BIPP Licentiateship
On 4 December 2006 Elna Moodie gained her BIPP Licentiate at the final qualification judging of the year. The qualification board saw submissions in portraiture, weddings, fashion, social, commercial, events and general practice.
Elna focused on wedding photography and had to submit ten photos taken at different weddings and ten photos taken at one wedding. Judges looked at creative input, print quality, presentation and the collection as a whole before making their final decision.
Elna is working towards getting her Licentiate in Portraiture this year and are currently has a special offer on all lifestyle portrait shoots. Please contact her on 079884 525 701 or at info@kiekiebox.com for more information.
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During the Easter holiday my husband and I did a road trip through Scotland partly to take a bit of a break from the polluted city air but mostly to get some new inspiration and ideas for my photography. And what a reward! The landscape was like nothing I have ever seen before with an amazing array of brown and greens. We were lucky to still have some snow on the mountains which rounded it all off. Places that really stood out were Glen Affric an enchanting moss covered forest and Glen Coe that has impressive mountains and streams with beautiful multi coloured stones. Actually thinking back there were so many things that were breathtaking like this rock pool that was taken at Elie on the East coast near St Andrews.
A big bonus was our visit to the Isle of Skye which is populated with artist. We visited quite a few galleries of which my favourites were:
- Woodrising Gallery that has environmental photographs by Alan Campbell; see www.woodrising-photography.co.uk
- Phil Gorton Studio that had very creative and colourful abstract photographs; see www.philgortonstudio.demon.co.uk
- Dun Studio where you visit the studio of John Bathgate whose work include contemporary paintings and collages; see www.dunstudio.com
I took over 700 photographs during the whole trip and am preparing a gallery for my website at the moment. Here you will be able to view and buy prints with you your paypal account. So keep a look out!
On Saturday 13 May Elna did a course in Studio Lighting at Photofusion's Studio in Brixton, London.
The course took participants through the fundamentals of high-key and low-key lighting set-ups, how lights work in a dialogue to the key light, how to evenly light a background and how to over or under expose it, how to add a fill-light and then an effect light. Everything was taught with studio flash.
The course was quite intensive, with a model for the morning and another in the afternoon. The day ended with participants having to correctly complete a lighting assignment.
The Guardian Weekend Photography Prize
KIEKIEBOX photographer Elna Moodie recently entered The Guardian Weekend Photo Prize. Weekend magazine is passionate about photography, and every week aims to bring you the best contemporary portrait, reportage and fashion images.
The competition was for best image inspired by the theme of "passion" and photographers could enter in the portrait, fashion, reportage or all categories. Elna entered all categories making particular effort with the portrait photograph which was shot at Waterloo station in London.
The overall winner, the best of the three category victors, will win £5,000 and a Weekend commission, to be published in the magazine in May. The three winning images and 25 commended entries will be exhibited at a gallery in central London in April.