The Cold & Inspiration

So the weather is getting colder and shooting outdoors is not so much fun now is it? It's hard work for the models freezing their butts off and frozen hands don't work so well on the shutter button on my camera so I guess I'll be doing more indoor shoots over the coming few weeks.
I often wonder how many times per week other photographers shoot. I usually shoot about 3 times a week and spend the other days processing what I've shot. Yesterday, Friday, I spent the morning making up a list of about 30 ideas that I have in mind to work on over the coming few months. I'm not sure if I will get to do every one of them or if they will work out at all but I find it helps me inspiration wise......
Have a great weekend........

Brenda Before & After

I promised Brenda a few beauty head shots in return for her letting me do some of my more artistic shots where you cant always see her face. I wanted to do some really clean lines with this one and kept it simple colour wise. I made the hat myself;-)
Have a lovely weekend and happy shooting

Gone with the Birds

When Brenda agreed to model for me in the forest I said that in return I would give her some headshots and some fashion shots. This is a headshot I did for her and when she lets me know which fashion shots she liked out of the shoot I will work on them and upload them here.

I've been so busy lately that my diary is booked up until the begining of January 2012...
That's never happened to me before and not that I'm complaining just a little daunted at the amount of work ahead of me. Also there's a vomiting bug going around the kids in this house and I haven't felt the best yesterday or today which is unusual for me. I cant remember the last time I've been ill so I cant complain........

If there's ever anything you want to know about my photography or how to do something with regards to your own please do ask, I'm only too willing to share info. In fact I've had a few people asking me if I would do another workshop. (I did one in June I think) So to any of my Irish contacts, if you're interested in doing a photoshop workshop some time in the new year do get in touch and if I have the numbers I'll organize one.

Have a lovely weekend :-)

Splash.....

The after is completely changed. I wanted to do the big splash of tears but I thought the jewels which she wore for another shoot would be a bit too much and take away from the splash of tears so I just erased them out.

Model is Ciara and original makeup by Yvonne Maher and hair by Marie Hickey

Before & After ..........

As you can see I've changed the original ever so slightly ;-)

Are Zebras White with Black Stripes or Black with White Stripes

Before I discovered photography I painted all the time. One day I painted a huge zebra and put it on display in a gallery with some of my other work. It sold pretty quickly and for a really good price too so I was delighted. As I liked it so much I had painted another to put on my kitchen wall so I thought as the first one had sold so quickly why not put the one I had painted for myself into the gallery. So I did and again it sold very quickly.
And I'm sure you can see where I'm going from here. Two years later I had painted and sold about 25 Zebras out of three different galleries and I still dont have one on my kitchen wall. While it was great to make money painting then selling the zebras I just wasn't enjoying rolling them out like a conveyer belt item so I stopped painting them, my heart just wasn't in any more.

And that's when I discovered Photography...........