General Photography | Snow

It is getting to the last ten days of 2009 and with that you have Christmas drawing ever closer, now as I write this it is the 21st of December. And nothing says Christmas to me than snow. And recently there was a snowfall in Bangor and I was able to get a series of shots as well a couple of portraits.

I love taking photos of snow and I love snow itself. These photos were taken on my Canon EOS 50D with the Sigma 18-50mm f2.8 lens.  One of the photographs in this post looks more like a snapshot which to be honest it was, but, I like it enough that I have decided to include it.

In this post there are seven photographs that were taken whilst my camera was in manual mode. The last photograph is my favourite of the set.

Portraiture Photography | Rafaela Sakoyianni

I have recently moved to Bangor. An area in North West Wales. There is a University here and although I am not a student at the university I am able to take part in the societies that are based there. One of the societies that I have joined [unsurprising] is The Photographic Society.

Every month the photographic Society picks a theme to lead the photographers in a particular direction and help grow and develop their skills in the photographic sense.

This month the theme for the society is portraiture. Which is where I now believe to be where my photographic strength in lies.

We had a portraiture session and I used a girl from the society called Rafaela. And was able to produce the four photographs that I have included below. All these photographs were taken with a Canon EOS 50D using the Canon 50mm f1.8 mk1 lens and using the camera on manual mode whilst having a single light source to the side in a darkened room.