10 things new photographers may not know 1/10

On December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 By Adrian DayIn Adrian Day, beauty, camera basics, camera settings, cars, editing, fashion, flash, Gel shoots, Instagram, nikon to sony, photographerLeave a comment

Looking or asking about camera setting!

We have all done it! It’s a learning curve!

Now you may not think this is a stupid thing to do! In theory it’s not! But what new photographers don’t realise unlike photographers who have been shooting for say five years is,

Unless you’re shooting at the same photoshoot, at the same time with the same lens and camera mixed with the same lighting

Reading or asking for camera settings are pretty much worthless!

I’ve watched many of hours from amazing photographers showing their amazing images, showing the settings that come with the finished image.

Now this can also be a bonus if your looking at the bokeh or amount of grain in the shot but that’s evident from looking at any image!

Once again so much about photography is about the moment and working with what we have! Be that the location or the model as much as the gear used!

Most new photographers done understand that what works for Sony users differ from that of canon or Nikon for instance !

Also it could be that one user is using a full frame camera and ones using a crop sensor !

All the above would result in less light or a difference in quality, and so many other variations from they think they will get from looking at the setting other photographers have posted with their images

In conclusion, the best things to take away from seeing others work and setting is to see the benefits of what you can get if you mix those setting with the right lighting,

And then look at each of the following !

Look at the eyes to see what lights modifiers and reflectors have been used.
Look at the shadows to see where the light is coming from up down left right so on.
Look at the background is is in focus or out of focus this will tell you why they have used the settings if there is bokeh or depth of field then the setting would be 1.4 – 2.8 … if it’s in focus this could mean that the lens has been set to f6.3 up.
Has any light been used at all or is it just natural lighting
Then if you try shooting you can pick parts and set your camera to help replicate what your taking . Set camera for back ground darkness and depth of field .. bring in subject and then add light to light the subject!

Christmas is coming let’s up our game – new images and December deals

On December 7, 2020December 7, 2020 By Adrian DayIn Adrian Day, beauty, fashion, Instagram, Instagram marketing, male model, photographerLeave a comment

Beautiful images of Alice, and though Christmas is coming. We are not slowing down on our work flow!

In fact we are currently taking more booking per day than we have before!

As you can tell these image speak for themselves! Soft beautiful and constant! We love our style and many other do too!

This week we have getting to grips with our beauty shots with Alice

Sometimes a personal gift for the Christmas season is perfect for a family member like our mums and dads who want that latest photo of their beautiful daughter or dapper son!

Big deals now live for the Christmas season!

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Insta-post sleeping beauty

On November 23, 2020November 23, 2020 By Adrian DayIn Adrian Day, beauty, editing, fashion, Gel boudoir, Gel shoots, Instagram, Instagram marketing, instapost, photographer, togblogLeave a comment

New post alert! New post alert!

We are now going to be posting short posts sharing our latest uploads to our main Instagram account !

Follow either this blog or our Instagram to be first to see our new work! We have some stunning images with amazing models well worth following liking and sharing!

Click below to see what you’re missing !

SLEEPING BEAUTY ON INSTAGRAM

Portraits – location boudoir & beauty

On November 17, 2020 By Adrian DayIn Adrian Day, Artist, beauty, editing, Gel boudoir, Instagram, photographerLeave a comment

This weeks it’s been about looking back at some of the images Ive taken and not actually used !

There are a number of reasons as photographers we keep a back stock of images that we have taken !

Not only to document what we are creating day to day or year to year!

But it’s great to actually take those images and bring them into the present day!

Now this might sound strange! But when we take these shots as photographers we are at a level that’s constantly changing ! We are always progressing and learning new things from styles to edits to poses!

It’s great from time time to time to take a day to look through you back stock and try what we have learnt to see if we can make something extra special from those files we put aside for a rainy day!

This week I signed up to a site for learning new things from lighting and editing to posing! And I feel I’ve learnt a thing or three !

So I got out the laptop and the hard drives and picked out a few images I’ve not yet edited!

To see the bigger pictures check out our Instagram page! You will see that there is a mix of edits ! That definitely captivate !

Below are a few thumbnails of what’s been posted!

