Mark Sands Photography

The other weekend I did a mock photo shoot with friends I managed to talk into sitting for me. The breif was they wanted pictures of them in their favourite location. They had already booked in for a weekend at the Dunkenhaigh Hotel, and they asked me to join them there.

I had already been and stayed at the hotel and had some good ideas of where would make good locations for the shoot, and had a set of poses that I wanted to try. However, I did limit myself to 3 locations and five poses. It was a good thing I had back-up locations as on arriving at the venue I could see the piano had been removed, as this was one I had chosen I had others to fall back on.

Even though the couple were my best friends I felt fairly nervous as I was trying to conduct the shoot as I would envisage doing to paying clients. As we got into the shoot I think we both relaxed and I found it easier to direct them into poses I wanted to make. Some poses worked, but some certainly didn’t, and looking back at the images I certainly have picked up on what I would try and do differently in the future.

I would really appreciate it if you could have a look through the images below and give me your opinion of them, on how I could improve them and different techniques as well as post processing.

Many thanks!