Baby Photos

Had a little photo shoot with Sophie last week. Can't believe how quickly the time is going. She'll be a year old next month - where has this last year gone to?

Sophie at 8 months.

Had a little photo shoot with Sophie last week. She's now 8 months old. I can't believe how quickly the time has flown by. She's a little darling though and such a happy little girl.
Here are a few shots taken in the conservatory using natural light.She's now sitting up on her own but I had to be careful as she was sitting on a pouffe and liable to lean forward at any minute!! Fortunatley all went to plan !

Broke the Rules !!!

Yes, that's right I broke all my own rules taking these photos!!
My No 1 - I can't remember the last time I used the auto mode ( heaven forbid )
My No 2 - I really don't like photos that have been taken using the on camera flash !
There was only one way to capture these photo in the conditions that I was faced with last Friday.
Molly was competing at the All England Dance Finals. There was
no way that I was going to let the opportunity for a photo pass me by but the conditions were dreadful for photography.
The dressing rooms were down in the dungeons of the Peacock Theatre, so no natural light! and very little artificial light either come to that, unless you classed a couple of spotlights here and there of any use.They were not allowed to come out of the dressing rooms to the communal area in their costumes, there were hundreds of dancers/mothers/teachers milling round everywhere including walking in front of me while I was trying to take the photos. So there was nothing else for it except the auto setting & the flash !!

Re-take of the feet image

On the course last week part of the assignment was to take a photo of feet.
Well my daughter wanted an image of the children with their feet popping out from the end of the bed. I'm sure you've seen images like these as there's a lot of similar compositions all over the web.
When I posted the one I originally took ( see the post before this) I had a few comments on the forum that it was bordering on the morbid ! When I was setting it up in never actually occurred to me what it ended up looking like to be honest. Once someone mentioned it I really found it in some strange way quite funny.Anyhow I decided it wasn't a very good idea after all and re-took them, without the labels this week.
Sian, my daughter has had it blown up and printed to a size of 20x30 to give to her hubby on his birthday tomorrow from the children. I added the text to the original in Photoshop Elements. Took me quite a while to do this as I had no idea what I was doing but it all turned out well in the end.
I think the re-take is a whole lot better than the original with tags on !!
If you click on the image it will give you a clearer view.

Week 3 & 4 of the course.

Well I didn't get on very well in attempting to do week 3 which was titled Stranger Danger ! The assignment was that we had to ask a total stranger if we could photograph them ! The second part of the assignment was to take a profile shot.
I managed the profile shot but not the total stranger - day to day life got in the way !!

Here's my profile shot.
This is Charlie my little grandson who kindly posed for me,deep in thought !

For WEEK 4 the assignment was titled Perfect Mayhem and the requirement was that you took a photo of feet, hands and action, You could upload one of each or three of the same. In addition to this we also had to set a home made photo booth up and let the subject go wild. Again we had to upload our favourite three images.

I decided to do one of each for the first part.
One of my grandson making an excellent job of keeping, not one but four hoopla's on the go.
2nd one is the hand of my baby granddaughter holding on to her mother's finger.
And the third if all their little feet peeping out from under the bedclothes!

For the photo booth part we had two pirates, one protecting the little princess and the other trying to kidnap her with his hooked hand. We also had a rock band. We had such fun taking these photos but I would mention that I really wouldn't wish to be a children's photographer - it's utter mayhem getting them to do things together !!

I took one other one for the action part on Sunday but unfortunately didn't have time to do any more of the assignment, but here's my eldest granddaughter doing a star jump for me.

That's it now the end of another course until the next one ! I do enjoy doing these courses and you learn such a lot from them and it's nice to share & see other peoples photos.

Week 2 of Beautiful People

Week 2 of the course covers " Boutique Babes "
Easier said than done with a 5½ month baby that doesn't sit up yet ! Not much of a choice for poses really in a situation like that.Having said that Sophie was in a very happy mood this morning, she usually is though so there was no problem there.
Although the assignment was for babies, some people don't have suitable models to use so we were allowed to use older children. I attempted a few on Sunday, in the 90deg heat with two girls desperate to get to the water slide that Daddy had put up in the garden - so they had no time for Nanny and her camera !!!
Can't decide which ones to leave out so apologies for such a photo heavy post :)

Beautiful People Portraiture Course

I've joined up to one of Cheryl's Portraiture Courses again this year ( www.feelgoodphotos.co.uk ).
I've done a few of her courses over the last two or three years and they're always so full of info and you learn so much.
This is the first assignment - Touchy/Feely. This assignment covers composition and posing your model in the most flattering way.

At last a post !

I really have been using my camera, honestly I have !
I just don't seem to have the time to upload to two blogs. I try to keep up to date with my scrapbooking one and this one suffers.
I looked after my new little granddaughter yesterday morning while my daughter & son in law took the boys to the cinema.
I thought I would have a little mini photo shoot to pass the time away !
I carried on shooting while she had forty winks, she obviously wasn't that interested in posing !!