A while back, I completed a gorgeous shoot for a business named In Good Company, who offer a range of imported linen, tableware decorations and, basically, just lovely things!

I wanted to keep it all quiet until their newsletter was done, dusted and launched and, since it is, I can now finally reveal.

The theme of the tea party set-up was Alice in Wonderland and you can see by the images they went full-out with the styling and props. My first commercial shoot and I absolutely loved it!

More picture on the In Good Company blog.

...and wait! there is more, you can download free printable pdf files used for this bride in wonderland shoot - just click here.

I am out of the country till Thursday with no access to my emails. If you want to receive a copy of my packages please send an email to prices@andreacarlylephotography.co.za.

I come back to warm weather on Thursday.

I'm not really blogging, because I have a wedding today. I'm just posting one random shot, of Jay and Sarah, which hardly counts as 'blogging'.

In general, I'm not so good with change (I have a tendency to find a comfort zone and to cling to it for dear life).

It was with this in mind I first agreed to present RE.INVENT with Dror, since public speaking is very much outside my comfort zone.

So, you will understand why I was equally nervous (as I was excited) for RE.INVENT, which was convened at The Forum Homini Hotel, yesterday.

Previewing the participants' websites and blogs beforehand did not help the jitters, as I knew we had some serious talent and amazing photographers lined up for the workshop.

 
We had such an amazing group in attendance, along with gorgeous models, which were a picture of perfection, Gen worked her little butt off to achieve the images the attendees were striving for.

 
I can't wait to check out the blogs to see what images were captured yesterday. ...and, if anything, I hope that the participants have picked up, that Dror and I attempt to get picture-perfect photos straight out of camera and use PS/Lightroom purely as a an enhancer.

For the first time ever, I  can say I took the least amount of shots on the day, as I was more occupied with questions from the photographers themselves.
Naturally, no post without a pic, so here you are - Just one photograph, which I took demonstrating a point to one of the participants.

The first one developed ......in Lightroom. Yes, I discovered a few tips and also tried my hand at Lightroom.

For all those that attended:

Canon 5D | 24-70 2.8
Settings: Aperture Priority, f 4.5, Iso 400, WB Manual.

Processing: Those gradient things taught by Dror and conservative tweaking of sliders in Lightroom (So conservative that I can not, for the life of me remember). No presets used. 

 
In the second, I used the same image and played around with the "darker side"

Less has really become more these last couple of days. Less sleep = getting more work done.

Deadlines and a to-do list that is turning out to be an instruction manual; busier than ever, I have had some great shoots I still need to post, but, for now, my priority as promised. . . Nancy and Paul.

It was a fabulous marriage ceremony at Leopard Lodge.  I absolutely loved working with Nancy and Paul.  Both were so relaxed, natural, full of laughs and made us feel like part of wedding!

The weather was totally gorgeous, cloudy at just the right times, with the sun peeping out during the creatives, which made it all too easy for Ursula and I.

I'll leave the chitter-chatter short, so I may now scratch one more item off that list of mine and give you the images of Nancy and Paul.

How gorgeous are these shoes?