Tara & Caylee

I first photographed Tara when he was eight months pregnant. We wrapped her in a beautiful piece of fabric and the resulting images were stunning. A few days later she gave birth to her beautiful baby girl. I also had the pleasure of photographing her daughter, Caylee, when she was very new to the world and now at seven and a half months she is just delightful.

We dressed Caylee up in a fairy outfit and had some fun with the camera. For Caylee it was more fun trying to eat the skirt and very challenging for me trying to get a shot where she didn't have a worried look on her face (which was often). I think we ended up with a great set of images. Maybe next time I get to photograph Caylee she will be up and walking around.

Family time

I had the pleasure of photographing this family a week ago.

Arabella

Photographing young children is always a challenge but Arabella was the perfect model!

Tara's beautiful baby girl

Caylee

Burlesque

One of the things I would like to do more of is pin-up type photography. I love the vintage look of pin-up and I enjoy photographing burlesque beauties. I am lucky in that I have some gorgeous women willing to let me photograph them.

So I hired a hall for an all day shoot. The plan was set and everything came together beautifully - that was until we started shooting. The lights malfunctioned initially and I had some stressful moments trying to overcome the problem. I managed for do a macguyver fix while my husband headed off to the techie store for the real fix.

I had five beautiful models for the day and each had a couple of changes during the shoot. I now have about a thousand images to work through and process but I can tell you that it is almost as much fun doing the processing as it was doing the shooting. They were amazing to photograph and I loved every minute of it.

Two weeks to go...

Trash the Dress Workshop - part 3

Jess

Bex

Clare

Clare

Trash the Dress Workshop - part 2

Bex

Clare

Bex

Sandra

Bex

Trash the Dress Workshop - part 1

Amy

Bex

Sandra

Mary

Jess

Emily

 

Learning New Skills

Some time ago I purchased a chroma green background for use for some of my portrait shots. The plan was to shoot using the green screen and then move the subjects into different backgrounds easily. In theory it sounds easy but I have since learnt that it is not. Firstly the background needs to be lit correctly to create distance between the subject and the background. I failed to do this on my first attempt due to lact of space and at the time I really didn't give it much thought. The outcome was a lot of stunning images of some beautiful ladies that all had a green reflection through them that I couldn't separate. Most frustrating.

I hate to fail at anything and these photos really bugged me. So I have been busy searching for way to fix them without needing a diploma or degree to achieve the desired outcome. I am not totally there yet but as you can see from these two images, I think I am well on the way. There is still a hint of green in the book but otherwise I think I have acceptable images. It helps having such a beautiful model!

Miss La Belle - www.misslabelle.com

Miss La Belle - www.misslabelle.com

Taituha Family