Will and Louise .....

I met a wonderful lady a good few months ago now, called Louise, who won a competition I was running at the time for a discount photo shoot. I went along to meet her and her three children at their grandparent’s house and it was such a lovely photo shoot. They had a wonderful garden for the kids to play in and it was a great place to shoot as it was something personal to Louise and her family. 

I was then asked if I could do a couples shoot for Louise and her partner Will, who have just recently got engaged and I jumped at the chance. We had the date set for months and then the day of the shoot I looked out of my bedroom window to be greeted by the thickest fog!!! I must say I did freak out a little as I have never shot in fog before and this was really my very first shoot that I had worked on with only adults apart from the weddings I have done. 

I am so pleased Louise and Will were still up for the shoot and so I went along to Thorndon Country Park to meet them. We had a stroke of amazing luck as the fog was pretty much gone in that one area and the sun was out to play, spraying rays of sun through the trees that gave us a perfect backdrop and setting for our shoot. 

Here are some of my favourite images from there shoot, they are a wonderful couple who are very much in love. 

I have now started to offer Beloved Session's for 2012 so if you would like any information regarding these please do get in touch karen@klouarts.co.uk orklouphotography@hotmail.com 

 

If your just starting out...............

For a long time, I use to look up photographer's that I admired and that inspired me and I use to ache inside. Why was my photos not as stunning, not as emotionally charged, why do my photos lack those amazing colours and that professional pop. I was hoping it would be as easy as to pop a little pill and then way hey....I am this amazing photographer I hoped and wished to be.

 

Sadly not as easy as that, if anybody does find a pill though please let me know!!!! Hard work and that dreaded work practice is what it takes to become the kind of photographer you inspire to be. I have recently purchased Jasmine Star's very first magazine, she is, for those of you who don't know her, an international wedding photographer and somebody I really look up to. Not just because her photos touch me, but because she is a very open person, and really puts herself out there, you either love her or you hate her but by her own admission, either way is ok. She has also given a huge amount back to the world of photography and those first starting out in the industry. 

 

When I first started out I emailed a ton of photographer's, some in my area and other's all over the country. About 3 of those actually got back to me, and even then I never really got any real advice or help. People are scared of new photographers, scared that they will be better than them, scared that they will steal their ideas and style, scared they will be better at the business side of things, scared they are a threat and will steal clients away. 

 

I spent the last two years trying to find 'my style' worrying so much about why my work does not look like these photographers, that I sort of lost the type of photographer I wanted to be in the first place. Your never going to please everybody but that is ok, everybody love's different forms of art and it would be boring if we were all the time. I wont lie and tell you I have found my style just yet, because if I am honest.... I have not. I am very nearly there though! 

 

So my advice to anybody just starting up is, don't worry about competition or people you look up to, pick that camera up, practice practice practice, shoot anything and everything you can, work on editing as editing is your own personal style, your own stamp on that photo for you to make that little piece of art of your client. 

 

Keep clicking....... K Lou xx 

Libby's 1st Birthday Party

I had the pleasure of being booked to photograph Libby's 1st birthday party, always such a great thing to be asked to capture; a 1st birthday is something you will always want to remember and look back on. Libby had a wonderful time with all of her lovely little friends and family and there was a lot to do with a ball pit, slides, balloons, cake and a giant piano on the floor! Oh to be 1 again :-) 

Below you can see Libby busting some moves once the music started…. 

Here are a little selection of my favourite images of the birthday girl and her friends and family. 

 

1st of December :-)

The 1st of December baby!!!!!!!! Can you tell I am just a little bit excited about Christmas??? Had a little moment this morning when my little darling girl opened the first of her windows on her advent calendar and then proceeded to have a break down because she was not allowed to open anymore!!! Oh the joys of Christmas...........
 
I shot my very last photo shoot at the weekend and I am now taking the month of December off to rest, get my business ready for 2012 and to eat & drink good food. Again I say; oh the joys of Christmas :0)
 
I also turn the big 3-0 this month (yes it has finally happened) and it's really got me thinking the last few weeks. I have spent the last 2 years being behind the camera and capturing lovely memories for other families, and I actually don't have any photos of my own family. I am going to look into getting a family photo shoot booked in for myself in the New Year as I know just how important photos are and I want them so Rose can show her children and then their children and so on.
 
Today is also the first day of my little December project where I will photograph something new every single day for the whole of December. I will be showing you a little bit later what I came up with.
 
Hope your week is going well.....K Lou xx