KISS Wedding Photography

Yoga
A yoga teacher, a sunny day, one of our favourite locations and a photoshoot for website and promotional shots.
This sort of work is very interesting, as a photographer you are used to directing a shoot to a certain degree, of course there needs to be a certain amount of freedom and spontinaity, and especially with our weddings and our childrens photography there always is.
But when photographing yogis ( I think this is what they are called) theres another dimension, for a start you have no idea how advanced the positions they can (and want ) to do and of course you can’t direct these, as only they know what they are doing. You can suggest the locations and you choose the angle of the shot and you choose the camera settings, but really the art lies between the client and you. Its a real excercise of working together, two artists working in totally different fields and producing something together, The results were quite incredible.
We have another Yoga shoot coming up in a couple of weeks, this one will be very different as the client wants a different feel to her end photographs, we are very much looking forward to this one too as it will have a slightly more urban feel to some of the images.

Moody Teenagers!
Isnt it amazing how a teenager, who really would rather be left alone, not spoken too and wants to keep adults well at bay can totally transform herself in front of a camera?
We thought this particular shoot would be a tough one after getting the brief from the parents. But it was a bit of a bonding excercise between mother and daughter and hopefully with a nice set of keepsake prints at the end of it all.
Well, we have just done the final edit, and we can honestly say its going to be a tough choice for the parents. The smiling, laughing, posing professionally!!!!!! was not the girl who entered the studio!
It made me think, what does the camera do to people.?
In some cases it can inhibit, this usually doesn’t last, and we manage to loosen up even the shyest ones. In this case it brought out the real, sweet, kind, game for a laugh girl she really is until the dreaded teens crept in! the camera brought out the best and honest side of her. There was no need to act the fed up part that the mates expect to see, gone were the rolling eyes and the permanent pout and a little bit of childhood crept back in. The mother was over the moon and the carefree gift left, dare i say with a slight skip in her walk….bottom line…….SHE LOVED IT!!!!!