Studio diary of Hampshire photographer - Mike French
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Well I just got back from the Hampshire Baby & Toddler Show in Southampton. The show started very busily, and the large cruise centre terminal filled with prams, toddlers, expectant woman and friends, dads, husbands, partners and parents. Our stand drew lots of admiring glances, and wonderful comments and we spoke to lots of people...
The second annual Hampshire Baby and Toddler Exhibition takes place this weekend on the 2nd Octovber at the City Cruise Terminal. It runs from 10am to 3:30pm and should, based on last year, be an amazing event. We will of course be attending again and will be in our regular position at stand B12, close to the refreshments area.
Every Christmas we know that many of our portrait clients are looking to give gifts to the their families of the images we have taken. We do sell a lot of desk framed prints for grandparents presents; ideal for a sideboard, mantlepiece, piano or desk.
This portrait session featured another brother and sister and is from Stubbington, Hampshire. With slightly older children this studio session was more active with some running and jumping as well as some natural portraits. As we have a lot of childrens portrait photography on the site at the moment I’ll just let the images do the talking.
This morning we were photographing more children in Fareham and todays were brother and sister. This kids photographic session was again photographed with a white background in the studio and we had the opportunity to get both of them in the photographs together as well as individually.
Here are some images from todays children’s portrait session photographed in hi-key style (white background) in the studio.
This afternoon was dedicated to shooting some contemporary family portraits in the run up to Christmas. All done in the fashionable high key style I covered not only the full family groups but some individuals portraits of the children as well. All of the families were from Hampshire with most being in the Hill Head, Stubbington and Locksheath areas.
This morning I had another series of portrait sessions with local toddlers and children with our contemporary white background set.
Today we photographed some local Stubbington, Fareham children at their pre-school. I love shooting portraits on location and so we followed the kids outside into the garden area and with parents, and organisers assistance captured some natural candid portraits and also some semi-posed or at least positioned portraits in the shaded areas of the garden.
