This delightful, four-legged poser came to Dundonald for his portrait to be entered into the Pet Portrait awards, 2016. This national competition supports the work of Dogs Trust and affords great prizes, with superb canvas prints for prizes at the local level and a whopping £1000 cash prize for the national first prize!
My main studio camera these days is the Nikon Df. Here she is, ready for action before today’s appointments, fitted with a 35-70mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens, with infra-red studio flash trigger, and tethered to the MacBook. 
She’s gorgeous!
Nunsquarter, Kircubbin and St Mary’s RC Church. I’ve often driven along the Portaferry Road and fancied stopping to take some photographs of this imposing building and to date never had the time! I’d photographed a wedding at the other church in the parish, St Joseph’s – and I was a bit disappointed that the bride didn’t opt for St Mary’s.
Nevertheless, driving back towards Newtownards a few days ago I made a point of pausing for a few minutes, just long enough to get some shots of the exterior. (The building was closed.)
I used the Nikon F100 camera with a prime 50mm lens, Ilford Delta 100ISO film, and shot with a shutter speed of 1/125th sec. It was a dull day so the aperture was around f/8 for most of the shots. I also did one shot of the house beside the chapel – presumably a former shop.
Our giant canvas print of Dexter the Dog has arrived and now holds pride of place in the studio viewing area!
This month we had three lovely babies in the National Baby of the Month competition – sponsored by Mothercare and benefiting the David Sheldrick Wildlife Fund. Toddle on over to the competition website and give them your vote.
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What a great day in the studio! My first shoot for the brand-new Pet Portraits Awards, a lovely Mummy and Me Shoot, then a wee family. Today I was shooting with the Nikon Df Camera tethered to an Apple MacBook Air, using my new Smart Shooter 3 app. It’s much easier to use than Nikon’s own transfer programmes, and cuts out one step in the workflow, for the images are already on the computer for processing, so no download after the clients have left.
Here’s my image of the day, Katie and hannah on the swing/dreamcatcher…
Everything you do is a photo opportunity. That’s how history is recorded, and street photography has never been easier, given the powerful cameras that are now built into our mobile phones and smart devices and the apps available to process them.
So, following my own advice – a shopping trip with Janette becomes a snapshot of life in 2016 in Lisburn.
Baby of the Month Voting for February is now open! Toddle on over to
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