Asya Barskaya-LebedI keep telling parents how important it is to have good photographs with their children. After all it’s part of the family history that will be treasured by many generations. It’s not easy to get a good family portrait, as it’s often one of the parents who is taking the photo, hence that parent is …
This week I had a very exciting business portrait session with Aly from Conscious Creators. Aly needed a portrait for her newly launched website, and we wanted to create photographs that would reflect her sunny and inspirational personality. This session was especially memorable for me, as I am a great fun of Mike Dooley, who’s …
May people ask me what to wear for a photo-session outdoors? Here are some guidelines, that would hopefully help you choose what would work best for you. 1. Colours My main piece of advice is to choose clothes without busy patterns. The very best is to have tops of just one solid colour. Your choice …
Last week I have spent a lot of my time in Henley, capturing the 25th Henley Youth Festival. I have photographed 3 school workshops and 3 concerts, one in the Shiplake college and two in the Kempton Theatre. It was a great privilege and pleasure to be part of this wonderful event. The quality of …
Though a lot of my portraits are done in the studio, I do absolutely love Natural Lights Portraits.This afternoon we got together with my lovely friend Tina from Expecting Photography. We both needed some up-to date portraits for business purposes, and we wanted to practice some new techniques for outdoor photography and shae some tricks …
February was such an interesting month – great mixture of kids, families and corporate photography… I also had 2 very exciting sessions for generation portraits of grandparents with the grandchildren. I was very tempted to choose one of the photos from those sessions, but since my clients have not seen them yet, I have decided …
My clients are often surprised how different they can look on the same day, not just with the change of clothes and accessories, but much more with the different lighting techniques used in the studio. Recently I had a session with Kat. Initially she just needed a business portrait for her work intranet site, but …
Would you like to know what’s the most common thing that my clients say to me before the start of the photo shoot? Yes, that’s exactly right – “I hate having my photographs taken” or “I hate the way I look on photographs“. So why is it, that with such incredible advances in technology, photographs …
In January I have done 3 days of training at the Photography Convention in London, and I came back full of new ideas for this year. One of the top new things that I want to do this year, is to offer my clients an opportunity to be photographed in the comfort of their homes. …
During my few days in Moscow I have enjoyed photographing members of my family and friends, but I have to admit that taking photographs outdoors in the winter was not an easy venture. On Sunday the 4th of February Moscow has experienced the largest snowfall in the past 100 years.. we got outside, it looked …