outdoorshoot – Lauren Foster Photography

2020, the year the world stood still yet surprisingly the quickest year ever. Autumn has arrived and the colours outdoors are changing. I love Autumn, the air feels cleaner, it’s not too cold nor too warm and the world becomes colourful.

Autumn is always a busy time of the year for me socially and 2020 seen my son turn 16. I still can’t believe I’m a mum to a 16 year old 😂 we celebrated his big day with a family gathering outdoors and a movie night. Happy 16th to my baby boy 🥳

Autumn also seen out the last of my outdoor shoots as the dry days became less. This shoot was captured in the clients gorgeous garden and included mum, dad, daughter and gran. The family were fantastic and we had some fun and laughs throughout, even got a postman involved 😂 (needs must). Obviously I’ve included a few images from the day, a good end to my photography year.

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With the schools returning after five months off and some schools unable to accommodate a school photographer, gave me an opportunity to capture a few school images.

Now… under normal circumstances school shoots are pretty straight forward, mums want nice tidy images shot within the studio. Sounds simple enough doesn’t it? Well… I don’t have the use of a studio and unable to enter anyone’s home under government guidelines meant it had to be carried out, outdoors.

Don’t get me wrong, I definitely had my doubts regarding all the things that could go wrong using studio equipment outside, but it was worth a try. I also had to work in a safe way for both myself and the client, keeping a 2 metre social distance, wearing a mask where necessary and cleaning hands and equipment before and after the shoot. I’ve included some behind the scene pictures of the setup that show how I achieved my final images, and the final results. This shoot was for the McCluskey girls, Caoimhe and Madelyn.

I was happy with the result and the girls mum was over the moon. Always nice when everything works out ☺️ “happy client, happy photographer”. I was asked to do another two school shoots because that one went so well and both clients were soo happy that they will be coming back for more. First set of images are of Brother and Sister Erin and Shay.

And lastly we have Sisters Mia and Kara.

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At last I was able to get out to capture images. It is the middle of Summer 2020, restrictions lifted slightly and the weather is not too bad. The first shoot I had planned was an outdoor sitter shoot. My baby step granddaughter had just turned six months and I wanted to capture that milestone.

The shoot itself was hard work, the little madam decided she did want her photo taken lol, but I managed to get a few shots before she threw the towel in. I decided to try something a little different in post production with this set of images, I wanted to try and create an oil painting effect without them actually looking like they had been painted. Im still not 100% sure about the edit but it was nice to try something different.

“Outdoor sitter shoot” with Sofia Irvine

I enjoyed the outdoor shoot and was happy to have my camera back in my hand, so I decided to do some promotion work for outdoor shoots. I used the images I captured from the above shoot, and designed a promotion leaflet offering clients an outdoor shoot at a discounted price. The promotion leaflet was displayed on my social media platforms in order to grab peoples attention.

To my surprise there were loads of people interested in this shoot but unfortunately the weather changed quickly and I was only able to get one more done that year (will post the shoot in a blog post soon). Preparing promotions and eye catching leaflets definitely pays off and i will be preparing a few different promotions for 2021 (praying for the better weather). until the next time 😘

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