Walt Disney World 2015!

I went to WDW Florida in October last year & had the most amazing time. It is my favourite place to go on holiday to in the entire world!!!

As you can imagine, I took thousands of photographs and only got round recently to editing them, printing them and making a scrapbook of my 3 week holiday.

So as I haven't posted any photos to my blog, I thought it was about time I did today. It's been so hard to choose my favourites to post but here are some I have picked out. :-)

My Trip To Venice

So far, 2016 has been crazy for me. Good crazy though :)

Since graduating, I have been to Florida, got a new job & celebrated my 21st birthday!!

One of my many amazing gifts, was a city break to Venice for three days with my boyfriend! It was the most amazing trip and Venice is so so beautiful. If you haven't been, i would highly recommend a visit. 

I know I haven't blogged in forever, but I am going to start trying more and organise some photoshoots for the weekends now that Summer is almost upon us :)

Here are my favourite snaps of my three days in Venice, shot with my Canon 5D MK ii and 24-105mm lens.

Enjoy <3 

Smoke Trails

This week, my experimentation task at college was to photograph smoke trails. Ideally, doing this in a studio set up with proper lights and a back drop would work best, however I didn't have the time to book up the studio at college so I made my own set up at home.

I used two incense sticks (to make sure the smoke was thick), a black bed sheet for a background, my flashgun & a torch to light the smoke. It took a while to start to get some shots that I was happy with but after a lot of patience and trial & error, I got some final shots that I'm really pleased with. My camera settings for these were: ISO 100, 1/200 (Some 1/160) and f 6.5. I also had my camera on manual focus so that it was easier to focus on the smoke.

In Photoshop I changed the colours of the smoke to make them look more interesting & stand out against the black. Here are my favourites :-)

Catching the Sunrise

My alarm went off at 7am on Saturday morning and I rolled out of bed and went into the garden with my camera to catch the golden sunrise. It was the second time I had got up and photographed a sunrise in my photography life, the time before was when I was in Tunisia so it was much morning and easier to get out of bed!!!

I was trying out a technique for one of my lectures this week, it was to take a overly exposed image or a really underexposed image and recover them in Photoshop using different tools to get an interesting result.

The main rules to remember are to shoot in RAW - so there is more information to recover from & to make sure you remember to over expose or under expose by one or two stops!

I have the before & after results to show you now..