Last week I second shot a wedding on one of the hottest days I can remember. So this weekend, in stark contrast, I shot an engagement session on one of the wettest. Ronise & Sam found me through Facebook, and wanted to shoot before Christmas so their engagement photos could be used on the invitations [...]
When someone wakes up in the morning and decides they want to be a wedding photographer, they usually start by looking at all the “How to be a wedding photographer’ blogs out there, and the oodles of advice that is (and more often isn’t) relevant. A recurring comment from the ‘pros’ is that you must [...]
So this week I turned the ripe old age of &^&RE&* (yeah like I’m going to tell you). Instead of opting for the more traditional sports car or motorbike, I went lens shopping. For the photographer geeks out there I bought a Sigma 85mm f/1.4 DG HSM. For the non-photography geeks; I’ve taken the photos [...]
Inspired by Joe Wigfall, a New York Street Photographer I decided to try my hand at shooting everyday people without looking through the camera. Now as you see from the video, Joe is the master at this, he sees with hands, and this enables him to see everything that’s going on around him. I used [...]
This is just a quick sneak peek. Well really it’s just one photo, but I promise I’ll post more soon. Heading out to Murawai beach, put the call out on Twitter for some models, and Brad a.k.a. @Kiwi_Chatter and Melissa a.k.a @BestNestNZ kindly agreed. Didn’t quite get the sunset I wanted, there was a speck [...]
Firstly, this is a geekly photographer article, so if you’ve no interest in such a thing, feel free to click away, I promise I wont be at all offended. If I had stumbled upon this post and not known what it’s about, I’d probably fall asleep at the keyboard. Ah cool, you’re still with me. [...]
