I had the great pleasure at the end of February of covering the LFW Fashion Mavericks shows at the Strand Palace Hotel. And loved every minute of it too.
The event itself featured the autumn/winter collections of seven designers that should be on everybodies watch list – Enya Patricia, Kiki Kamanu, Hamra Alam, Susana Bettencourt (featured at the top of this post), Obscure Couture, Sarahi House of Fashion and Fabryan.
More images after the jump… Continue reading LFW Fashion Mavericks »
Had a really cool shoot on Saturday with Jess, a vocalist and guitarist at the ACM in Guildford. She really wanted to go for something derelict and distressed and we chose this derelict factory at Godalming. The images work really well and the light was perfect on the day.
It’s always great to see the final image at work. None more so than this one which I shot for the Drones towards the end of last year. Very cold day, just before that huge dump of snow we had. We were fortunate enough to be working inside for this one. Thankfully.
The band did a great job of turning the original image into this poster. If you’ve not come across them before, it’s well worth checking them out here: http://www.myspace.com/dronesuk
This was another outing for Big Mamma (aka the Westcott Apollo 50″ softbox). Did a great job of lighting the interior of the building too. Absolutely cannot get enough of this modifier. More shots from this shoot here: https://theLightMatters.com/?p=906
Very fortunate today to receive a lovely email from the SWPP informing me that my recent submission was sufficient for me to be given my Licentiate.
What does this mean? Quite simply, I can now put LSWPP after my name and now work towards becoming an associate member. The images will also be published in a future edition of Professional Image Maker.
Hit the jump to see larger versions of the images I submitted…
I was asked to do a portfolio shoot for Helga (featured here) the other day, but to produce something a little edgier and with some striking black and white images. As to whether I achievedit or not, I’ll let you be the judge.
We were going to be working in a office over in Docklands, not too far from the Excell Centre, and thankfully we were also going to be inside. Given the extreme weather we have been having of late, this was very welcome.
After a quick scout around the building we settled on the breakout room on th groundfloor as our makeshift studio. It was nothing special, just a semi-large room with a few chairs a couple of tables and a pool table. This at first appeared to present a few possibilities as we were going to be doing lingerie but the biggest advantage was the empty room opposite we could use as an impromptu salon.
The problems to solve were that the white painted walls were not very interesting and full length shots were going to be difficult owing to the nasty grey carpet. This shoot was going to be controlled by the lighting if it was going to offer up any images of note. When we first started out, it had all the hallmarks of being an outright failure. Continue reading Adding a little edge…? »
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