Posts tagged ‘child portraiture’
Pink in perspective
She”s learnt to say: “Daddy doesn’t like too much pink.” For now I think she actually agrees with me. For now.
Not everything has to be pink
The start of the season
... when all at once I saw a crowd ...
With weddings and several photography workshops approaching—and returning from leading my first photography holiday of the year—we spent a warm and wonderful family day at Fell Foot Park at the southern end of Windermere in the Lake District. Read more…
Huge softbox, massive gold reflector
Is this a softbox, Daddy?
Why you might want to open a photography studio in a farmyard
Last weekend was a bank holiday without a wedding to photograph, so we enjoyed family time (my wife’s emphasis!) and a much lighter than work-a-day camera bag to carry around. I did have a speedlight in the bag, but, after surveying the wonderful lighting conditions in the new “playbarn” at Greenlands Farm Village, I gave it the day off too. Read more…
Photographer makes lots of dough
Who are you calling cupcake?
On Saturday morning, after a frenetic photography fortnight, our daughter talked me into parking the cameras to “Bake bread with Daddy!”
Right now we are in the middle of moving just about everything in the house for a renovation that is finally gathering pace, so the cliché of a cast iron range cooker that usually provides heat for warming the dough was switched off. With flour between our toes and most of the dough back in the cavernous mixing bowl, we wondered where the sticky stuff was going to get the warmth needed to, er, prove itself. That’s when I came over all Ray Mears and Bear Grylls. Why not cover it with clingfilm [Glad Wrap for readers from my wife's side of the family] and put it out on the terrace to bathe in all-too-rare Yorkshire Dales sunshine? That’s what we did. I sold it to the toddler as the dough needing to “have a sleep” before going to work. Whispering and on tip-toes, we retraced our floury footprints into the kitchen.
An hour later and the mix was more than twice its pre-snooze size at which point I had to break the photography embargo for the sake of the Grandparents.
Photo of the day: Mine all Mine
Mine all mine
Fun on Gateshead’s Baltic Mills’ viewing terrace above the Tyne. Strong late afternoon sunlight behind; metered for slightly under-exposed background; filled with camera-mouted SB800; FEC -1.3. Finished with Nik Silver Efex pro.
