{"id":1293,"date":"2013-04-30T21:29:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T21:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s332526204.websitehome.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2025-01-27T17:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:35:46","slug":"family-photographer-london-just-a-glimpse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/index.php\/family-photographer-london-just-a-glimpse-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Photographer London &#8211; Just a Glimpse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little glimpse of a London family photography session I did recently. More\u00a0images will\u00a0follow soon.\u00a0Some of my favourite photos are of the moments in between the &#8220;posed&#8221; shots. In this scene I was photographing five children with their grandmother when suddenly everything descended into chaos and laughter. OK I admit it&#8230; the tickling was my idea but I love the result \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h2>From film to digital in two years!<\/h2>\n<p>When I started on my photography journey I wasn&#8217;t quite sure of the direction I wanted to go in. I just knew that I wanted to turn my hobby of taking photographs into my profession. So I enrolled on\u00a0a two year course at the City of Westminster College. It was a time of vast change in the photography world. The course started using\u00a0film in the dark room and by the time I graduated I was totally\u00a0digital!<\/p>\n<p>The course was fantastic and by the time\u00a0I finished I knew I wanted to spend my time photographing people.\u00a0I feel\u00a0lucky enough to have done that ever since then. I photograph weddings, engagements, families, musicians, headshots, schools, nurseries. So many different areas of work, but all with one thing in common &#8211; people!<\/p>\n<h2>Documentary family photography<\/h2>\n<p>And the more photo sessions I did the more I liked the really natural, documentary style. So I now try, as much as possible, to photograph life as it happens, without too much intervention from me. Sometimes a helping hand is needed though and when these five lovely children posed on the sofa with their grandma I knew it was going to make a lovely family portrait, which it did, but I wanted more. So I asked the children if they wanted to test out who was the most ticklish amongst them. That was it &#8211; the laughter began, I clicked away and that was how this image was made. I just love the happiness on the faces of every single child and of the grandma &#8211; I hope you enjoy the image too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s332526204.websitehome.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Family-Photographer-London3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1295\" title=\"Family Photographer London\" src=\"http:\/\/s332526204.websitehome.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Family-Photographer-London3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Family-Photographer-London3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Family-Photographer-London3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little glimpse of a London family photography session I did recently. 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