No person has the right to rain on your dreams

'No person has the right to rain on your dreams'

Marian Wright Edelman 

I wanted a title that was related to rain without just being 'rain is horrible'. It rained pretty bad while we were out taking photos yesterday. It also meant the light to take them with was pretty much non-existent.

So I've tried to meet Laura before and we didn't have much luck. This time we managed it! We met in Victoria Station in Manchester City Center.

We had A LOT of rain. Every time we went inside to get out of the rain, the sun would come out. It got a little bit annoying. We kept going, the best we could and I think we did OK.

We started by Urbis, the water fountains weren't on though which was a bit of a shame. Would have been nice. We then had quite a think about other locations and ended up round the back streets near Aflecks. Was a bit of a walk.

As I said to Laura, I need to go explore parts of Manchester I haven't been to before for new places to shoot. I could also do with getting a flash gun to be able to shoot better under cover and in the dark (eg, when it rains because winter is coming. It's not going to get any better weather wise)

I had to edit all of the photos and some were blurry on my computer but I think we got a selection of good photos. As usual I preferred the photos I took slightly later, once I had relaxed back into taking photos. Laura was a pleasure to work with. Just a shame the rain cut us a bit short.

I would like to do some winter/wrapped up and snow photos nearer to Christmas when I next work with a model. I don't know when I'll have the chance around work. 

Fingers crossed :D

Take care

Fiona

Blondie

Well it was either 'Blondie' or 'The rain almost ruined my day, again'. I don't know about you guys but I'm kind of sick of rain related titled so I went with the obvious. I was hoping we would avoid the rain but we got rained on a little once. The rain of course means the sky was rather dark so I had to shoot ISO400 and not the normal ISO200 or ISO100. The photos are a little grainier than normal.

The lack of light meant I was shooting free hand at very low setting so some of the photos were blurry and unusable. I had to get the tripod out at one point but I don't like using the tripod because I feel like I don't have complete control of the camera. Overall I think this turned out OK.




(This one above is my favourite photo of today )


 
 This is the first time I've worked with this model (Whose name is the same as my last model!) She was really lovely and she actually taught me a lot. As a photographer I actually can get a lot more say in things than I thought. We talked for ages about which outfit she was going to wear and we tried different things. It was really fun and I loved it!



This is her bargain dress! She got it for less than £7. I for one was pretty impressed.


 
You may notice that I was shooting around the same area as the other photo shoot I did but this time I was trying to take the lead and be more inventive and I really like how some of the photos came out.

It then got really cold and windy and dark so we decided to call it a day.



I've spent a good long time trying to save as many images as possible. The problem of such a blonde model and editing is I have to be careful to not loose too much detail in the hair. I don't want to over do it. I think I managed to do okay. I hope she likes them when she sees them. 
 As I was saying today I hope to get in at least one or two more models before Christmas but my work hours are increase a lot soon for Christmas. I have my fingers crossed.


Fiona

xx

Drops of Rain

Not so much sunshine today.



Lots of rain instead. And because of the looting and destruction in Manchester last night I haven't gone out today. I was going to go to Manchester today with my camera coz it's my day off but the weather didn't really help either. So while I was sat watching tv I decided as it had stopped raining for a bit that I would do some indoor macro photography. So I got a mirror to try and reflect some more light and I wanted to play with the effects that can be used.



Not many images today as I don't have many things to take photos of indoors.





Sorry for the lack of uploads, being busy with work and days off being rainy hasn't helped at all. I'm meeting a model next week and one the week after in Manchester, assuming everything is over with the looting etc. I'm working a 24 hour week this week, 18 hour week next week and a 20hour week the week after so quite busy. Can't wait to get paid on the 19th. I shall be buying a Nikon 55-200mm lens which will hopefully replace my standard kit lens altogether. I don't know when I will next update so you'll all just have to wait and see!



Fiona

xx

It takes two, baby.

What's this? Another update so soon?! My god it is!

Yes, I went out today and took my camera along and I'm really glad I did. I met up with Rachel, we chatted about camera's and wondered round Manchester for like 2 hours just taking photos.



I started my trip at the train station. I've been wanting to take some at the train station for a while. Using the lines. It's not normally something I take photo's of so I'm not fully happy with these ones but I like this one enough.





After meeting up and walking round for an age, we took some founds by Urbis, I never realized how much water and fountains there were back there!











I had a really good day and it was good to get out and about. Job hunt isn't going so great so at least i managed to get out for a bit to take my mind of things

Also, i know this is a terrible photo but I wanna show you what I'm up to next



Yes I am making Mini Origami Stars! This was my very first attempt. Not too bad if I say so myself

Fiona xx