by Belinda | Mar 7, 2020 | Actor Headshots, Backdrops, Creativity, Fine Art Portraiture, Fujifilm, Fujifilm X-T2, Portraits, XF56mm F1.2
A Young Actor The other day I had the most amazing shoot with Michael. Michael is a student who loves acting. He wanted to shoot that showed his different facial expression’s and how he can act. He was after actor headshots, searched for Christchurch Photographer...
by Belinda | Jan 30, 2020 | Art, Child Photography, Christchurch, Creative Photography, Creativity, Dance Photography, Double Exposures, Fine Art Child Portraits, Fine Art Portraiture, Forest, Fujifilm X-T2, Landscapes, Location scouting, Portraits, School holiday activities, Travel, Waterfalls, XF56mm F1.2
A Real Adventure This week I went on a tramp to a beautiful waterfall. It is largely untouched by crazy Instagramers so I am not revealing the name here to leave it a sanctuary for local people. It takes a long time to drive there and four farm gates later you are...
by Belinda | Jan 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
A Favourite Location I had a pre-shoot consultation with a lovely Mum about what kind of photoshoot she would like and she decided she would love the ocean in the photos as her family loved holidaying in the Malborough Sounds. I told her about a new location I had...
by Belinda | Nov 11, 2019 | Backdrops, Child Photography, Christchurch, Creative Photography, Fine Art Child Portraits, Fine Art Portraiture, Fujifilm X-T2, Portraits, XF56mm F1.2
Children’s Fine Art Photoshoot | Child Photographer Christchurch The other day my friend Heather came to get some plants out of my garden. I have a very large garden and she has just moved into a new house and wanted to get some plants to make the garden better....
by Belinda | Nov 6, 2019 | Autumn photoshoot, Backdrops, Child Photography, Christchurch, Creative Photography, Fine Art Child Portraits, Fine Art Portraiture, Photography props
Finding Great Photography Props A Special Chair One year ago I went to the Infocus Conference run by NZIPP. I came back from Wellington on a Tuesday morning feeling extremely tired and almost hallucinating due to being up so late and being so busy for five days in a...
by Belinda | Oct 14, 2019 | Child Photography, Christchurch, Dance Photography, Family Photography, Fine Art Child Portraits, Fine Art Portraiture, Forest, Location scouting, Lyttelton, Ocean, Portraits, Sunset shoot, Teen shoot
Photography Spots in Christchurch There are many amazing places for photography in Christchurch in the Canterbury area. Why not why not try out some of my suggestions below. The Waimakariri River There are several places along this river which are wonderful for...
by Belinda | Oct 14, 2019 | Art, Backdrops, Black and white photography, Child Photography, Christchurch, Dance Photography, Fine Art Child Portraits, Fine Art Portraiture, framing, Fujifilm, Fujifilm X-T2, Portraits, Teen shoot, Uncategorized, XF35mm F1.4, XF56mm F1.2
Christchurch Fine Art Photographer Amazing twins I absolutely love taking photos of twins! So far I have had three sets of twins through my studio including three sets of non-identical twins. I have also had one set of triplets, one being non-identical to the other...
by Belinda | Sep 23, 2019 | Christchurch, Creative Photography, Creativity, School holiday activities
My Portrait Studio I am a portrait photographer and have a lot of lighting gear which gets set up and taken down every time I do a portrait session. My studio is in my lounge which is perfect. I get a lot of comments on how homely the studio is how warm and how...
by Belinda | Sep 22, 2019 | Art, Christchurch, framing, Travel
Examples of framing Here is an example of some timeless framing vs some dated framing from my own house. There are four pictures here on my hallway wall which were framed in about 1999. That was the year when I travelled around Europe and when I came home, I had...
by Belinda | Sep 22, 2019 | Art, Christchurch, Creative Photography, Creativity, Double Exposures, School holiday activities
Keeping Children Busy in the Holidays Arty Children My children like to watch Five Minute Crafts which is on YouTube and shows creative life hacks through videos. Recently they saw how to create artworks with food colouring milk and dishwashing liquid. Playing while...
