{"id":4068,"date":"2020-12-31T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2020-12-31T09:29:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T09:29:49","slug":"a-look-back-at-my-favourite-portrait-and-group-photos-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/a-look-back-at-my-favourite-portrait-and-group-photos-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"A look back at my favourite portrait and group photos of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This has been an incredibly strange year for so many of us. This look-back will probably be the most unusual one I will ever post. Let’s see…<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

On 1st Jan 2020, I had no idea that all the events I was photographing that year would be cancelled, nor that all the weddings I had booked for the year would be reduced to just three, with the rest postponing to 2021 and even further ahead into 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the lockdown gave me was spare time. There were things I wanted to learn but I never had enough ‘quality’ time to learn them. This was my chance so I grabbed it with both hands and dove in. I spent both lock-downs improving my lighting skills. I spent as much time as possible learning, practising and building on top of what I already knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Financially, this year has been really difficult. Skill-wise, this has been the year I needed to push my skills and abilities to the next level. It was eye-opening to start truly understanding how lighting works with different tools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because all the events I was covering this year were cancelled, there are so few to choose from this year. For 2020 they are nearly all single portraits, but I did have fun with all of them \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n