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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>
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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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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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		<title>Sandra + Tauya – Wedding Ceremony, Marriott Grosvenor Square, London</title>
		<link>http://alakija.com/blog/2011/11/20/sandra-tauya-wedding-ceremony-marriott-grosvenor-square-london/</link>
		<comments>http://alakija.com/blog/2011/11/20/sandra-tauya-wedding-ceremony-marriott-grosvenor-square-london/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 02:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned to the UK yesterday. I’m not in the UK for very long so I decided to put up an early post of a wedding I shot earlier this year. The betrothed couple featured in today&#8217;s images are from Zimbabwe. In the past, I have shot a hybrid of a Zimbabwean/Nigerian/Jamaican/Brazilian wedding but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>londe + olumide – wedding ceremony</title>
		<link>http://alakija.com/blog/2011/11/15/londe-olumide-%e2%80%93-wedding-ceremony-2/</link>
		<comments>http://alakija.com/blog/2011/11/15/londe-olumide-%e2%80%93-wedding-ceremony-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below are images from the Christian wedding of the same couple from the previous post. Again Andrew Esiebo was second shooter in this one and he massively helped me here in providing a second camera body for me to use (after my back up camera developed a fault during the course of the day). Share [...]]]></description>
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