Photography | 2018

Yes I am aware that it's June but I wanted to show the work I did last year.
I am going to post the photography I have done so far in 2019 in a separate blog post so look out for that in the near future!

What a year. In 2018 I really pushed myself to try with my photography shooting as often as I can and networking as much as I can. You may have seen a lot of my work this year as I have been trying to post on my social media and blog as much as I can with full photo sets but it's sort of a tradition that on my blog I do a year round up of my work.

Last year I did it month by month and this year I want to do the same. You will see after I left uni in the summer I did a lot more.

February 

My first shoot of the year started the second month in with a photo shoot day, I did some head shots in the morning with Jasmine and went to shoot in Leeds with Molly. February also came a lot of first's for me, from shooting at night with Ellie to shooting with Reanna who is a professional model and friend of Jas' on a different style of shoot. I even did a Valentines day version of the bath shoot I did with Hannah last year. I also tried something new and did my first ever couples shoot with Molly and her boyfriend as well as make Kendra pose in the freezing cold in front of a random fairground in a car park.

March

March wasn't so busy for me in regards to photography as I spent the whole month filming my short film for my creative media course. I loved this module we were on what I call a team of only me, you could produce anything you wanted and I settled on a short film about Living with Anxiety.

Link to my short film (I got an outstanding first - humble brag)

April 

Kicked of April walking round Headingly in our pyjamas with Hannah, we spontaneously decided that we wanted to do a photo shoot after a month of filming together so that's exactly what we did. I also popped home to Newcastle in April and visited Ellie - I wanted to test myself so I only used the Fuji App in Tesco, this was a choice but I am happy with this shoot. My final shoot in April was once again with Hannah we went to a local park playground and took some images I still love.

May

This was another month I was swallowed by university work, the most important piece of work I did - my dissertation. The topic I chose to focus on was the impact of mental health in cinema, was very interesting but I wouldn't do it again.

June

June brought one of my favourite shoots, one hot summers day Kendra and I felt like doing a photo-shoot - so we did

July

In July I did my first paid shoot with the lovely Becca, we had a lush day out taking some fun pictures, I love how this shoot turned out. Also in July I moved back to Newcastle, finally graduated and moved back home so I finally begged Amy to let me take pictures of her. I am so excited for 2019 summer photo-shoots.

August

In August I put out an urgent request on instagram asking for people to model for me, I always want to shoot and if im not creative I get all sad and weird but luckily I know some great people who were more than up for it! First of all I shot with Jonny in St James Park car park - this shoot was something different for me as I wasn't used to shooting low light and I don't get a lot of experience with Male models. I then shot with Torie and Kelsey, I loved shooting with new people and trying new concepts.

September

 In September I really pushed myself out of my comfort zone and thought F*ck it i'm going to try really hard! I decided I wanted to reach out to models for some trade for picture basis and branch out my skills. I posted some recent work into a Facebook group and managed to arrange some shoots with aspiring models. This can be extremely nerve-racking and honestly its summer of 2019 and it's still not getting easier.
I shot with the beautiful ladies; Naomi, Amber, Becca and Hannah. I also shot with a boy that wasn't Jonny, I know I know it's came as a shock, I had a lovely shoot with Sean. This shoot I smashed my phone and months on im still upset about it.

 October

In October I started my new full time job so for the rest of the year my photography was put on pause. Just before I started my job I met up with a local professional photographer for some advice and some insight into this industry - was super interesting and helpful, she was called Laura very nice woman.
I then went on to work with a company called Tiska where Laura was the main photographer and I did some BTS work.
I also shot with Kelsey once again in October, we went to a park and just made it work.

  December  

I didn't get a chance to shoot in November due to the chaos of my new job but I did do a shoot for my good friend Emma who is trying to grow her personal training business so that was something new and fun to do to round off the year.

In 2018 I really began to push myself to better my skills in both photographing and editing, spending hours researching new techniques to try and reaching out to models. 2019 doesn't know what hit it.