Wednesday 23 November 2011

Josh & Megan: First Look

Shooting another photographer's wedding (let alone an AWESOME photographer's wedding) is one of the most daunting things I've ever done. Megan and Josh flew me out to Arkansas to photograph their beautiful beautiful wedding - and I have to say, I absolutely fell in love.

Not only did their family open their arms and put the coffee on, they gave me so much encouragement and warmth the whole time I was there! Megan & Josh's wedding was a complete dream, and I couldn't help but share some images from their First Look! I haven't finished their wedding yet, but here are some previews! :D





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Love you guys :D

Wednesday 26 October 2011

weddings!!! :D

Apologies for my absence - this month has been a crazy mix of my 21st birthday (wwoooooooo) flying to the states to shoot Megan & Josh's awesome wedding and editing like a madwoman :P

Here are some images from weddings I've been editing at current :D

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Have a lovely day!


FIST BUMP!

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Thursday 29 September 2011

Take every oppurtunity.

Seriously, today has been mega! I've been on-it-like-a-car-bonnet responding to emails, getting stuff DONE!

One of the big lessons I stumbled upon quite early in my photography time-line, was that you should take every oppurtunity you a presented with - low pay, no pay, high pay, whatever. Occasionally when I am very busy I forget this slightly, but today I was so busy and had a massive reminder that DAMMIT ROSIE - the way to get more jobs, to feel secure is to take EVERY oppurtunity.

I've gotten wedding photography jobs from writing my website on a piece of paper bag on a train, just yesterday I saw a Boots sales assistant was wearing an engagement ring and often get into chats with anyone regardless - it's so surprising but when people have just a nice, no pressure chat with you, they naturally want to help you succeed. No advertising, no "mega value deals" - just niceness.

Here's a quote I LOVE:

"All things unequal, people will always buy from a friend. All things equal, people will still always buy from a friend."

This is stupidly true. Luckily I fell into this mantra the right way - not being nice to people to get something out of them, but being nice to them because it's nice to be nice. But it's such a wonderful thing, and has opened so many doors!


Today I shot with clothes sent to me by American Apparel on their suggestion (awesome!!!). Last year I shot the album cover for Maroon 5, a band I am a stupidly massive fan of. I've had emails from Samsung, done book covers for Penguin books and lots of work inbetween. And I'm pretty sure none of this, and I mean none of it, would have happened if it hadn't have been for those little doors opening along the way.

And I'm not talking about massive blogs wanting to feature me or knowing the "right" people. Seriously I knew/know no one. But the every day people, you and me. It just clicked. For every email I reply nicely to, that's one person who might have a smile on their face. A smile on their face generates a click next time I post somethin' up. A click results in a feature somewhere - flickr explore, or a higher google search. And then BAM Maroon 5 see my work on a google search! Job booked, Rosie falls off chair, people everywhere send emails - I GET RESPONDING.


It's not a case of getting something out of people - that "thanks for your lovely comments" email might never lead anywhere, and I'm pretty sure the awesome high schooler who made me a wicked video sure doesn't have Beyonce's phone number. But niceness PAYS off! It does! There's so much negativity on the net, and it baffles me! So many people who want to be successful - the key is just to get talking! Send compliments, post interesting thoughts, have a go, fail, have another go, send thanks, send questions - and bang, watch those doors start opening.


Everyday I think I'm learning more and more the importance of the "unimportant". I'm so excited to release editing tutorials, and I hope they help people out and I'm so glad people are willing to actually buy them (for a noice price ;)). But more than anything I owe everything to the people who click, to the people who email and support even though they don't have to.

For all you guys out there who are waiting for your doors to open - send an email! Like a friends' facebook photo. Do a shoot for free. N-e-t-w-o-r-k. Don't expect anything back, be grateful if it comes back atcha.

I've got so many ideas, help and help alike ones! :) I'll be posting some of them up here

and I'd love opinions on the ones people would like to see me complete :)

Thanks for readin' and thanks for the click :D

Rosie xxx

Wednesday 7 September 2011

Day 17

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So I spent today recording the first tutorial - wedding photography editing! Only to find after four hours of editing and recording and talking (to myself, it seems!) that the file had corrupted and not recorded/saved properly! I'm gutted. I'm going to try recording it in smaller sections tomorrow - just a shame to waste a whole day which could have been productive! Nonetheless, this is one of the shots I edited up!

To see a before/after, click here!

Tuesday 6 September 2011

My apartment has the best walls ever

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So, I'm all moved into my new apartment! The reason I picked this place was because THE WALLS ARE AMAZING! It's like living in a beautiful studio straight out of a Vogue set. Sigh. Freckin' awesome!!

Anyway, since I have these gorgeous walls & am paying dearly for them, it seems natural not to hide em away, so i've decided to attempt to launch some mini-beauty shoots (like the example you see above).

I'm hoping to take the regular boudoir style-photoshoot and make it light, airy and classy with some romantic shoots between twigs and cherry blossoms thrown in. I'm gonna start doing these at a fraction of regular shoot price because
a) it's a lot more simple
b) it doesn't take too long
and c) i've never done boudoir before!

So if anyone fancies a trip to Manchester for one of these shoots, get in touch :D They'd make lovely gifts for husbands and boyfriends or even just to feel awesome bout yourself. And now I feel super cheesy for saying that :P

Anyway, shoots will start at £99 for a really short time only. Bring your fancy pants! ;)

Rosie xx

Monday 5 September 2011

Thursday 1 September 2011

The morning of Erin's wedding :D I have literally about a hundred pics from this section of her day, but don't want to spoil the surprise when she gets them so will be posting more as the days go by :P

This wedding was in Seattle! Erin & Steven flew me out there, and it was the most special day. I felt like we were family before the wedding even started, and we got some aweeeeeesome shots!!!



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