Lucy And The Lens

Tag: #photographer

  • My Year Back At University

    It all started in September 2017 when I’d been out of university for three years. I decided to go to a postgraduate advice event at UCLAN (the university of central Lancashire), looking into studying a master’s in photography. A few days later I applied hoping to start straightaway. However, I was a little late applying…

  • Halloween 2019

    Halloween 2019

    If you remember last year I did a Day Of The Dead Inspired shoot in the studio. This year I decided to plan a Halloween shoot with another photographer. We choose to do glamourous Halloween rather than dark and Gory. Corpse Bride And Harlequin Shoot The look I chose was a modern-day Harlequin/ Pennywise look.…

  • Halloween\Day Of The Dead

    What Is Halloween/ Day Of The Dead? A lot of people think that Day Of Dead and Halloween are interrelated. However they are two different festivals that appear to unintentionally connect in a number of ways. As stated on the National Geographic website Halloween is a dark night of terror whereas day of the dead…

  • Tips I Learned From Fashion Photography 101 by Lara Jade

    “An artists vision creates the image; the camera simply captures it.” This is the opening line of the book and also the most important. Before you even pick up the camera you must have an idea of what you want to create as the camera doesn’t do the work for you, you have to do…

  • Crystal Ball Photography

     At the beginning of the year, I set myself 30 photography related goals. Currently, I have started 11 of them, and today I am going to talk about goal number 24 which was to begin using props within my photography. My First prop of 2018 is a Crystal Ball because this is something I’ve wanted…

  • 30 Photography Goals To Kickstart 2018

    So I thought I’d kick of 2018 by setting some goals to help me focus on how to move forward with my photography. So here is a list of what I want to achieve this year: Sort Out Business Cards. Enter National and International Competitions. Start Putting my Ideas into Motion. Start a hashtag a…

  • 10 Ideas To Stay Inspired With Little Time

    The first challenge is to write a list post and I thought seen as I’ve been busy lately  I’d make a list of 10 ideas to unleash the creative photographer within you. This list is typically what I might do on a week when I have very little time to get out and about and…

  • Victorian Fair

    A Few months ago I went to Winckley Square in Preston to photograph a Victorian Fair with Preston Photographic Society. This involved people lots of people dressing up in costumes that depicted the victorian era and a couple of comedic acts. There was a juggler and a magician who used a crystal ball as a…

  • What Lead Me To The Fencing Selfie?

    What Lead Me To The Fencing Selfie?

    The Inspiration So towards the end of 2015, I joined Preston Photographic Society and I started entering the competitions. One of these competitions is a theme competition, which changes each month and one of the themes was sport. I had two choices to photograph someone doing taekwondo or someone doing fencing because I do both…

  • Photography And Social Media Marketing

    I’ve been passionate about photography for as long as I can remember and it’s only in the last couple of years I realised that you need more than just photographs. I’ve made social media marketing into one of my top priorities on the way to starting a business. It all began when I decided I…