Facing My Fears & Life Update | Career

Anyone who is trying to pursue a creative career will know just how difficult and exhausting that can be. The photography/media industry is one of the hardest industries to break into but ya girl is trying and trying hard.

Since completing my degree last summer I moved back home to Newcastle to try and make some money and build my photography portfolio but with that comes facing a lot of fears and pushing myself so far out of my comfort zone I cant even see it. My comfort zone is a dot to me. (That might be a friends reference im not sure I think so)

Since summer of 2018 when I graduated I have really pushed myself hard to try and make this career work for me. I spent 11 months (left like 4 days before a year which is annoying for CV purposes) working in a call centre for a building society - yes I am aware that is the very opposite of what I want to do but ya girl has bills to pay) and I met some AMAZING people there that I will love until the end of time. But during that time I spent weekends and evenings editing, networking and just trying super hard to work in the media.

In order to push my skills and myself I had to branch out from just taking pictures of my friends. Which has been a wonderful and magical experience and I hope to always take pictures of them but in regards to my career I needed to get my name out there.

In order to move forward my next logical step is to reach out to modelling agencies and this has been something I've toyed with for practically the entire year, since I shot with the stunning Reanna back in February. However.... it's scary and im a baby.

With this in mind I decided the next step for me was to reach out to photographers.  The beautiful model Beth Harris recommend I speak to a local photographer called Laura. Who is so nice and talented and really made me feel like I can do anything I want. I met for coffee with her and I learnt more in that hour and a half than I have on my own well.. ever. Laura was then kind enough to let me tag along on one of her studio shoots as I have never had any experience in the studio and I LOVED IT!!

The feeling I had when I walked into the studio, meeting the models, watching Laura shoot, learning about lights and backdrops was "euphoric" if that's the wrong word sorry but it was magical. I left with the feeling of "yes this is what I want to do and I am going to do everything in my power to achieve it" so that's what I've been trying to do.

Since meeting with Laura I joined a Facebook group with local photographers and aspiring models and I have done a couple of photo shoots with new faces from that and I've loved every second. Learning and progressing is something I am thoroughly enjoying.

Thank you to everyone who has helped me get to this point I am truly LOVING MY LIFE, from every person who's ever modelled for me, Beth for helping me with all the behind the scenes, my dad for helping with my portfolio and to all my friends and family who have supported me so far!

I got this!

Soooooo...... I wrote this a few months ago (I have so many blog posts drafts I just forget to post) and well I have very exciting news!!! I have recently got a new job editing clothing items to be published on the website to showcase the products. I have only worked there a couple of weeks and my lord is it difficult. I have basically been taught Photoshop all over again, everything I knew how to do well.. I don't need to do that. It is a very exciting but scary adventure and i'm having a whale of a time.

K peace out, if my new employers somehow read this please don't cringe I am very sorry please don't fire me im having a lovely time.

Classic photo - as you probably guessed I don't like my face.

The Power Of Editing | Photography

Hey there!

I wanted to talk to you today about editing images, I have really pushed myself in 2018 practising editing whenever I can, sat in front of the TV, lying in bed, a spare 10 minutes even testing new apps on the bus to work. Whenever and wherever I could I was editing.

You hear all the time "shooting in raw changes the game" and I am hear to tell you shooting raw changes the game when I finally got the hang of editing raw I couldn't believe my eyes. I could now take a shot I wouldn't look twice at and making a beautiful piece of art. I strongly believe that you need to take a photo you are proud of and takes an element of skill to be a photographer otherwise you're an editor, which is fine but please stop taking my clients.

I wanted to show you some of my favourite before's and afters that I am super proud of from the last few months.You can see the transformation these images take by simply colour grading, alternating the contrast and working the white balance. If you want a full tutorial on how I typically edit my images let me know!

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They may not be extremely drastic changes but learning new ways to edit can really improve your images. At the end of the day its all about being creative and messing about, I have learnt about 0.000001% of the things that are possible on Photoshop alone - practice and see what happens.

Rebecca | Photography

I am so excited to finally show you the shoot I did with Rebecca in 2018, this shoot was like a fun challenge for myself as we didn't have a lot of time to shoot. In total we shot for about an hour and we got some amazing shots!

We headed down to Whitley Bay lighthouse to shoot and it was such a nice day, the sun was shining and the sky was blue - feels like that could never be possible now. We also attempted to shoot in the caravan park but we unfortunately were unable to do that - still think it would be a cool location to shoot.

I am super pleased with how these images turned out. Rebecca and I are looking to shoot again in 2019 so hopefully more content to come!

Hannah Lynn | Photography

I'm just gonna say it - this is most likely, possibly, probably my favourite photo shoot I have ever done. I am so beyond pleased with the images and I find myself going back and editing more images. One day myself and Hannah decided to go and do a photo shoot at a country park near us.

I had bought this mesh netting at the beginning of the year to use for a photo shoot but just never found the right shoot for it, so after carrying it around in my bag for months I decided now is the time. I absolutely adore the images that came from this shoot. The muted colours really add something to the finished images.

I am so excited to show you the full set of images from this shoot!

Torie | Photography

Introducing to you the wonderful Torie Gregory, no not Tori Vega from Victorious but I would have also loved that, this Torie just like Jonny (previous post) reached out to lend me their face in my time of desperation so for that Torie, I thank you.


I really enjoyed this shoot as I was able to bring along Chelsea Carr who if you're a long time reader will remember Amy Carr (Life through a lens) well Chelsea is her sister whom has just started her degree in Photography. It was super cool to be able to bring someone along and "teach them what I know" I say that barely knowing anything. Chelsea brought along her camera and got some amazing shots.

We once again went around the city centre looking for locations that both Chelsea and I wanted to shoot at to ensure we just didn't come out with carbon copies of each other.

I am happy with these photos but I hope to improve from them, with better use of posing and creativity. I feel I focused too much on Chelsea getting good shots that I almost forgot I was shooting as well.

Thank you so much to Torie it was a pleasure.
Look forward to working with you more Chelsea and I miss your sister.