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Zorra
I am one of a lucky few to get my hands on these jumpers made by Zorra a.k.a. @emeraldstarfox so me and Hannah had a walk around Shrewsbury and found this graffiti, so we spent a few minutes shooting on film until we woke up a tramp sleeping just a few yards away. He seemed less surprised than us by this encounter but this is a preview from the shoot. I’ll upload more later (I’v been neglecting the blog)
Taken on a Pentax Spotmatic sp2, super takumar smc 50mm f1.4 most likely on kodak ektar 100.
Whixall
Looks like another continent, strange to think it’s somewhere so close to me and a place I have spent so many hours walking around a few years ago when I lived there. I was a bit worried about the location but things turned out good (as they always do with the team!). Anyway, enough of my ramblings, this is what it turned out.
Farrah
On Sunday I travelled to Solihull to photograph Farrah, it was really good to meet the family (Farrah is sister to Zorra who is going out with my cousin Ben). We had no plans and so just went for a wander around the local area as the sun started to get lower in the sky. I switched my old Super Takumar 50mm f1.4 from my Pentax Spotmatic onto my Nikon D300 and shot into the sun using my hand to block some of the light entering the lens. The old lens may not be optically perfect but I think this adds to the images in a way that newer lenses cannot match. Images are straight out of camera with no editing, shot in RAW then converted to JPEG and uploaded here. Enough rambling—
more pics
A couple more as promised, I dont know if I like them as I think they look too strobist and photoshopped when I didnt use any flash, I think I may try changing the opacity on the layers in a few days and see what I think then.
Little red riding hood
I spent Sunday on two shoots, we hired Stokesay Castle in Shropshire as the venue and also used the woods nearby at Bucknell. This shot is from the woods and is a sneak preview of what the shoot was like. It doesnt give the game away, The outfit underneath is not your standard red riding hood, this ones got attitude!!
I’m looking forward to editing the rest of these soon, there should be some good ones to play with. Once they’re done I’ll get them up on here.
Chloe & Phil
Last weekend I was lucky enough to photograph Chloe & Phils big day. All morning it was raining really hard which was worrying as the reception was to be held in a local vineyard with the photos to be taken outside. Luckily for everyone involved the rain held off for all but a few minutes of very light showers and the day turned into a very nice summers evening. I’m slowly working through the pictures, heres just a preview of a few
single frame of a soon to be panorama
Before the ceremony, Chloe just in her dress
Mr&Mrs P sign
Bouquet
Parents of the bride
Outside the church
The reception guests
summer evenings
Driving back from the Stafford College 2011 fashion show on Thursday night and stopped off at this field on the way back. The light was fading quickly so we spent less than 3 minutes there! Just time to take a quick couple pics as the field is quite nice and I didnt want another year to go pass without any shots in a poppy field.
Just an old pic edited
Having a bit of a good time looking back through recent shoots and picking out pictures that I like that didn’t make the cut to send to the client for one reason or the other (mainly that they don’t show the garment off well). I zoomed in and changed to a landscape format during this shoot for just one frame so I had a portrait to give to the models parent. I think I like it.
Toni & Guy
Heres another sneak preview of the shoot from the other week at Toni & Guy. This is the same model as in the other image further down my blog. All credit goes to the other people involved, my job was easy compared! The difference between the different looks is brilliant.
Heres some links to the twitter feed of the people involved, get following! Concept and creation by Hannah, hair by Stacy and make up by Jules.
Adorabelle womenswear
Yesterday I shot three womenswear dresses on location at the river Severn in Shrewsbury. Whilst I had kind of planned for the models to be spread out throughout the day inevitably there was some overlapping which worked out for the best. I have only edited a handful of pics so far but they all fit well with the brief that was requested for the shoot. Heres a few:
Adorabelle
Between yesterday and today I have had three shoots for Adorabelle, a new label from the midlands. All the children were perfect and made it so easy I was done in just a few minutes…..whoever said never work with children obviously haven’t had the luck that I have had lately! These are just a few quick edits as I only just got back a couple of hours ago. Shot in Shrewsbury and Stafford we were lucky with the weather as these are summer clothes and the rain kept off this afternoon whilst we were out. I have four models wearing the womenswear throughout the day tomorrow so I’m looking forward to being able to direct the models a bit more than you can do with children, I think if you give them too much direction they lose the carefree feeling that the pictures should catch.
