Photography Shoot

Hi everyone! And welcome back,

Today I have a blog post for you which I don't tend to do, but I thought that it would be a nice idea, for perhaps some inspiration? Or just for you to have a little look at.
Without further ado, I am going to be telling you what I have planned for the next 2/3 weeks.

I am going to be doing a different photoshoot 3 times in the next 2/3 weeks, which will include some of my closest friends, and (hopefully) my sister. As you are all aware, I love photography, and not just animal/nature photography! I do also like doing portrait work, as there is so much you can do and have fun with it.

My favourite place to do a photo shoot is usually near my house, because there are so many different things you can do, and create amazing backgrounds/ back-drops for your photographs.
This week, one of my best friends (Alice) came over, and as it was such a lovely day, we came up with the idea of doing a photo shoot. We both wanted to wait just before it got dark, so not many people were out walking their dogs.

We found a lovely place to take photographs, to create different moods, and using different lighting.

Here are some of the photographs that were taken:

I know this has been a rather short blog post, but I hope that you have enjoyed!

Thank you for reading x

Amy xx

How I edit my photographs!

Hi everyone!

Welcome back! Hope that you are having an amazing week so far!
Today I am going to be writing to you about how I edit my photographs. As I know that many who are reading this might take some advantage out of this, whether you are starting college and taking photography, same as GCSE if you have decided to take photography, or if you just like photography as more of a hobby!

Hopefully this will be helpful, and will be able to show you how you can get these results just by using a simple method! If you are interested keep on reading x

1. How to create an antique tone:
Before:

this is the photography before I have done anything to it, I sometimes just like to keep the photograph as it is, but sometimes it is nice for change, to boost the contrast or by using a black and white filter or antique filter.

For this image I thought that it would be  a nice idea to give it more of an antique look, as the setting is in a field, and it can change the mood of a picture.

For editing I like to use PicMonkey as it is very easy to use, and gives excellent results, to do this, I go on to the edit button on the top left, and click (which seems simple enough) By clicking on exposure, I boost up the brightness by (8), the highlights (14) the shadows (6) and lastly the contrast (-7)

But this is just to give the picture the right colour! After doing this click apply and your picture will automatically save as it is. 

The next step is by going down 1 (the wand tool) and it will come up with a load of filters to choose from. For this photograph I have used the tool (Dusk) this just alters the mood slightly to give it a more worn out look, I do this to (17%) and thats pretty much all I wanted to do for this photograph!

Here is the finished result 

More of a spooky effect:

Before 

This image is very simple, all I wanted to do was make it look more halloween-y? (if thats even a word), so I didn't do too much for the photograph, so all I did was:

Again, click on exposure, and I boosted the brightness level to 27, this time round I didn't do any highlights, as I thought that it would be too much, so I skipped that part, went on to shadows and only changed to (5) and then contrast to (-41)

And that is all I did for this photograph!

Here is the finished result

And lastly for black and white photography!(My favourite one)

Theres something about black and white photography, which I love, too me it makes the image look old, and sometimes it can look better than a coloured image.

This one is probably the easiest to do, as all you need to do is: 

All I did (on PicMonkey again) was go on to the wand tool, click on black and white and boost the up to 1%, I then went back on to the crop tool and went on exposure, then put the brightness to 2.

Done!

I hope that you have enjoyed this blog post, and if it has helped you, please comment below and like!

Thank you for reading x

Amy xx

First Blog Collab- What I love about Photography

Hello again, Amy here!

Sorry I have not been posting recently, I have been taking many photos, but I still need to upload them, so they will be up in a blog possibly Thursday?

Carrying on, I have recently been on twitter and just wanting to have a nice chat, and I have become really good friends with the lovely Chloe (Mochasuggx), who has just started a blog (TheLifeOfChloella.Blogspot.com ) and we have decided we wanted to do a collab together!

This post is going to be about what I love about photography, and we are also going to be doing another sometime next week, so I will keep you updated!

Anyways! Here are a few reasons why I love photography!

1. It is a way of expressing yourself- for example there is so much to take photographs of, and you can do it whenever, where ever, and it shows what you are capable of and your creative side. If you hadn't known already, my favourite thing to take pictures of are animals (surprise, surprise) and I absolutely love Black and White photography!
These are just a few photographs which I took quite a while back, but are one of my favourites

2. No one will ever take the same photograph- this is another reason to love photography, because no one, no matter how you hard you try, there will never be a photograph, exactly the same. Which makes photography so wonderful!

3. They keep special memories- if you love photography as much as I do, you know how important it is to take photographs on special occassions, because you never know when you are going to need those photographs, or if you are ever going to be able to go to that particular place again. I like to think of it as a visual diary.

4. Doing photoshoots with friends: I adore doing this, pretty much every time one of my friends come round, we do something with photography, even if it is for less than an hour. It is always fun to put on special makeup, and different outfits, going to find the perfect place to take pictures. And creating different atmospheres. For example:

5. Using different filters for you pictures: I am going to be doing another photograph, on how I edit my photographs, as I have been talking about it to some of my friends, and they think that it would be a good idea. I know quite alot of you guys, like to see my photography, as they are always the ones which get more views: is this correct?

Anyways, I hope you have enjoyed this collab, and I will see you next time on my next post!

Thank you for reading <3

Amy xx