Saturday 25 August 2012
Sunday 12 August 2012
New Model Shoot
A model I have worked with in the past, put a call out for a photographer to some new beauty shots for her portfolio, she hinted at a sort of goth look, on a TF basis.
This sounded interesting to me so I gave her a call and offered my services.
While talking over the shoot it appeared quite strait forward. Mainly head and shoulder shots, with some half length. The model, Stephanie, had some dreadlocks put in her hair and wanted to get some shots of her new look.
I love working with this model, she is a very intelligent and unassuming girl, with eyes like a young Elizabeth Tailor. Most of her past work has been of the fetish/heavy goth type, but I think she is waisting her talents and should concentrate more on tthe beatuy side of things, with some goth/heavy metal influence.
My daughter Lucy assisted me in this shoot, and took some of the images herself, and we got down to the task.
I opted to shoot against a green screen, something I am doing more and more of lately, which would give me the choice of dropping in verious backgrounds as I saw fit.
I went for a very pale complexion, set against her dark dreadlocks and dark lipstick.
I think that with some prior planning I would have got more silver jewelry into the shoot, but that will be for another time.
I am happy with the shoot and the shots produced, what do you think.
This sounded interesting to me so I gave her a call and offered my services.
While talking over the shoot it appeared quite strait forward. Mainly head and shoulder shots, with some half length. The model, Stephanie, had some dreadlocks put in her hair and wanted to get some shots of her new look.
I love working with this model, she is a very intelligent and unassuming girl, with eyes like a young Elizabeth Tailor. Most of her past work has been of the fetish/heavy goth type, but I think she is waisting her talents and should concentrate more on tthe beatuy side of things, with some goth/heavy metal influence.
My daughter Lucy assisted me in this shoot, and took some of the images herself, and we got down to the task.
I opted to shoot against a green screen, something I am doing more and more of lately, which would give me the choice of dropping in verious backgrounds as I saw fit.
I went for a very pale complexion, set against her dark dreadlocks and dark lipstick.
I think that with some prior planning I would have got more silver jewelry into the shoot, but that will be for another time.
I am happy with the shoot and the shots produced, what do you think.
Ozzy the Boxer Dog Photo Shoot
While out with my wife and daughter the other week I noticed this gorgeous white boxer puppy with a young couple. We asked if we could pet the dog and we all fell in love with him instantly.
We learned that Ozzy, that was the name of the dog, was still a puppy and his owners doted on him. On a whim I offered the young couple a free photo shoot of their dog, offering them a disc of the selected images from the shoot for free.
Two weeks later Ozzy and his owners arrived at my home studio for the shoot, Ozzy was very excited and promptly thew up on my lounge floor. No problem there as we are prepared for the little surprises our animal clients sometime leave us.
The young couple with Ozzy were planning their wedding for next year and wanted to talk to me about that as well, so there was some delay for Ozzy while we chatted. My cat, a ginger tom called Marmalade, squared up to Ozzy and made it quite plain who was the master of this home, which probably went some way to causing Ozzy to throw up like he did.
Once we entered my studio Ozzy just wanted to play and we had the devils own job trying to get him in the lighting zone. Every time I laid out on the floor to get the shots he was all over me and my daughter, who was assisting me.
It was so important to get him in the right place as he is white and I had to be very careful not to over expose.
Some 40 minutes later the shoot was over. We had great fun doing it, they were not the best lite of composed shots, many were sent to the trash can, but the ones we kept were nice, what do you think.
We learned that Ozzy, that was the name of the dog, was still a puppy and his owners doted on him. On a whim I offered the young couple a free photo shoot of their dog, offering them a disc of the selected images from the shoot for free.
Two weeks later Ozzy and his owners arrived at my home studio for the shoot, Ozzy was very excited and promptly thew up on my lounge floor. No problem there as we are prepared for the little surprises our animal clients sometime leave us.
The young couple with Ozzy were planning their wedding for next year and wanted to talk to me about that as well, so there was some delay for Ozzy while we chatted. My cat, a ginger tom called Marmalade, squared up to Ozzy and made it quite plain who was the master of this home, which probably went some way to causing Ozzy to throw up like he did.
Once we entered my studio Ozzy just wanted to play and we had the devils own job trying to get him in the lighting zone. Every time I laid out on the floor to get the shots he was all over me and my daughter, who was assisting me.
It was so important to get him in the right place as he is white and I had to be very careful not to over expose.
Some 40 minutes later the shoot was over. We had great fun doing it, they were not the best lite of composed shots, many were sent to the trash can, but the ones we kept were nice, what do you think.
Sunday 5 August 2012
To be a wedding guest
I recently attended the wedding of my wonderful niece and it was one of the first weddings I have been to in several years, where I was a guest and had no pressure on me at all to take photos. As you may suspect I still took my camera and 2 lenses, just to snap away with and have some fun.
The temptation to get the camera working started out very strong, but once the official photographer arrived I surprisingly found it very easy. After all the weddings i have attended where I have had to deal with guest photographers getting in the way, I was determined that this was not going to happen as a result of my activity.
So I deliberately put the camera away, while the official photographer was working and only brought it out when there was a lull in activity and even then I only used it to capture candid shots.
I loved watching another photographer at work, giving me the time to watch how he conducted himself and worked the crowed. I took away several practices that I will adapt and employ in my working practice.
On top of all that I was able to fully participate in the day and enjoyed myself greatly.
The temptation to get the camera working started out very strong, but once the official photographer arrived I surprisingly found it very easy. After all the weddings i have attended where I have had to deal with guest photographers getting in the way, I was determined that this was not going to happen as a result of my activity.
So I deliberately put the camera away, while the official photographer was working and only brought it out when there was a lull in activity and even then I only used it to capture candid shots.
I loved watching another photographer at work, giving me the time to watch how he conducted himself and worked the crowed. I took away several practices that I will adapt and employ in my working practice.
On top of all that I was able to fully participate in the day and enjoyed myself greatly.
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