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		<title>Natasha + Ubong – Wedding at Eltham Palace, London</title>
		<link>http://alakija.com/blog/2012/02/09/natasha-ubong-wedding-at-eltham-palace-london/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been in Durham, North Carolina settling with my wife and getting through most of the post production work I&#8217;ve built up over the last couple of months. I&#8217;m glad I have this time away as it allows me to look back at all the work I&#8217;ve done, review and refocus. This year I plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stacy, A portrait</title>
		<link>http://alakija.com/blog/2012/02/06/stacy-a-portrait/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before I left for the States last week, I spent time doing a portrait session with my dear friend and make-up artist, Stacy Okafor (Queen of Light). As usual we had a lot of fun doing the photos and got a lot out of the shoot. I initially was just interested in doing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeke – my 2200th Tweeter Follower prize!</title>
		<link>http://alakija.com/blog/2012/01/30/seeke-my-2200th-tweeter-follower-prize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A month ago I put up a competition on Twitter. I had about 2100+ followers at the time. I basically said that whoever my 2200 follower would be would be entitled to a free photo session. Seeke her was the lucky recipient of this prize. We did the shoot two weekends ago and I promised to post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chioma + Obi – White Wedding, Abuja</title>
		<link>http://alakija.com/blog/2012/01/27/chioma-obi-white-wedding-abuja/</link>
		<comments>http://alakija.com/blog/2012/01/27/chioma-obi-white-wedding-abuja/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to start posting slideshow galleries like the one below on this blog more often. These will be a summary of the entire wedding as opposed to the full gallery you can see on my main site. I find that you can tell a better story with a sequence of photos presented over a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kemi + Rotimi – Wedding Ceremony, Atlanta GA</title>
		<link>http://alakija.com/blog/2012/01/24/kemi-rotimi-wedding-ceremony-atlanta-ga/</link>
		<comments>http://alakija.com/blog/2012/01/24/kemi-rotimi-wedding-ceremony-atlanta-ga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve actually been meaning to put this post up for sometime now. I have been just a bit distracted by the other tasks I&#8217;ve had do recently, including the experimental training posts I&#8217;ve posted over the past week or so. Below are images from a recent wedding ceremony I covered in Atlanta, GA. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enhancing a Portrait using a Soft Glow</title>
		<link>http://alakija.com/blog/2012/01/19/enhancing-a-portrait-using-a-soft-glow/</link>
		<comments>http://alakija.com/blog/2012/01/19/enhancing-a-portrait-using-a-soft-glow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This tutorial has been inspired by the NOT so good skin post production a lot of amateur wannabe retouchers and photographers have been presenting of late. I often wonder if these guys use their eyes to see what they are doing or if they are just doing it because it&#8217;s what has become the standard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to get more detail out of your images</title>
		<link>http://alakija.com/blog/2012/01/19/how-to-get-more-detail-out-of-your-images/</link>
		<comments>http://alakija.com/blog/2012/01/19/how-to-get-more-detail-out-of-your-images/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many images out there look so sharp and full of detail. I spend hours behind the camera trying to work out what the best conditions are to get the more amount of detail from my images. I use to often wonder how my fellow photographers did it and in batches of one hundred images. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kemi + Rotimi – Engagement Ceremony, Atlanta, GA</title>
		<link>http://alakija.com/blog/2012/01/10/kemi-rotimi-engagement-ceremony-atlanta-ga/</link>
		<comments>http://alakija.com/blog/2012/01/10/kemi-rotimi-engagement-ceremony-atlanta-ga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m about to head back to London after spending so long in Lagos, Nigeria. I think in one stretch this is the longest time I&#8217;ve ever spent here. It&#8217;s been a very good and fruitful time away from base. I&#8217;ve met some very interesting people and made some very good contacts. I will miss them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aderonke, A portrait</title>
		<link>http://alakija.com/blog/2012/01/02/aderonke-a-portrait/</link>
		<comments>http://alakija.com/blog/2012/01/02/aderonke-a-portrait/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, Happy New Year to all you loyal observers, fans, subscribers, sitters, photographers, curators, supporters, friends and family. This blog has been running successfully for the past 2+ years. Up to this point, Alakija &#38; Co Photography has had so many awesome opportunities and features: from the weddings we have covered, portraits we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dami – A Portrait</title>
		<link>http://alakija.com/blog/2011/11/25/dami-a-portrait/</link>
		<comments>http://alakija.com/blog/2011/11/25/dami-a-portrait/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While spending Thanksgiving with my family in Chicago I had the opportunity of using my brother in laws Nikon D80 camera to do some portraits of my sister in law. Initially I struggled as the functions on the Nikon camera are frustratingly different from that on my usual Canon cameras. I started the shoot lighting [...]]]></description>
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