My Day In Photos -26/09

It was my day off today and to be honest, I didn't feel like doing much. I stayed over at my Fiancée's house and went into Manchester City centre with him so he could go to work and I could go home. This post is more like stuff that happened in photos rather than a photo shoot or something like that, sorry lol





My lunch at Cafe Nero, one of my fave coffee shops. It was the first time I had the soup and I must say it was lush! I was in the mood for something a bit different. Sorry the quality isn't great,some of these were taken with my phone.



My Fiancée bought this little Chocolate bear. It's quite funny to me as I refer to him as my teddy bear because he is big and cuddly as well as having blonde curly hair. He really is like a life sized teddy bear. Anyway the chocolate was lovely :D



I love flower shops. I wish I could buy more flowers to take photos of. When I move out, the place will be filled with them :D
 
 At least at the time of day I was heading home (like 2pm I think) it was nice. The sun was shining. My walk home from the train station is nice on day's like today, otherwise it's horrible lol.
 
 Look who it is! Why it is me! I hate doing self portraits (they always come out blurry for a start lol). I did a bit of shopping today. I have been looking at coloured tights for weeks now. I really wanted to red ones but every time I looked at them, they never had them in my size. Today was different! I got Red, Cobalt Blue (the ones I'm wearing in the photos) and Sky Blue (reduced to 50p!) tights. Very happy. Also I can finally fit in those shorts. I love them so but I haven't worn them out yet. I was too worried my legs were too fat. Still not 100% sure lol

Also my lovely new shoes. I wanted ankle boots but I tried on loads and either they were too pointy and painful or my feet just slid out. I don't normally go for converse style shoes but these were so comfy the moment I put them on. The have lace on the sides and tie with a ribbon. They will go with EVERYTHING. I hope lol.

A cute headband I bought (My hair is annoying me at the moment so trying to find ways of doing stuff with it) 
 Me and my cat :D So have another one of him:
 
Sunbathing while I was taking photos :D

 I also bought a watch because I snapped the strap of mine at work yesterday :( was very annoyed. So I bought the cheapest one I could find so I wouldn't be bothered if I snapped it again. £4 for a watch isn't bad and I do like stars :D Sorry It's not a great blog post but hey! you get to learn a bit more about me :D 
 Fiona
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Mr & Mrs R

The bridesmaids receiving little pearl necklaces as presents.


The Groom and Best man with the rings.

So here are a selection of photos I took at the Wedding on Sunday, in order of when they were taken, it flows better that way I think.

I'll tell you a couple of things first. 1, I had only met the woman who was doing the photography once before (but she is lovely and I will totally be hiring her to mine lol) 2, I had never met the Bride before and 3, said Bride was 6 months pregnant!




The Grooms party including Best Man and Father of the Groom (far right)


The Grooms party including Best Man, Father of the Groom and Father of the Bride.

It is the weirdest thing to be at someone's wedding and not knowing anyone. I had to stay completely focused throughout and safe to say at the end of it I was shattered. We met at 10:30 but the bride wasn't ready for us till 11:30 and we photographed none stop till like 5 when we got to have some food which the party had theirs.


The Groom and Father of the Bride



 I followed Amy (the photographer) round like a puppy, watching her and helping her when needed. She let me take photos from where ever I wanted while she did the main photos. This is why no-one is ever looking at my camera but I like it that way. It feels a bit more natural.









The inside was incredibly dark. So much so that I thought all my photos would be useless. Luckily shooting in Raw turned out to be a bit of a blessing. I was able to modify the images in their purest from so saving the detail.

So once I had done the major edited, I exported out and did the finer details like making the black and white with colour in photoshop.








Bride, Groom and Groom's Mother and Father


The ceremony was inside and we had photos in the bride's room and outside. It rained. Yes another blog post where I mention rain. Even Wrexham can't escape the rain it seems.

















Oh yea, the guy in red is Steve, The ToastMaster. Absolutely a fantastic bloke who we had dinner with. He is lovely, seriously.





Overall it was a very good experience and one I did enjoy. I learned a lot and I hope to apply that in the future. I need to invest in a flashgun, makes indoor photography so much easier without using a camera's regular flash which is horrible!

Dunno when I'll next update

Fiona

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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

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