I can't believe I'm off to London tomorrow evening! I have mixed feelings about my trip, mostly it's excitement but there is definitely a good dollop of nerves thrown in. I'm nervous about the travelling, it's been over 8 years since I've left this island, I feel like I'm on Lost! I spent most of my childhood flying around as an airline brat so this has been weird for me. I'm of course super nervous about shooting the wedding, this is my first 'real' shoot and I really want to do a good job for Teri. I gave her the chance to back out and get a professional photographer but she has confidence that I can do a good job so hopefully I can live up to that! I'm excited about taking the pictures, I love weddings, brides are so beautiful :-) I'm very worried about the weather so we all need to start praying that we have sunshine, even if it's just for Wednesday and Thursday, I'm going to be nervous enough without having miserable weather to deal with ;-p I have been doing tons of practise shoots over the past month and that has really helped boost my confidence. I know I'm nowhere near professional level yet but I'm happy with where I am right now, like Jasmine Star says, it is what it is! Shooting raw and using Lightroom has made a big difference to me in giving me more freedom and speed in processing the images. I'm trying to focus now on getting the shots right so that I don't have so many to process and also so that I don't have to do much to them in post processing.
On a personal level I'm very excited about going to Utah and seeing the temples and being at the heart of Mormon country, my journey to Mecca as it were. I'm also excited about seeing my friends Ian and Rebecca again and getting to do some sightseeing with them in Salt Lake and Logan. Duane has been raving about Utah since he went there a few years ago with the company he worked with at the time for training and would move there tomorrow but I think emigrating is a once in a lifetime thing ;-p
Tomorrow my journey begins
Airports and planes, what a bore!
No A serves or B serves or syns
Take the sunshine along I implore!
Teri and Dave are to wed
In a temple of glorious white
It's time I was off to my bed
So I bid you a very good night xxxx
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