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Agnes Valentine at the Runway Club…

 Gavin   Event, Fashion

Following hot on the heels (litteraly and no apologies for the pun!) of the Omar Mansoor show at Runway, the Dilema girls launched straight into  a second show featuring the amazing Agnes Valentine swimwear by Agnes Cushnie.

This was the second time I’d covered Agnes’ work on behalf of the Dilema Agency, the first being at the Funky Buddha club where just about everything went wrong. Nevertheless, with the lessons from that event being well and truly learned I applied myself to the full for this one.

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The Lady and the Tramp

 Gavin   Behind the scenes, Digital Darkroom, Fashion, Photoshoot, Photoshop, Techniques, Tips, Workflow
Lady and the Tramp
Lady and the Tramp

The Lady and the Tramp was a really fun project to do. I can’t claim credit for the idea though, that must go to the lovely Leanna, the model in this image. The brief was to shoot two images, one with her dressed as a Lady and the other with her as a Tramp, then merge the two together in PhotoShop.

With a little thought, preparation and patience it’s actually very easy to achieve although we weren’t without our difficulties on the day. Most of them environmental funnily enough. Continue reading The Lady and the Tramp »

Photoshoot: Fashion in the City

 Gavin   Fashion, Photoshoot

Some of you may have seen my sneak peek post a few days ago from the “Fashion in the City” shoot I did on the 20th February. We were really lucky with the weather that day, it being the only day we saw the sun in February. The result was a really bright, cloudy day with some warmth in the colour and the air.

This was a group shoot I joined through Model Mayhem. It was a really great day and we had four models and a make-up artist on hand. All four models were fantastic but for me, the star of the day was definitely the Maria the MUA. She did a fantastic job of the make-up and the calm, relaxed way she went about creating each look meant that the models were all fired up and stress free for their shoot. Special thanks should also go to Ian Howard for arranging the event. It was without a doubt the best group shoot I’ve been on.

Here are some of my favourite images from the day…

Jade

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A truly fun event…

 Gavin   Digital Darkroom, Equipment, Event, Photoshoot, Techniques, Tips, Workflow

Had a fun afternoon yesterday covering the Nokia 5k Fun Run in London and all for a good cause too. All the images are available on ovi.com, here: http://share.ovi.com/album/Nokia5k2009.UKLondon5K2009. All mine are tagged with QTPortraits.

091028 Nokia Fun Run-1133Needless to say, I jumped at the chance when asked to take part (on the condition that I didn’t actually have to run anywhere :-)) seeing this as a fantastic opportunity of gaining that all too precious commodity: experience. In hindsight it also proves that Marc Gamble‘s podcast about the Education Spectrum although this could be argued an accident rather than by design.

This was my first attempt at event photography and a real eye opener too. It was also a good excuse to practice some of the techniques that we covered on the Wedding Seminar a couple of weeks ago, both at capture time and in post. I find it quite odd, although hardly surprising, that two distinctly different genres such as Events and Weddings share so much in common.

So what did I learn from the afternoon? Continue reading A truly fun event… »