Photography jobs i have done

Photography Jobs I have done

Jennifer and Martin’s Wedding

May 17^th 2014

I was hired to cover a wedding on the 17^th May 2014 by a couple known as Jennifer and Martin Graham. They approached me and asked if I had ever covered a wedding and asked if I would cover their wedding.

I mentioned that I had never covered a wedding before but would love to give it a go. I asked another photographer I knew if they would assist me and she did.

To start the initial process of the wedding photographs me and the other photographer arranged for the couple to meet up for a formal meeting regarding what they wanted the photographs to look like, basically what they wanted. For example close ups of the dress, flowers, family photographs, couple photographs, wedding venue photographs.

I thought that the initial planning of the process was excellent but I have decided that this is not where I want to go with my photography career. Although it was a wonderful wedding and ceremony it was extremely stressful.

This process has led me down the oath of other directions and I have now officially gone into a different direction with my photographic career. Although it has taught me a lot about the wedding industry, for example expectations, high standard, how it flows, how to take charge, what is expected.

The experience was definitely worth it but I have decided to change my path but the opportunity was amazing and I was grateful that they asked me to cover there wonderful day.

I presented there images on a disk as they were not sure exactly what they were wanting to do with them, but if they want them in an album I will happily do that for them.

18^th August 2014

As a follow up of Jennifer and Marty I was hired again to cover a Photoshoot of them together down at Redcar Beach. 

This was an amazing opportunity again and I could not turn it down. To organise this day we talked face to face over a business meeting and discussed what they were after and how I could portray it to them.

This opportunity gave me the confidence and let me express my photography in something that I felt passionate about. Unlike the wedding I didn’t feel any pressure, I could capture their love and connection. This brief was more open and allowed me to experiment more, giving me more options of displaying and scenery.

This Photoshoot gave me the opportunity to have fun and gain a better understanding of who I am as a photographer. I have had other job since this beach Photoshoot, jobs including another wedding as a photo booth photographer and portrait of a lady’s grad children.

The experience was worth it and it gave me confidence in what I was doing and it enlightened me into a style of photography, more of a documentary style.

Again I presented their images on a cd and a memory card, they wanted to get their photographs printed separately and they did not pay for a pack that included a book, etc. 

 

 Photobooth 2014

A lady called Leigh who I was helping out in her wedding shop hired me. She needed a photographer for a last minute wedding photobooth that she had to put together and I happened to be in her shop at the time and she asked if I would cover it for her. I agreed and attended the wedding.

At first I didn’t know what to do but she briefed me that there was a photobooth and just to take photographs of the guest who were in the photobooth.

It was an interesting opportunity because I had never been asked to cover a photobooth before and it allowed me to practice my photographic skills, I had to improvise because it was a dark space with terrible lighting. But they turned out ok in the end.

Any experience is worth it but I felt a bit uncomfortable through some of it because quite a lot of the guest were drunk and making rude positions but its part of the job so I got on with it.

As I was working for someone she specifically said she wanted the photographs on a disk so that is what I did for her.

The opportunities that have occurred to me through my photography student career has been a pleasure and I have learnt so many new and interesting facts about me as a photographer and new photographic skills.

I have learnt about me

-       My style

-       What I am interested in

-       How to handle clients

-       Plan

-       Organise

Photographic skills

-       Editing/retouching

-       Use a tripod and not free hand for certain photographs

-       Positioning

Doing photography job has enabled me to learn a lot about me as a photographer and what I want to photograph. I am more of a documentary style photographer, focusing on shapes and repeated shapes, colours and so on.