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•Family Photograph Utopia
This is the third in my series of articles about choosing the best studio photographer. I speak from experience both as a customer and a teacher of photographic techniques. Having researched your potential studio photographers’ skills in the sphere of composition, you now need to check his/her abilities in the control of colour and light.
Whole books have been written on the subject of colour. Colour has a strong emotional effect on its’ viewer this statement is unequivocal. And that’s where...
•Baby Portrait Love
As discussed in my earlier article, ‘Baby Photography with Magic’, photographs’ can be analyzed by deconstructing the whole into individual elements. The first element to consider is composition. The baby in the photograph needs to be the first element your eye is drawn to initially. Secondly, a good baby photographer will consider what additional compositional elements will add to the portrait. This takes a mixture of skill and experience. A good baby portrait needs to have additional...
•Baby Photography With Magic
I decided to mark Davids' first birthday with a studio baby portrait session. Being the first baby, to thirty something parents, first grandchild two sets of sixty something grandparents there was no shortage of cute baby clothes to dress him in. He’d have looked like a designer baby if it wasn’t for the ever present runny nose babies are prone to. Being permanently sleep deprived I’d not done any research into which photographic studio to use. I simply went to a Hertfordshire based studio that...
•Asian Wedding Chinese Style
Until I was invited to a Chinese wedding I had no idea how different they were to weddings from a western background. My friend Jiao from work had invited our whole team to the ceremony and although her husband is from a Christian background she wanted to include some Chinese rituals.
In Chinese culture they are very family orientated and both families are very much involved from the start for the preparation of the wedding. Jiao had said she was lucky as both parties were happy to be involved...
•Italian Wedding
Although weddings have changed over the years some cultures still like to keep their big day with old rituals and tradition! Italian weddings are one of the cultures that as well as their country they like to keep their weddings traditional. A lot of traditional wedding acts carried out by the Italians are renowned over the world.
The veil that is worn by the bride on her wedding day is one of the traditions that has stemmed back to Italy. The veil suggests that as it covers the bride’s face...
•Asian Wedding Planning
Planning any wedding can be a stressful and disorganised time for anyone but coming from an Indian background I had a lot to take on – I had a grand event to organise. Every Asian wedding I have attended had been very impressive, but I wanted mine to have the wow factor and for people to be talking about my wedding in years to come. So as you can imagine I was putting myself under no pressure (ahem). I wanted my wedding to be one of great memories and I wanted the day to go ahead without any...
•Baby Photography
Having a baby for the first time is an apprehensive but extremely exciting time! I bonded with my baby as soon as I felt her move for the very first time. I promised myself that I would treasure every moment of my daughter’s life would never forget those special moments. It was important for me to ensure all these moments could be documented and I knew there would be too many to count or remember. Before my daughter was born I looked into baby photography. Although I am rather nifty with the...
•Traditional Wedding
Your wedding day should always be one of special memories – not just for the bride and groom but for everyone involved. I had thought about my wedding since I was a little girl, using my Mother’s clothes as props and my neighbour Sanjeev who was a year younger than me.
My husband and I were heavily involved in every intricate detail in the planning of the big day. With my husband being in the internet marketing sector he was able to deal with our suppliers and ensure we got the best deals and...
•The Tummy Tuck Jean Revolution
We all have our favourite clothes. Sometimes clothes have been with us for so long, they acquire sentimental value. Often these items of clothing are our well loved jeans. Or maybe, larger versions of our well loved jeans. My husband has a Superman Tee shirt and frayed jeans he wore when I gave birth to our first child. Obviously he needed to wear the jeans and top for our second! Fifteen years later I was highly relieved when he finally gave into reality and gave the Tee shirt to our super...
•Sofas Keep it Clean
Buying a new sofa can be an exciting time especially when you have brought it in the sale and you have paid half the price. A sofa can be the focal point of your lounge and it can totally change the look. Once you have made the hardest decision of colour and fabric then you will want it to match the other furniture in the room. More importantly it needs to be colour coordinated, as there is nothing worse than a sofa that sticks out like a sore thumb.
Showing off your new sofa to all your...
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