What have I been upto this week! At Adrian Day Photography

On November 13, 2020November 13, 2020 By Adrian DayIn Adrian Day, beauty, editing, etsy, fashion, Instagram, Instagram marketing, photographer, pinterest, wedding dresses, weddingsLeave a comment

Birthday week for me! It’s coming round to that time of year again ! Another year older for me and another year of being a photographer!

I’ve now been into photography twenty eight years! Wow how time has gone so fast!

I’ve not been a professional photographer all that time as I was still at school a good part of that and I took some time out before I come back to the art so now it’s been a little over 20 years picking up a camera !

Do you know what? There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t like photography! I honestly love what I do and enjoy everything about it! Even those times when I didn’t quite get the shot I was expecting! or that pose that just didn’t hit focus !

This week I’ve had a lot going on! Looking through where I have been and evaluating where I’m heading! What I’ve yet to accomplish and what I’ve already accomplished!

I’ve managed to get my work in places I didn’t think possibly on the streets of London and magazines that span the globe! I’ve also worked with amazing clients models and gained some fantastic friends along the way!

I’ve been lucky enough to use some great products cameras and locations that I’ve captured beautiful images I never thought I would create!

This lockdown has given me ideas and thoughts that have perplexed me! But also has shown me that even in the times we are working in! There is no reason we can’t keep an open mind and still be creative!

We are only held back by our imagination and today world doesn’t have to stop in the real world but the World Wide Web can open up endless possibilities!

So this week I’ve been busy !

Created and Etsy store.
Created a new dot com for Adrian Day photography.
Created a social media shop on my pages
Edited a number of images that I’ve revamped to today’s style.
took on E-learning ! (Yes I’ve been a photographer for 20 years but times change and it’s time to go with it!)
Also uploaded a number of images and links to Pinterest so people can see and maybe grow and get inspiration from my work!.

See now the view I have is that I’ve been waiting to long to do all the above and thinking that things will change!

Change only comes from doing something about what you want and need every single day! We can’t expect things to get better by doing the same thing every single day!

Okay guys and girls here are a few links for you to check out ! this is some of what I’ve been creating this week! Please if you like something show it some love ! Comment follow like it’s amazing to have your input and connecting with amazing people

Boudoir with kayleigh

Please let me know on here also if you like my posts so I know if I’m doing something right ! And hey it will be good to chat!

Jade on locations

Boudoir with kayleigh.

Thanks for taking the time to read this blog post! And keeps watching the how I got the shot post is running a little late but it’s coming ! Just want to get it right !

Business is first and foremost about making others happy

On October 1, 2020 By Adrian DayIn Adrian Day, Artist, beauty, business card, camera basics, camera settings, cars, fashion, flash, Gel boudoir, Gel shoots, Instagram, Instagram marketing, lighting creative, nikon to sony, photographer, pinterest, sale, sony A7, togblog, weddingsLeave a comment

We get into business to pay the bills and to create something for our future!

This is true to a stage! What we don’t think about is that what we do ultimately makes others happy!

It’s something I’ve just found out. The bigger picture is that for 99% of businesses is that it’s ultimately making our customers or consumers happy.

Think about it like this, a baker makes cakes and you buy them to make your belly happy and that makes you feel good as the consumer but the baker is happy too because he is doing what he loves

Builder build a house with out thinking that what they’re doing is potentially making a house that will become a home for a family to grow and live happy ever after!

It’s the same being a photographer, though we capture images and we love what we do.. we are doing it to make others happy capturing your big day or taking that portrait of your grandmother who you love and want to always remember. It’s about making you happy!

It’s great that we can do what we love, while making a living yet at the same time making someone else happy!

I love that feeling of making others around me happy so remember everyone’s out to make you happy! Even when you don’t know it and take it for granted

I truly hope that what I do makes those who see it very happy and that it puts a smile on someone’s face! Here are a few images that I really hope makes you smile.

New times make for new ways to run a Photography business

On September 21, 2020September 22, 2020 By Adrian DayIn Adrian Day, beauty, fashion, Instagram, male model, photographerLeave a comment

‘Lockdown’ we have all be hit in some way shape or form, by this hard hitting restriction.

Businesses, life in general has had to change! And we have been left with no other choice, but to change with the times.

