Photography Should Be Fun

Saturday October the 19th I had the pleasure of attending one of good friend Shelton Muller's Wedding workshops. Shelton is a fantastic tutor and brings a lot of knowledge and experience to the workshops. He is a fun loving type of guy and a day with him is always a blast. This workshop had us a wonderful model, Natasha Humble, who just happens to be a very accomplished photographer herself.
Although all photography is about the light, learning to see that light and knowing how to use that light is what good photography is all about.

All the images you see are all natural light, no flash in anyway has been used, this to me is the nicest and most natural looking light for portrait and wedding photography. This first image was just a simple window, a portable backdrop and an Olympus E3 and a 50mm f2 lens. Natural light only.

This second image is a plain green wall. The lighting is simply two wall lights above Natasha.
Having her look up towards those lights has spilled the light onto her face, simple and effective and the wall colour has created a more funky style image. Again shot with the Olympus E3 and 50mm f2 lens.

Having a model that also shoots makes it a little easier to pose her as she already understands light and how to pose for it, but again my mate Shelton certainly knows how to get the best out of her for the workshops.

This last shot is a pretty typical situation we find ourselves shooting in, old architecture, soft light spilling in, and the bride makes for some easy, traditional style shots.

Shots that every bride will always be happy with and the sort of standard images we all need to achieve before getting creative.

I walked away with a number of very good portfolio images that I have added to my ever expanding files. I thank Shelton for a fantastic day, Natasha for being such a great model allowing me to get these images and also my beautiful logo image up top.

Thanks also to Olympus Imaging.