Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Inspired 02: The Dress


Second installment of my new set of blog posts showcasing some inspiring images I've found over the last week. Todays theme is the dress. I found lots of wonderful images featuring beautiful dresses while hunting for reference photos for a shoot. 
Hopefully these will inspire you too!
Please show the artists some love if you get a minute
Enjoy




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Sunday, 15 May 2011

Inspired 01 : Ballet

Here is the first installment of my new set of blog posts showcasing some inspiring images I've found over the last week. Todays theme is ballet.
Hopefully they will inspire you too!
Show the artists some love if you get a minute 


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Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Pole Art - what would you like to see next?

I have a number of image ideas for the Pole Art series but I wanted to ask you what you thought about them.

I don't want all the photos to look the same so I've been trying to think of new perspectives/colours/outfits to shoot but what I really want to know is what do you think?

  • Are there any particular camera angles you prefer/think work best?
  • Any colour backdrops/background textures you'd like to see?
  • Any particular style of outfit?
  • Which is your favourite image so far and why?
  • Or maybe there are some moves you'd like to see?

Any other elements you would like to see, perhaps executed differently or to have a completely new idea tried, do let me know as I'd love to hear about what you'd like to see.

The images in the Pole Art series can be viewed here

All I will say is that I want to keep the feel of the image stays true to the whole idea of Pole Art (i.e. to show the artistry of it and to show strength/flexibility/grace/dignity) I'm more than happy to try any ideas you come up with. I'd really appreciate your input

Thank you

:heart:

h:e



p.s. I will try and get another model sometime; it's just hard as I don't really know any other polers so I just have to make do with modeling myself :giggle:
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Saturday, 9 April 2011

Summer time assisting

Well haven't we had a glorious couple of days here in the UK. Everyone is feeling more positive and the sun is blazing... It's days like today that make me wish I liked Pimms

New things are happening; I've been assisting a lot recently, which has been great fun. I've been getting up at 5AM, driving to London (2 hours... if I'm lucky), working for 12 hours, driving home (2 hours.... again if I'm lucky), getting back late, having 4 hours sleep and then doing it all again the next day. Despite very long days, lots of heavy lifting on shoots and coming home feeling like I've been working on site, what I have learnt so far has been invaluable and I can safely say I'm really looking forward to the other assisting jobs I have lined up. You don't realise how much you have to learn until you work with other people who are at a stage in their career that you want to be in. Not only have I picked up lots of industry tips and tricks, I've also met some wonderful people. It's hugely refreshing to finally be out meeting people on a day to day basis that share the same passion and interests.

I actually wrote an article about photographic assisting for photography magazine Photo Pro, if anyone's interested it is in the March 2011 issue and I believe back issues of the magazine are available from their website (http://www.photopromagazine.com/) if you wanted to have a read.

It looks like this:


I've also started doing fashion shoots on location and have been working with natural light. I felt it was time to get away form the comfort of studio lighting that I have become familiar with and take a step outside my comfort zone. I'm going through the rest of the photos from the shoot so I'll have a few up here asap along with some behind the scenes from the shoot
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Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Starting Over, What's new & working with a very famous supermodel....

I've decided to start over with this blogging business. I will try to keep posts short, sweet and to the point. Posts will be filled with lots of photos for you to feast your eyes upon, such as new work, behind the scenes, the work of others that I find inspiring and want to share etc etc. I fought the temptation to get a Tumblr account and decided to take the plunge, delete old posts on here and start a fresh, in the hope that someone might want to read it! Ha. (By the way I'd love to hear from anyone who uses both Blogger and Tumblr; which one do you prefer/why, pros/cons? etc)

So let us begin; I started assisting professional photographers at the very end of last year to further my knowledge about photography as a whole, learn a lot and generally be immersed in the industry as much as I can. I assisted on a shoot last week and the model was no other than... wait for it............ Kate Moss :o She was very polite, very nice and having been given the opportunity to see her do her thing in the flesh was really something special. Now I know why she has been (and still is) at the top of her game for the best part of 20 years. I don't know if I'm allowed to say what it's for but I won't yet, just to be on the safe side. I'll be sure to let you now what the shoot was for when it's out though so keep your eyes peeled

I've been focussing on beauty shoots lately after purchasing some new lighting equipment (a beauty dish in case you were wondering). I even went as far as doing a self portrait on a friday night, even when everyone else was out socialising because I couldn't wait to try it out.



A series titled 'Wigilicious' with the beautiful Chloe Alexandra (www.modelmayhem.com/cloalexandra). Sadly our makeup artist was ill and couldn't make it so Chloe and I decided to just mess around with some props form my never ending prop box. Here are the results:

'Heartz'



'Cousin It'

'Wigilicious'



Self Portrait - 'Viva':



Latest Pole Art image - 'Pole Art - Iguana Mount':




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