Symply Photography

Today I’m editing a batch of photos taken  at the Venice Carnival this weekend.   The trip was organised by a photographer friend  who thought it would be great if a few of us went during the Carnival .  With 4 photographers and 2 models it was brilliant to be able to talk photography all weekend! Saturday was beautiful and sunny – but as it was the last weekend of the carnival it meant St Marks Square was heaving with people.  That made it difficult to take great photos so I put on my long 70-200mm zoom and concentrated on close up head shots of the costumes.

Sunday was unfortunately wet, cold  and drizzly, with very flat lighting so it limited the amount of shots we could get – however our model Lottie  (www.lorettahope.co.uk) bravely agreed to a shoot on one of the bridges so were able to have a play with different forms of lighting set ups. Thank you Lottie you were a superstar x

Sunday evening we had an impromptu master class from our  mentor Damian resulting in a rather stunning “lady of the night” image using a stunning costume loaned by  Neil at http://neilhughes.co.uk/body-art.html - thank you!

Certainly I learnt a lot from that session – creating a story, a mood and lighting it appropriately. A big thank you for that Damian as I know you didn’t go to spend time teaching us! Damian was testing some new equipment from Olympus (http://www.damianmcgillicuddy.com/journal/2012/2/22/the-cat-is-now-out-of-the-bag.html)  and thought Venice would be the perfect location!

Monday was still wet but we decided to concentrate on doing the tourist run for the day,  and waited until dark to capture some very atmospheric low light images of Venice from the Rialto Bridge. Here are just a few of the many images I took during the trip .