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Hello!

My name is Thomas David Kavanagh, a photographer that shoots wedding, lifestyle and commercial portraiture. I was born and bred in Dublin, Ireland but have been living in Birmingham, England for the past decade.

I have started a photography business called Saol Photography. Saol (pronounced 'Sail') is the Irish word for 'life'. I chose this as it represents how important photography is to me as well as the type of photographs I want to make.

In this blog I will share details of how my business progresses and also the projects that I am working on. Your views and comments are greatly appreciated. All of the writing and images seen in this blog are created by me and I retain the copyright. Should you wish to use any of my images, please contact me for permission.

Thank you for taking the time to visit,
Tom :-)

Saturday, 2 April 2011

Studio Shoot

This is probably the most excited I've been about one of my posts. Obviously nothing is going to compare to unashamedly showing off my beautiful son, but in regards to my photography work I do harbor the ambition to also do commercial work. How happy was I when Helen Howard, whom I had met on a training course run by the very talented Mr. Steve Gerrard (see previous non-football explanation), sent a shout-out on Twitter to let people know she was a holding a model event at her studio.





As well as being a wedding and portrait photographer (have a look at Helen's work at www.helenhowardphotography.co.uk), Helen is also a partner in Image Red Studios in Tamworth. The studio is really nice and though I began quite nervous at the prospect of my first studio shoot, I was very quickly relaxed and very happy with the results. I can't say enough good things about everyone there, really helpful and supportive. I would definitely recommend to snappers at any level wanting to do it out of interest, experience or for a portfolio. Booking and information about events can be found on www.photographer-in-birmingham.co.uk.






The shoot itself was fashion-focused which I found really interesting despite being stylishy-challenged myself :-) My research is why you might have seen me walking out of Tesco recently with a bunch of Vogue, Tatler and GQ mags (not that it's having any positive influence on my dress sense!). To get some practice for future ventures I tried to capture jewellery as a focus in some of the images.





The models were as patient as they are beautiful and also very professional. An unexpected treat for the evening was provided by Keshia, the model pictured above. To give some variety in poses Keshia sang a cappella during one of her sessions, her voice was amazing enough but even more impressive to find it was one she had written herself. Have a listen for yourself at www.keshia.co.uk, I'm looking forward to the bragging rights to have photographed a multi-platinum artist before she went off to take over the world!

I'm embarrassed to say I didn't get everyone's name from the night but will get them and put in a follow-up post.



Rock and Roll :-) Happy Saturday!

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