How would you describe yourself in three sentences?
Hmm, I’m very honest, but not like blunt honest, more like ‘Oopps, you’ve just given me too much change honest, and I can not lie’. I’m loyal, a people pleaser, I always try to see the best in everyone and I am huge daydreamer.
What sparked your passion for Photography?
I have always taken photos since a child, I love looking at them. I used to love the trip into town to go and collect my photos, then looking through them and creating photo albums. I love looking at old photo albums too. I lusted for ages wanting a big proper camera and always on my bucket list list of things to do and see, is always written ‘learn how to take amazing pictures’. I got my camera and then not long after discovered CM.
What’s in your camera bag?
My Camera, Canon 600d, it’s 18-55mm Kit lens, and a 50mm 1.8 lens. Hmm it’s quite a little list, must get working on adding to that!
What Camera/Equipment did you start out with?
I’ve only had point and shoot camera’s before this, first film ones, then digital. I actually still have all the cameras I have ever owned, I cannot bear to throw them away.
If you could only use one lens an entire session which one would you choose and why?
I guess my 50mm lens, I don’t really like my kit lens a huge amount, I would love a 35mm lens though, if I had one of those then I would definitely choose that one.
What advice would you give your “just starting out self”?
Practice, Practice and Practice....
Biggest “Wow, what was I thinking?!” edit fiasco?
Maybe not editing, I used to have a really old version of PSE but all i could do was correct red eye. Now i have Lightroom and new PSE so hopefully I won’t have too many bad ones.
Current Photog crush?
Ginger Unzueta, I adore every picture she takes and Sue Bryce I find her incredibly inspirational too.
If you could photograph absolutely anyone who would it be dead or alive?
I wish both my nan’s were still alive, so I could photograph them, I would of love to do a photograph of generations with them, my mum, me and my sister and my 2 girls. Famous people maybe someone really cool like Audrey Hepburn or James Dean.
Describe your style in 3 words.
Well I would like it to be.... Happy, light, real.
Best photography purchase? Worst?
My camera.... Not worst but I have been a bit addicted to buying breakouts from the Clickin Mom’s store then not really doing anything with them.
Any Photography related Goals for 2013?
Ha, to catch up and keep up with my 365 and maybe take another workshop but I’m really not sure which one though.
What’s your most recent “Ah HA!” moment related to photography?
Well apart from learning to shoot manually and understand the exposure triangle, DoF and all the other things we learnt in BDBCE. I think the next ah-ha moment is that you can completely transform an image from nothing to something by editing.
Biggest Photography related insecurity?
That I’ll be rubbish forever, I might never find my ‘style’, oh and posting pictures for cc.
What kind of Camera bag do you rock?
A crappy black one, that is well padded (in-case kids decide to play with it) which is a complete pain in the backside to take out with me. Actually this is probably my worst purchase!!
What do you think your next photography related investment will
be?
Erm, maybe a workshop, if I can stop making impulse purchases of breakouts. I dream that I win some lottery money though, then it would be a ton of workshops, new camera and a whole bunch of lenses.
If you had to recommend ONE thing that a photographer needs, what would that be?
1) To love taking photo’s.
2) Patience because it takes time to learn.
What would you say your biggest muse is?
Probably the photographers I admire and my crazy little girls, because they are just crazy.
Are you in or plan to be in business?
I daydream about being in business. I’m not sure if I will though, maybe but if I did I’d like it to kind of start organically rather than planning to jump in with both feet.
Favourite Color
Always Blue
Favourite food or recent yummy recipe? (Link?)
Erm where to start, Roast Beef with Yorkshire puddings and loads of veg, Chip Shop chips wrapped in newspaper with loads of salt and vinegar, strawberries, Mr Whippy ‘Ice Cream Van’ Ice Cream.
Biggest guilty pleasure:
Pinterest, Clickin Mom’s, Facebook, Chocolate.
Pet Peeve:
Current favourite song?
Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines
Daft Punk – Get Lucky
Naughty Boy – La La La
What did you want to be when you grew up?
To work with Horses, be a riding teacher.
One thing no one knows about you is:
I’m fascinated with finding my true self. I love Psychology and in-sight into different ways of life.
Pc or Mac:
Laptop – not Mac
Lightroom Or Photoshop:
Lightroom and Photoshop Elements which I’ve loaded but never opened up.
If you could travel anywhere it would be:
Oh gosh If I could go back to Thailand I’d be a happy girl or Maldives, Dubai... I will 100% go to Australia one day, other places I would love to travel to include Cambodia, Vietnam, Bali, I will do an African safari too, San Francisco, Hawaii would be cool too. Oh there’s just too many places to choose from!
Favourite photo ever taken
I love ones I took prior to acquiring new found knowledge of how to take a photo, I think maybe sometimes they are getting worse because I'm thinking so much but since I have been learning to shot manually I think maybe my daughter being Princess Kate or her goofing around in my sunglasses.
Raw or Jpeg:
Jpeg – Raw nearly ate up my whole hard drive, so until I get an external one, Its little old Jpeg.
Favourite Quote:
A Man’s home is his Castle, until the Queen comes home! I love that one!!!
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory – Dr Seuss
Don’t be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams – Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Most valued material possession:
My Jewellery, my photo’s, my Iphone – that’s a bad one isn’t it?
Coffee or Tea:
Oh yuck, I hate both, I can’t stand looking at them or the smell, nothing!
If you could photograph a Celebrity who would it be?
Will I Am – he is pretty quirky, Robin Thicke, yeah he would have to be close to naked! oh Brad Pitt too, definitely back in the days of Fight Club, Johnny Depp, no words need to be said, he is just crazy cool, swoon!
***And because I LOVE Inside The Actor’s Studio:
What is your favorite word?
Erm I try to mix them up a bit, lovely could be a bit over used though.
What is your least favorite word?
Nasty swear words or racist ones.
What turns you on?
Cheekiness
What turns you off?
Arrogance
What sound do you love?
My children laughing and saying I love you.
What sound do you hate?
grinding teeth
What is your favorite curse word?
Bloody, but I like ‘for fuck’s sake’ too and bollocks has some Oomph when needed.
What profession other than yours (and photographer) would you like to attempt?
I’m driven by learning new things, so I have idea that if I'm a little old lady who has lived a full life doing a little of this and that I’d be happy, but it is so expensive to keep trying out new stuff, so I just dream about it. Psychologist, interior designer, boutique owner, pub/restaurant, wedding event organizer party planner.
What profession would you not like to do?
Undertaker
If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?
Welcome, your loved ones are just inside.
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