The beginning.....

Bonjour! My name is Laura Jayne Hayes!


The very beginning....


I love looking at pictures.... I am generally interested in all sorts of photography, but the more creative photos always gets my attention, that's why I love looking through Vogue or other high fashion magazines.


My love of taking pictures comes from travelling the world. I have travelled North America, South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, Kenya and many other places.  On my travels I saw many amazing things which I have been able to catch on camera so I can take myself back to that place and relive to a certain extent.  This is where I decided on trying to pursue learning more about the world of photography.


I signed up to do a NCFE Level 1 qualification which I started last September and finished in June this year.  I learned an enormous amount and did assignments on all of the key factors of photography, ISO, aperture, shutter speed etc.


After learning so much just in my first year, I now want to continue to further my skills in all areas and learn techniques and subjects on what I may not have touched on my NCFE.


That's why I have decided to do Specialist Photography and Presentation in Studio Photography which is Unit 211 and 207.  I believe I will benefit a lot from doing this Certificate and look forward to getting involved in the studio with the lighting equipment and trying to get as creative as possible.  As well as doing fashion and portrait photography I would also like to touch on some still life photography using the studio lighting and all of the other equipment involved.


I also work in the events management industry and have on occasions been the photographer on an event and managed to get a whole load of decent images where they are used for various things such as marketing material, photo disk's for purchase and my latest achievement was a picture in a local newspaper..... (No byline though....)


So after all of that.... I'm looking forward to hopefully getting some nice images and learning lots more from the course, my tutor and my class mates!