The Magic of Photography

Yesterday was pretty bleak, with a cold white sky, and not a particularly photo-worthy day.  However, I'd been walking with our hound in the morning and seen this tree on its side and wanted to get a flash lit shot there.  I collected my girls from school and tentatively suggested a trip out.  To my surprise they were up for it (must be hoping for good Christmas pressies!!!) so off we went, cookies in the car as sweetners!!!  When we arrived, it was the usual story, it had all seemed like a good idea, but they'd changed their minds once we'd got out of the car - to be fair, it was pretty grim!  However, I helped Em up on to the tree and set Aimee up with the flash (a great assistant, and only 7!!!) I took my ambient test shot - what a dull and boring image, then I dropped my exposure by a couple of stops, got Aimee pointing the flash in the right direction (!) and BAM!  This was the result!  Their reaction - WOW!!!  That's the power of photography!!!  It's magic!  Emma wants to know if she'll be famous now - I told her I couldn't promise that, but she'd definitely given me a shot worthy of a blog post!!!  Nice one, girls! : ) x x x x

BEFORE: - Uggghhhh!

AFTER: - YAY!