Toni & Guy
Here is a sneaky preview of a semi edited shot for our entry into the Toni & Guy lookbook competition 2011. Looking forward to the next one already, learnt a lot on this first shoot as it was very challlenging for me to light the scene as I wanted to so I had to improvise and adapt to the really thin room. I normally like one of my lights to be out to the side by about 6foot but it just wasn’t possible.
Busy!!
I am officially too busy…and so I am blogging :-/ nothing quite like procrastinating.
Sunday I was shooting at Toni & Guy in Shrewsbury for the Toni & Guy lookbook competition and the day before that I was shooting at a friends sons christening. An exam today followed by a 3 presentations and a hand in this week….I can’t see me sleeping too much anytime soon!
Yesterday I used my new backdrops for the first time and was pleasantly surprised with how the images turned out, I had had a quick go with them out in the garden a few days before just to check the backdrops fitted the stands etc. They are 20foot by 10foot so cloth was my only option as I wanted them to be transportable in my little car. Being quite big means I can put more distance between the model and the backdrop thus making it easier to make black backgrounds stay black and to decrease any wrinkles in the backdrop with a large aperture. Not ideal perhaps, but handy if in a rush and all in a package that can be thrown into a rucksack.
I cannot show any of the T&G images yet as we don’t know which ones are being entered yet 
Heres one of the team on the day.
Three peaks
This bank holiday weekend me and a few mates completed the Yorkshire three peaks, we did it in under ten hours complete with a couple of beer stops and stopping to watch the fell runners who were competing in the three peaks race. A few of us are going to compete next year after seeing it. Heres a video one of my friends took from near the top of Whernside, the wind was bad all day but it was horrendous up there making it a real struggle to walk at all.
Time to get back to work now with an exam on the 5th, hand in on the 6th, a christening to photograph on the 7th, a Toni and Guy shoot on the 8th and then an exam on the 9th with a hand in on the 13th!!! Can’t wait till I have time to relax again.
Damselfly
I did a shoot a little while back for Damselfly and have had to wait until the collection was released to show the pictures. The location was in the dairy at Berrington hall, South Shropshire. We arrived early to the dairy so that the heaters could be put on to keep the models warm in the light spring collection. It was hard work shooting in such a confined space as the dairy and required a focal length of around 20-50mm for most shots. I have worked with the models Annie and Grace before and they are impeccably behaved and easy to work with, most adult models cooperate a lot less!!
Here is another screen grab of the website:
Make sure you check it out damselflyboutique.co.uk
Ilya Fisher
Ilya Fisher now has a new website -www.IlyaFisher.com the images are from the shoot I did last month. The shoot was fun, if not hard going seeing as I had dislocated my shoulder less than 48hours previously. The shoot only took a couple of hours as we were in one room and shooting with my studio lights which recycle nice and quickly especially when they are only on low power. Most shots were lit from the large windows on one side of the room and then a softbox on low power pointing at the model from as far away as possible with another light on a higher power through an umbrella and then bounced off the ceiling or opposite wall to broaden the light as much as I could in the room.
Model: Rose Green
Stylist/Director: Elena Garcia
Here is a screen grab of the website
Security troubles…
Todays shoot started off badly when we didn’t manage to make it into the first location which was a semi derelict quarry. We had parked the cars and walked about 50yards when we got collared by security. When I say security I mean a couple of men who looked like they were out of the film the hills have eyes! We were told we had two minutes until we would be locked in so we had to make a quick getaway in the cars, this meant we had to go to our backup location only a few miles away. No security as usual here so I spent a couple of hours exploring and taking pictures for Prototype magazine. The weather was good and after the bad start things turned good. Here are a few unedited outtakes from the day, to see the best ones you’ll need to see the magazine when its out, links will be up here when it its live so check back!
Mothers day
Well I spent yesterday taking photos for Faith Tilleray and then today is mothers day and tomorrow and tuesday are deadline days at uni so I havent had any time for portraits
And as much as I hate pictures of flowers this one does capture perfectly how the weather was this morning as I walked down to the Rocke Cottage Tearoom in the morning sun inbetween heavy showers. I like the lens flare from the old Super Takumar 50mm. This was shot at f2.8.
Back to uni work for me..
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