Since this all started and the world was hit with lockdown, the photography industry has really taken a hit. Not being able to get your subject infront of the camera

Weather it’s a simple portrait or a wedding we can’t be in close proximity, though we have found ways to still do some forms of photography. The way it’s been done has be much more virtual than we would like.

I’ve personally found it so hard not being able to get clients in front of me. It’s hot my business very hard and not just that hit my creative side too!

I have been pretty lucky that I’ve had enough back stock of images to keep me socially active (social media busy)

Just as we have started to get back to business it’s looking like there will be further restrictions to business! And this will most definitely include photographers.

As photographers we we have to change with the times. Every day can be different and that’s with out the world being on lockdown. Times are hard for everyone. And we are all facing life changing actions.

In my next post I will be posting 5 tips to keeping a little business flowing in while we are unable to shoot! And to help keep our creative side going .

Please join me on my covid-19 lockdown journey ! By following my social media pages and this blog ! There will be a vlog coming soon too! Let’s all help each other in these dark business times!

I’ve added a few of the latest images to grace the social pages and the editing room below!

I really hope that I see a little of my following commenting and liking what I post! I always try to do the same in return.

Also listed here are the links to Instagram 1 Instagram 2 and Facebook pages.

I wish you all the very best of health and hope that you manage to keep going if you’re running a business. As I say images below! Show them some love! By clicking on the images to see the social posts.

Model jack Howe – Photographer Adrian Day

Model Vineta L – Photographer Adrian Day

Model Amber Reed – Photographer Adrian Day

A few new Black and white images from shoots Adrian Day Photography

On May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 By Adrian DayIn Adrian Day, Artist, beauty, business card, camera basics, fashion, flash, Gel boudoir, Gel shoots, Instagram, Instagram marketingLeave a comment

Love these images… it’s amazing what a desaturated image can look like. and really change the whole look of an image.

You may think you have the image you want in colour but until you have at least tried to see what a monochrome version of your looks like don’t take it for granted it can show all the imperfections or even make that image pop !

Is Instagram dead? – has it lost the plot and put its self in quarantine!

On May 7, 2020 By Adrian DayIn Adrian Day, Artist, beauty, business card, camera basics, camera settings, fashion, flash, Gel boudoir, Gel shoots, Instagram, Instagram marketing, lighting creative, male model, new, nikon to sony, photographer, pinterest, sale, sony A7, strobes, Uncategorized, YouTubeLeave a comment

I’ve been using Instagram for years… pretty much from day one…

It’s was great watching all the people posting amazing images and showing of what they was doing in a way that no other site had been doing.

Images got likes and each person had its real following in its own style, niche..

Everyone had a voice, everyone could be just who they wanted to be. okay there was a few restrictions and Instagram kept an eye on the naughty side.

As the years have gone on it’s become restrictive in ways that we don’t realise. We only don’t realise this because Instagram has taken it up-on it’s self to use it’s algorithm to put pay to getting seen in any way shape or form unless instagram feels you deserve it. or that you tick ever box it want you to.

Over the last few weeks I’ve been looking into where and what’s best to get yourself and images seen and noticed. Paid or free.

It’s looking like social media is now making it more like antisocial media! It’s killing its self off by doing all it can to so called be the best! Why if a site calls its self social would you stop people for doing exactly that.

I’ve tried everything to get a following used a number of different pages even posted images that have on other sites got tens of thousands of views and like yet on social media got just under 100 views and maybe 30 likes.

This to me isn’t worth my investment at all. I’ve paid for and done free posts and got nothing in return.

To me it’s seems that a number of people are coming away from the platforms and putting the money into their own websites and posting the work right to the bourses mouth! And getting so much more ! For way less.

A few weeks back I posted to Pinterest! From my website now my website is a free WordPress and my Pinterest is free.

In one seven day period I had over 60k of views and a large number of saves and like. And my views and comments to my website went from 10 to 100 per day!

It’s honestly a no brainier when you’re getting something for free and the numbers are showing for them self what’s happening . It’s only time before everyone goes it alone and walks away from so called social media !

This is just my opinion but try it your self and if you don’t see a difference let me know.

I’m sure in a day of media being a sales point that we need to find our best format or medium to get ourselves out there! It’s only smart business that we look out for ourself and our really followers and clients

Question is do you think it’s dead? What have you found that works for you? I’m always open to suggestions !