-end.
Anyhow this latest course was free. A very generous gesture from Cheryl. I learnt so much on the course about taking Christmas photos, from adjusting the white balance for indoor photos to getting better Christmas Lights photos and even turning my tree lights to look like stars with a tea strainer!!. Here is a selection of the photos I took over the 12 days.I've still to do some of the assignment and will read up on it and I'll be well prepared for next Christmas !


The heart and the star were taken my two granddaughters with a torch, just like the way they do it at the beginning of " X Factor" and the smilie face was mine. It's not quite so easy as it sounds to take a shot in total darkness waving a torch around trying to get a shape !!!!!