Anoushka Lakhani - Graduation

Yesterday we had a wonderful surprise visit from my cousins and aunt and uncle, they came up to visit my grandparents who have been a bit under the weather in the past few months so whenever we have a visit from family it always leaves them with a big smile on their faces!

My cousin, Anoushka, recently graduated (with a First Class Honours) and I really wanted to capture some pictures of her graduating but the ceremony was all the way up in Bath, luckily when she came yesterday she brought her graduation gown and dress with her, so obviously I got my camera ready and we went out to shoot some pictures.

We also captured some beautiful family pictures to celebrate both my parents and aunt and uncle's wedding anniversary! We are all very proud of her and wish her all the best in what ever she chooses to do next!  

Here is a sneak peak of what we captured yesterday! 

More pictures coming soon!

Portrait of Scrappy

This is my second image from the project, looking at the life of my dogs.

Scrappy has always been a little bit bigger than Scruffy and is a bit more stubborn but his Achilles Heel has always been food!

Getting him to pose was one of the most difficult things I've ever had to do on a portrait session because he just would not listen!

The only way I could direct him was to bribe him with food!

Anyway, I fired of a few frames, found I was a little overexposed and then refined my settings and captured this.

Captured with Canon 7D with 70-200mm f4 

at 1/100 f5.6 ISO 100

 I'm really happy with this image, it really captures Scrappy's personality, you can't see it in the frame but I'm actually holding a little treat for him to catch his attention.

Stay tuned for more pictures!!

Portrait of Scruffy

I've been wanting to try to take some portraits of my dogs, We've had them for over 10 years now and I haven't taken pictures of them properly, so I decided by the end of the year I'm going to produce a series of images capturing their lifestyle, their habits, in an attempt to depict their personality through the images.

This is the first picture from that body of work, it was a real struggle getting him to look into my lens, I had a box of treats at hand in an attempt to draw his interest back to the camera. However I found the pictures of him looking off into the distance work far better than the ones of him looking into the lens.

I shot the picture in colour and really liked it that way, then I looked at the tones and the lighting and thought it would look pretty good in black and white.

I'm not a big fan of turning colour photos black and white, simply because we see in colour and a lot of my work depicts the mood and the atmosphere my subject, however the lighting on Scruffy interested me and made me curious as to how it would look in black and white.

I'd be interested to know what you think, Do you like the lighting?

Does it work in black and white?

To see the colour version head over to My 500px Portfolio