Noticing a poster round campus about a trip to Focus on Imaging and its only £2 to go, well I couldn’t find an excuse not to!
I have been before previously and in total spending £10 to get in and £5 for the coach it was an extremely long and boring day however we only got short of 3 hours to look around which I thought was a perfect amount of time.
I applied online as a photographer so I was able to get in the event for free, and being on a coach with different photography students which was a few years younger than me was very interesting. How they looked at things differently, approached things and how they acted in general, quite amusing actually. As the coach stopped for a break one girl rushed off with her camera to take a picture of an old man with a walking stick on her black and white film camera. To be stood a decent distance away but close enough for him to know and never asked permission to take his picture which amused me knowing my luck if that was me I would have got shooed off or smacked with the walking stick.
Finally arriving we had a quick look round because the main aim for me and Jess was to find Lara Jade. She was doing a talk at 1;00pm but it wasn’t down on the guide book, looking all over the place for it we had given up hope and on our way to another talk by Jayce Clarke and the secrets of off-camera flash. But on our way and being extremely nosey I went over to this large group of people to be all stood around waiting for the talk by Lara Jade, so shouting Jess to come over we listened to her talking about her experiences over the years as a fashion photographer, what she has done to get to where she has. 
When looking at her work and hearing her talk about her journey she was so inspirational from a young age she took brilliant fashion photographs doing self portraits so she could learn techniques and get confidence with her work and the technical side before approaching other people to be in the shots. She has a fantastic eye the way she edits her pictures are breath taking and the colours and composition of her images just go really well together.
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| Personally one of my favorite images by Lara Jade |
Lara using mainly natural light for her images and states she hasn’t got her own style as she is going with the trends and always learning as really good to hear. As before I have been asked what is your style and it’s really hard to answer that and felt like I need to have one by now but to hear this from someone as successful as her was a relief. However at my age she was producing ten million times better pictures than me and doing a lot more work so its made me think I need to pull my finger out. She is inspirational and made me remember why I want to do fashion photography!
