City Centre photography

Part of my plan for this year is to extend myself and my photographic ability, and last week I spent a wonderfully creative evening out in the City Centre of Glasgow with my good friend and colleague Stephen Sinclair and our lovely model, Caroline. 

We took some amazing shots of Caroline in and around Merchant City, starting off under the arches of the City Chambers building.

Glasgow is a beautiful city, with some fantastic architecture and the evening lights only emphasise the strong lines of the stonework. Caroline's gorgeous pose looked stunning, creating very sexy lines against the dark grey stonework of the city, giving me some great fashion shots.

We also used this shoot to test some new lights and lighting techniques. Stephen who is my main video camera operator when we are filming weddings, was a great help with the video light and balancing this light with off-camera flash gave us some amazing affects. I think I have created some of my best images during winter weddings in Scotland where shooting in low light is not a choice but a necessity, but a model shoot such as this gives us a great opportunity to experiment, and that we did!

Thank you Caroline and Stephen for being part of this evening and for helping produce some great shots.

For more of my art images stay in touch on www.facebook.com/sandrakeddiephotography and to see more of Stephens film work go to my Vimeo page

2013 starts with an award

At the start of a new year I like to take time to evaluate my business and make those big grown up decisions about where everything is going and how its going to flow for the next 12 months.

Following 6 very succesful years in the business of weddings, I have decided that 2013 is going to be a bit different. I have decided to make this a development year; an interesting, experimental time with lots of variation to extend my skills as a photographer and also the portfolio of my business. 

I am still going to take on a few weddings - I think I would miss those special days too much to give them up completely - but not as many as in the past years, giving myself time to create beautiful things, look after my special customers and to grow as a person and as a business.

Developing art images featuring my clients is something that I love doing and I am certainly going to do more of this, and starting this year with an award is an absoulute bonus for me. This art image, based on a well known Banksy mural, won me a Highly Commended award - the second highest award in the monthly competition. To see more of my Digital Art images for my clients go to Sandra Keddie Photography and if you want some of these great pieces of wall art, featuring You, then hurry along and give me a call...now is your opportunity!

 

Sandra Keddie xx

www.sandrakeddiephotography

Event photography

I love it when I get asked to do some event photography and my client is looking for something different! Each year I photograph Riccardo Scala's Christmas party for fitbodybootcamp Glasgow and this year we were at the Hummingbird - what fabulous premises to photograph at, the options for arty photographs are endless. I took both flash lit formal photographs and also some photojournalistic type photos, both very complimentary to each other and gives the client a wide range of images to choose from.

Riccardo chose a fixed price package, where we take photographs and then publish them on our Facebook site, giving everyone the opportunity to share or tag their low resolution images; Clients always have the option to purchase further high resolution images afterwards.

Packages can be tailored, for example where a client can purchase the reproduction rights on disc giving them access to all the high resolution images for use in company magazines or other print media. It's a great idea for businesses!

See more of this events images here: FBBC pics

Happy New Year!

So the new year has gone past with a flash and we are into February already. My studio has been so busy over the last 2 months and  with many of my brides only choosing their wedding album pictures in December I have been run off my feet designing albums and with processing studio shoots.Not that I am complaining about being busy!  The studio is a refreshing change especially at this time of year when the light is so low outside. I have been doing family sessions, new born baby sessions, product photography and some Fine Art Shoots. It has been so varied, I have just loved it!

My studio was properly completed last year and its taken a while for me to have time to promote it, but its working so well now. It's great to come out of the studio with perfectly lit (award winning!) photos. I have had many comments on how personal and relaxed it feels for clients to be welcomed into a warm and cozy studio . . . I feel it's just how a photographic studio session should be. The great thing about my studio is that it's local to Paisley centre but also only 15 minutes by car from Glasgow city centre or 10 mins by train. We offer a personal pick up service from either Gilmour Street or Hawkhead train station, then 5 minutes to our door where a lovely cup of coffee or a glass of bubbly will be waiting for you. If you come by car, easy parking is available right opposite.

 

When it comes to your shoot, this is only limited by your imagination (or mine if you like), from simple portrait sessions in the studio starting from £25, family sessions indoors or out, newborn baby, children, pets, boudoir  and fine art.

 

Here are 2 newborn baby photos from my studio sessions, but you can see more photos and keep in touch on my facebook page too, where I regularly run special offers.