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

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
 xx

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

xx