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 !!

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.