KE Southall Photography

So, as I mentioned in the last post, my sister got married last week and she asked me to do the photos! I have to admit that the day was a tad stressful, having to run around trying to get as many shots as possible as well as fulfill my bridesmaid duties and I have to say a HUGE thank you to Michelle who came along and helped me out by juggling the cameras, lenses and tripod and taking a fair few fantastic shots herself!

I am only now finding time to go through the shots and upload them onto a new section of my website and I am pretty pleased with the outcome. So here are some of the first few shots - I decided to stick with the black and white ones to start with.

More soon!

Ok, so I have yet again been absolutely rubbish at updating! However, that does mean that I have oodles and indeed, more oodles of photos to post.

So, a few photos that will be appearing soon will include:

Belfast - I was up there for a conference and, whilst I have been a tad busy to go through the photos yet, hopefully there will be a couple worth posting.

Wedding Pics - last week I managed to juggle the roles of cheif bridesmaid AND official photographer at my sister’s wedding!

Colm Lynch - I managed to get along to a gig ending my dry spell of concert photography (I got a bit jaded with the live gigs there for a few months!). I also met the fabulous Gingerpixel whilst there!

But, to ease myself back into this blogging lark, I would like to share with you a tale of fieldwork woe! I am pretty much stationed out on Bull Island all week in order to complete the fieldwork for my PhD. However, forever being the optimist, I assumed that the weather would be lovely (it is July after all!). But I was wrong! Yesterday didn’t turn out to be too bad although we did have to compete with a few rain showers. Today, however, was a complete wash-out….literally! It absolutely poured and after enduring the rain for 2 hours, we gave up….only for it to brighten up into the most amazing evening in a long while! Grrr…I wish it would just make up its mind!

I am currently in London on a statistics course but, unfortunately, the camera had to stay at home! I was kicking myself for leaving it behind when I got here though as its been so sunny and picturesque! Oh well - I should be studying, not playing with my camera! Besides, I still have lots of photos from my trip to the west coast of Ireland to sort through. Here are a couple more.

Over the bank holiday weekend, I was lucky enough to be able to get away to the west coast of Ireland where I spent a fantastic few days with some friends just driving around and taking in the spectacular scenery. Inevitably, I took a LOT of photos! I’m still trawling through them, which seems to be taking 10 times as long as normal due to  the amount of work that Uni is taking up! However, here are a couple of photos from the Cliffs of Moher for starters!

I have spent most of today working on a presentation for Wednesday but I couldn’t help taking a few minutes out of the day to play with my new lens! I haven’t taken too many photos yet but, so far, I am really happy.

Unfortunately, I also had a brief trawl through Flickr and after coming across some of my friends photos, I decided to have a bit of a play with the Orton Effect. Obviously I am still fiddling with it and haven’t got the technique quite right, but here is one of the first tries. First the original composition and then the “Orton-ised” copy!

Its about time for a bit of a change around…I get bored so quickly! Vivid purple is the name of the game - I really wanted to try and tie the blog in a little bit better with the colour scheme of the website and I think it works well.

The site has also been sqashed full of more pics…especially in the music gallery.

Oh and keep an eye out for some more photos (and even a new gallery perhaps) as I have finally gotten around to purchasing a new lens! After having a look around for a 85mm, f1.8 lens, it was suggested to me that perhaps I should look at the 50mm, f1.8. At almost a quarter of the price it seemed like too good a lens to overlook and so after a couple of days of pondering…I took the plunge and bought it!

Its a bit of an impulse buy to be honest but after having a bit of a play with it, I am really happy with the results in low light conditions which was the primary reason why I wanted it in the first place! I’m also really happy with the depth of field - something which I am sure I will have hours of fun experimenting with!

Looks as though I may have lined myself up a job taking photos of the Dublin mini-marathon. Its quite exciting as I’ve not done any “sports photography” as such so I will need to get practising!

I’ve not posted any photos in a while so here’s a photograph of the tree outside of my University building. We headed out to sit underneath it last week - the sun was deceptive though as it was still bitterly cold outside! Roll on the summer!

The Trinity University music magazine - Analogue, which I occassionally take photographs for, was successful last night in winning the Peoples Choice award at the Student Media Awards! Well done guys!

I was meant to be at the awards myself but, unfortunately, my research got in the way!

One of my photographs has appeared on page 2 of today’s Irish Times entertainment supplement, “The Ticket”! Exciting stuff!

My music gallery has been crammed for far too long so I decided it was time for a reshuffle. I have decided to just display a selection of my best pictures rather than have multiple photos of the same person or band who readers may not know or care about!

I’m still in the process of adding photos but the “coming soon” banner has now been lifted with around 25 photos up at the moment. So far there are pics of David Ford, Seth Lakeman, Devotchka and some photos from my BBC stint at Guilfest. Go take a look….more will be added soon.