Children photography Fife

Making children photography images in a classical style is where I’m specialising. It just doesn’t date, it doesn’t go out of fashion and it won’t look like those old photos of us when we were kids with the purple wallpaper and orange furniture in the background; or was that just the images of me as a child?

Classical portraits mean that you won’t need to re-frame everything when you change the décor of your living room, you won’t have to have the images remade just because the style of image has gone out of fashion, it’ll be as gorgeous as the day it was made.

With those words in mind, I wish to present a few images of children in a classical and low key style. Mono images with everything low-toned will go on any wall and look absolutely fabulous!

Photographic Dreams – Children photography Fife.

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Playgroup Photography at Brambles

I had the great pleasure of shooting the playgroup photography at Brambles Playgroup at the Rosyth Methodist Church.

Wonderful children with some real characters showing through even at their tender ages. One of my favourite images of the year (although my favourite subject is, of course, my own children) is of young Caeden whose Mum has kindly given permission for me to use his images for my business and he’s in the gallery below. When you see the image screaming “You know I’m wonderful!”, you’ll know which I mean. Also posted here is Calvin, whose Mum also gave permission, who was an absolute joy to shoot. Relaxed, calm and posed beautifully for everything asked.

Playgroup photography is very rewarding, if a little frustrating at times, with some children who just don’t want to be photographed suddenly shining in front of the lens. Wonderful stuff!

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Unusual model photography Fife

My photographic mentor set me the task of making images totally different to what I have done before. Part of the task was to use just one light, one lens and one modifier to make the images with. I have to note that using a zoom lens was perhaps not quite in the spirit of the task, but instead I chose to limit things on the lighting front by only modifying the light by using the flashguns zoom-head.

To satisfy the “totally different” aspect of the task, I chose to try to make something with an editorial feel and the subject of down and out. I wasn’t trying to glamorise the situation, although I did the shoot with two very good-looking models. The location is on the Fife coastal path and it was a freezing day.

Many thanks to both Becky and Jai for their patience and for cramming themselves into that small fireplace!

model photography fife

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Family photoshoot in Rosyth with the Murphy family

The lovely Murphy family commissioned me to do a photoshoot for family portrait photographs.

The family photoshoot went wonderfully, with everyone having fun and lots of giggles. Being able to share joy with a family in this way is one of the privileges of doing family photography. Getting great results from the photos is a wonderful part of being a photographer too.

The family love the photographs and really enjoyed themselves on the day.

Thankyou lovely Murphys for our wonderful family photoshoot Rosyth.

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Model photography with a difference

The difference on this shoot was that it was being videoed.

With thanks to Richy McAllister for filming the shoot and putting together a video of it.

I shot Becky in an abandoned (visitor-safe) church on the outskirts of Dalgety Bay. This was a fun shoot to get something different for both Becky and I and also for Richy to be able to shoot the shoot

This was the first time I’ve been filmed working and I have to say that it was an enjoyable experience. Many thanks Richy for your work shooting and editing this and for the day itself acting as a voice activated light stand. Model photography is just as much fun whether you’re being filmed or not.

The video, with thanks to Richy McAllister.

The photoshoot behind the scenes video on youtube

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I had the wonderful invitation to photograph a group of riders at Lindores this week and enjoyed myself immensely.

Guided by wonderfully friendly and knowledgeable Keith, I was in a good position at all times to see where the riders were going and have the very best views.  Thankyou very much for sharing your knowledge and for your company Keith.

Horse photography is wonderful fun, especially for me, as I had so little experience of them growing up and they are definitely magnificent beasts.

If anyone who was there would like to order prints, please get in touch via the contact page or straight to email: Matty@photographicdreams.co.uk

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Family portraits Rosyth photographed by Photographic Dreams.

It gave me great pleasure to photograph these two handsome boys for their Mum. We had a lot of fun on the shoot and the boys engaged with the camera brilliantly.

Thanks for allowing me to post the images of them on here.

Beautiful images of our children are what we all want for our homes and this is aimed for at Photographic Dreams. Making those family portraits is always very rewarding and giving parents the images they want of their lovely children is a really great part of the job.

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I was very happy to be able to shoot with Mr John Denton and Fredau at fellow photographer Caroline Trotter‘s home. Beauty photography is always a really wonderful field to shoot in and this shoot was no exception.

Fredau was styled up by Karla von Denkoff with her makeup by Ola Kowalonek.

All I can say to working with a stylist and an MUA is that I wish to do so again!

Onto the images:

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Meeting today with photographers from up and down Scotland on an event I organise semi-regularly for photographers to network and just geek about photography. Today I invited Jai and Becky to come along for the shooting side of things and they did a cracking job of posing and made a lovely looking couple for the photographs.

The Central Scotland Meeting Group is for photographers of all abilities with only one stipulation: They have to have fun while there

Finally, Bryan had his McGillicuddy dish on his head as a hood – I don’t think Damian designed them as rain protectors, but hey-ho

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Saturday just gone, I was commissioned to shoot the Strathmore and District Riding Club‘s summer show. Now I haven’t shot very much in the way of equestrian things (there is the previous post to look at) and was a little worried about how to capture any action shots there might be. On the day, I absolutely loved photographing the horses and their riders. The horses are magnificent beasts, their riders are absolutely passionate about them and that passion really shows in how they look after those horses.
I’d be extremely happy to be commissioned to photograph more equestrian events.

The first photograph shows how miserable the conditions were at some points in the day and at the end we have Laura Halil and Karate Z, who were Supreme in Show.

Onto the pictures:

Anyone who attended the show and would like to buy prints from it, please visit the sales gallery here.

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