It’s always nice to get some photography practice in. Keeps me on my game and also allows me to try new things.  Today I had Lauren, my friend’s daughter, over for a portrait session in my Home Studio.

Training is something all photographers should consider.  Without training, any bad habits we pick up will never be corrected and any recurring errors we make will never be noted.  Also our photography will never progress to the next level.  There are always ways to make things better and having taken up a continuous development course, with multi award-winning photographer Damian McGillicuddy, it really has made me think more about my photography and style.  Todays session was a mix of homework (for my next training session) and trying out some new equipment that I’d bought some time ago – namely coloured gels!

I bought the gels a while ago and I’ve not really had the chance to use them yet – but so wish I had!  The images from todays session turned out fantastic (well I think so) and shows that the development training is already paying dividends in the quality of work I’m producing.

Here are a few favourites from todays session. I hope you like them.

Katie & Lynsey are my two beautiful nieces’.  They enjoy a photoshoot every now and again and they are my perfect practice partners  Katie has even helped on a wedding and she wants to become a photographer so she tells me.  I think that would be great!

Here’s a Home Studio Portraits session that I shot just over a year ago.  I’ll add more as I get to them.

This is Lauren, Holly, Danielle & Amy.  All very beautiful young girls who were  a pleasure to photograph.  I am friends with Lauren’s parents who are always delighted to see me shoot portrait of her and her friends.

All four are best friends and

Making portraits image is always a challenge.  Setting the lights right and making the clients feel at ease is actually quite tough!  But these three brothers seemed initially to feel quite uncomfortable in front of the camera – a very normal reaction.  But within 10 minutes they were enjoying the flow as I took  a number of images of each of them which they thought looked great!

These were being taken as a present for my work mate’s friend and the final framed prints of all three looked really fantastic.

Here’s a few from the session.