Hello From Luke Woodford- 1st Post

[LukeWoodford]

Hi all,

My name is Luke Woodford.

11 months and 3 days ago I had long talk with my girlfriend. We were thinking of business ideas, she suggested becoming a photographer. I had never been into photography but im creative, its relativly cheap to set up etc etc. The next day I bought a camera, worked my bum off and that was that. 11 months ago I didn't know what exposure meant, now by the end of my first year I have 16 weddings booked (done 7). I shoot portraits and also do some commercial work. I also LOVE street photography, mainly street portraits.

I have been a member of the Talk Photography forums since I started. I have decided to join other forums so more people can see my personal stuff. Here is a selection of my work over the last two weeks. I look forward to sharing more of my work with you over time.


http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q334/lukewoodford1985/homesless024-1_1-2_3-1.jpg


2
http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q334/lukewoodford1985/homesless020-1-2_-3_-1.jpg


3
http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q334/lukewoodford1985/protest048-1-2_-3_-5.jpg


4
http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q334/lukewoodford1985/protest038-1-2_-3_-2.jpg


5
http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q334/lukewoodford1985/protest036-1-2_-3_-1.jpg


6
http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q334/lukewoodford1985/eastbourne3012-1-2_-3_-1-1.jpg


7
http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q334/lukewoodford1985/Brighton029-1-2_-3_-11-7.jpg


8
http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q334/lukewoodford1985/Brighton014-5.jpg


9
http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q334/lukewoodford1985/Brighton059-6.jpg


10
http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q334/lukewoodford1985/eastbourne3054_5_6_7_8-2.jpg


Thanks for looking, I hope you like them. My website is www.lukewoodfordphotography.com

[LukeWoodford]

Sorry I posted in wrong place, please move :D

[Agnieszka]

Wow! Nice photos & great processing! Not sure how your pics looked like when you started off, but being where you are, 11 months later is QUITE impressive! Congrats :clap

[elizabeth_Luna]

I love that last shoot WOW:bow

[Darren Troy C]

You do amazing work and your processing is bad-ass.....I mean let's not beat around the bush about it! :thumb

[FlyNavy]

Luke, I love your street pics!
J

[marikris]

These are fantastic! I am not good with street pictures myself. I have a hard time pointing my camera at strangers :/ Most of the time I get feet.

[Llywellyn]

Your street portraits are astounding. Such personality in each of them! The first two are particularly emotive. Love your processing as well. :thumb

Welcome to DGrin! :clap

[rwells]

http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q334/lukewoodford1985/homesless024-1_1-2_3-1.jpg



This shot kinda aggravated me when he flicked ashes on my keyboard :rofl

Great shot, great processing. Looking forward to more of your work. :thumb

[Cuties02q]

Welcome! Wow really stunning work and in only 11 months :clap

[Richard]

Welcome to Dgrin, Luke. :wave

Great introduction. :clap:clap:clap

[D'Buggs]

These are fantastic! I am not good with street pictures myself. I have a hard time pointing my camera at strangers :/ Most of the time I get feet.


Thanks,,,,, now I need to clean my monitor. :rofl




Nice show there, Luke!

[WingsOfLovePhoto]

Welcome to Dgrin Luke! #7 is hysterical! Thanks for sharing :D

[Nikolai]

Luke, welcome to Dgrin, mate! :clap
Awesome work! :thumb

[LukeWoodford]

Hi everyone thanks for all the replies, I must say I was scared to look. When I mentioned to the guys on tP that I wanted to join other places to share my work I some people shot me down and they thought I was basically spamming, funny since I have over 2700 posts there and I have contributed ALOT to the forum. Thank you all for welcoming me and I will be contributing to this forum, it looks like a great place, quite hard to get my head around because its so different from TP but ill get used to it :)

[Arvan]

you got a new fan :clap i just think this is superb..And all this in 11 months..That´s very well done!

[LukeWoodford]

you got a new fan :clap i just think this is superb..And all this in 11 months..That´s very well done!

Thank you, its more like 3 years though the amount of actual hours ive speant learning a reading forums and stuff :)

[kdog]

Pretty awesome introduction, I'd say. Great style and photography!

Cheers,
-joel