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Learning, planning (and socialising!) at the SWPP convention

Posted on: 15th January 2012

I spent a fantastic few days at the SWPP (Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers) convention in London over this past week. On one of the days I attended a boudoir workshop by a fabulous US photographer Joe Cogliandro in a lovely hotel opposite Buckingham Palace. I don’t currently offer this type of photography, but I think it’s really good to do something different once in a while to keep you fresh and inspired! I really enjoyed it and I love the way Joe shoots boudoir. There is nothing tacky about it….it’s all about capturing the woman how she really is and making the shoot (and therefore the images) as authentic as possible. No unnatural posing or heavy retouching. If I did offer boudoir, this is definitely how I would do it! Here are a few of the shots I took on the day. You can see more images that I took on the day here on my Facebook business page. 

I spent the other couple of days attending talks, leafing through gorgeous albums at the trade show and socialising with all of the lovely photographers I have met through Twitter and Facebook over the past few years. I remember the first time I went to this convention 3 years ago, I just stood around on my own like Billy-no-mates wondering how everyone seemed to know each other! But now, thanks to social media, I didn’t stop chatting to people which was lovely. 


I’ve got a really busy month ahead with lots of headshot sessions which start this week and a couple of photography workshops. I also still have lots of family sessions to share from the end of last year so check back soon!

Photos from today’s photography workshop for creative business owners

Posted on: 30th September 2011

We had a great morning at my 2nd photography workshop for creative business owners at The Medicine Garden in Cobham. (you can see how the first workshop went here)


We had a lovely group of creative people attending, ranging from events organisers to gardeners! And what beautiful weather as well so it was perfect for everyone to practice their new backlighting skills!

Here are some of the group’s names and website links, do take a look through as they run some fab businesses! 

Sarah Quiney – Not on the High Street
Jill Anderson – Anderson Landscape Design
Claire Brown – Plantpassion
Heather Grant – Lewis & Grant Parties
Ade Oduyemi - Maximum Inheritance Specialists (although Ade wanted to learn how to take better photos of his fantastic cakes which we sampled this morning!)

The eagle-eyed amongst you will notice there are 8 people in the photos, but only 6 in the list. That’s because I haven’t included the 2 lovely ladies in this list who don’t own their own businesses and were doing the workshop to photograph things around them or their own craftwork.


And there were lots of lovely comments on the feedback forms which is always great to hear:


“…so much ground covered and yet I haven’t been overwhelmed by the technical stuff”
“…the course was pitched at a perfect level…I’m no longer scared of my camera”
“…I have learnt so much in such a short space of time and cannot wait to get practicing!”


Thank you for being such a lovely (and rather lively!) group. I’m looking forward to seeing your homework!


My next workshop for creative business owners is Friday 9th March which you can book here on MakeMe Workshop’s website. I have a number of Photography for Parents workshops before then so please book your place soon before they fill up!