14.03.17

The groom arrives! I took this photo when my cousin, Nikhil had arrived at the wedding venue to get married. This is definitely one of my favourite images from the couple of days I was in London. The venue was fantastic but I didn't photograph the actual wedding ceremony as I wasn't the official photographer, that would be way too much responsibility for me to handle. I did, however, photograph the groom's side walking into the venue, where chaos had broken out! The bride's side wouldn't let anyone without paying money! Which was pretty funny. I love this shot because of how the groom is placed and composed, which is directly in the middle of the two men on the sides of the image frame. His clothing stands out with the red and gold brightening up the image. His facial expressions show that he is happy and excited to get married, however before he left for the venue, I can tell you he was nervous and stressed! His expressions connote the whole day, a happy day to remember for the rest of his and his wife's life. 

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11.03.17

So in October, my cousin, Nikhil got married! It was the first wedding that I attended in years, and thought this was the perfect opportunity to capture some shots which I never had the chance to. Then my aunty asked me to take photos, I was really honoured to. This was in the middle of a traditional ritual, Nikhil didn't really understand as you can tell by his facial expressions! The priest had talked for a while before his phone went off twice! I had captured loads of images just from this ritual, while editing, I wanted to make Nikhil and the priest the main subjects without any distractions in the background, so I desaturated the image and left them in colour. I think it has given the image a more dramatic effect at the same time, It also tells a story of marriage in Hinduism. It was a really good experience for me. Both in the photography way and the religion way, I got to learn how to quick you have to be when photographing a wedding and also learnt about the ritual. It was difficult photographing a wedding for the first time at 19 years old, due to having to tell people to move out the way without being rude! I had a fantastic couple of days in London! More pictures of the wedding will be coming out soon but I want to take this opportunity to thank Nikhil and my aunty for giving me such a big responsibility!

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03.03.17

One of my favourite portraits from the project. I had chosen the right place to take the picture. I wanted to capture the text in the background and also have his blue and white scarf conveying David being a Leicester fan. I had a lot of fun with project, definitely had more fun than I thought I would. It went really successful and ended up with a lot of images that helped me with the project and my blog at the same time. One of my keen hobbies is sports photography. Whether it is capturing fans or the sport itself, I will always have fun while learning and developing new skills. Starting off by photographing football fans, I hope one day I will be given the opportunity to capture and photograph football matches. I have always had a keen eye for sports photographs and would love to test it out myself.

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24.02.17

Carrying on from my portraits with the theme of football and football fans, I got in touch with a massive Leicester City fan and also an author who's book sold a lot of copies. We had started outside of the King Power Stadium and then David took me to the old ground, which is now a car park, grass and a stand is now a student accommodation. Then finally went across from the stadium to the river. Where you see a beautiful view of the football stadium which gave me ideas for some portrait shots. I loved the green logo of Leicester, which was lit in honour of the Brazilian team following the horrible tragedy. This is one of my favourite portraits and will always be one of my favourites.

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07.02.17

For my portrait project for university, I decided to have a theme of football/football fans. Luckily, I managed to get a ticket to a Leicester City game and this allowed me to capture some candid portraits of my friends watching the players warm up. I think the camera angle works well, it captures their facial expressions perfectly and the audience gets an idea of what I am trying to achieve here. This is one of my favourite shots but have got a few more which I will be posting in a couple of days time. I have always been interested in sports photography and hopefully while studying photography at De Montfort University, I will be able to get into the industry more and start capturing some awesome sports photographs...

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20.12.16

My Best Picture Yet?? So when I did a portrait photoshoot outside and around the King Power Stadium, me and my subject ran into this little beauty of a creature. As soon as I saw the Owl, I had to take a photo of it. Luckily for me, the Owl looked into the camera as soon as my flash popped up from the camera and so I managed to capture this stunning shot and in my opinion, it is my best and favourite picture till date. I have never come across an Owl in my life and to manage to capture this stunning creature made me realise photographing animals and nature is something I want to do in the future. If I come across anymore wonderful animals, I will be quick to capture and share the work with you guys!. I manipulated this image very slightly on Photoshop just to darken the background to remove any distractions from the animal. I love how the Owl has made eye contact with the camera aka you guys too, it is like it is staring right at you! In conclusion this is my best ever image taken!!

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14.12.16

For University, I have to do a portrait project and I decided to base it around football fans/footballers. So today I went to Abbey Park, where with a fellow student at De Montfort University, They played football and I took photographs. Now this photograph isn't for the actual project and I actually didn't mean to capture this photo but going back through the images I found this shot. I love it. I think the shadows, the lighting just work well and the camera angle is amazing. The weather helped a lot and this photograph was taken with only available light as that is what the project is about. Now it is obviously a park but it also looks like a football pitch because of the grass and the football. I also love the track lines on the grass, it makes the image better and more interesting too.

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