new sessions and confidence to show your own style

WOW. In less than two weeks I've done three photo-sessions and have so many more currently in progress of bookings and thinking up concepts.

I think once you put on the effort for the things you really love to do everything begins to fall into place and I feel so respected as an artist that it gives me confidence to shoot the way I like :)

Today's session was of my Niece that my sister and I had been planning for the last few days. On my sister's first birthday our father took her out to buy a special birthday dress which she has kept all this time :) We dressed little Taylah up in it and placed her in a suitcase I found at an antique store last week for $5.00 (I had originally bought this to use as a prop for another session - Yep, I've started collecting props. Uh oh!!!). She was quite happy to just sit in the suitcase playing with the books, for a little while at least.
Processed in Photoshop using some slight colour correction, lens flair is all natural.



There was a session on the 2nd May with a friend of mine,
Keri, who offered to come pose in front of my lens so I could try out something a little different from my usual style. These were taken in and beside the Botanic Gardens in Adelaide. Due to the low lighting conditions i shot with an ISO of about 800 which added quite a substantial amount of grain, however this, along with the post processing (added textures, colour correction) seems to add a medieval feel to the set. I also thought along the lines of 'the lord of the rings' or something elvish. She did an amazing job (second time I've worked with her) and I can see we are going to be working together alot more in the future.



My sessions with Ree are alwyas so much fun and such a learning curve. She is a natural model and I can always capture her amazingly. This was a rather last minute concept. As I was leaving the house I spotted my mother's fake pears in the kitchen and thought I could use them in some way or another. I remembered before this session that I didnt have too many shots depicting natural greens and really wanted to use this in some way to vary my portfolio. It was a rather dark and rainy day and we shot this in a 15 minute break between rain clouds. I seem to work better under pressure when I am threatened by bad weather or running low on time. We have more planned for the near future so I am going to be busy thinking up some new and unique concepts.