Went out location scouting a couple of days ago and looked up this old abandoned church. I know its a cliche but this would make a great set for a gothic or ghosting shoot or even a band promo.
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This is something a little bit different: I’ve been given the opportunity to arrange a group shoot in a hot tub showroom. They have dry and wet tubs available and an elevated shooting position from either a spiral staircase or a balcony, looking down into a couple of the dry tubs. Some of them are fitted with mood lights with rotating colours and the wet tub also has an awesome sound system built in. The images after the jump are snaps I took today using a point and shoot when I visited them.
I have a studio booked for Saturday 16th July in North London and I’m looking for an additional Burly performer to join the team. It will be a vintage style pinup shoot and really great fun so would be a ideal for anyone in need of enhancing their portfolio or creating promo images.
If you’re interested, please contact me for more details.
Had the privilege of photographing the lovely alternative model, Nina Kate a few days ago. The theme was to be a bike garage so we built an oily set in the studio to, the centre piece being a very large and very expensive matte black motorbike. I don’t know anything about bikes and there were no badges on it so don’t ask me what it was. I have absolutely no idea.
The lighting on the set was very straightforward. Mainly just a big octabank softbox on a Profoto head an a little separation light on the background. The set being very dark didn’t need much and anythng more would have been overkill.
My biggest fear on this set was contrast. The set was very dark being predominantly a black and muted silver pallette and Nina has very, very pale skin. An incident meter reading did the trick as always though and I think the results came out OK.
I’ve only posted the one image here – to see the remainder of this set you’ll have to pay a visit to my main website, http://gavinthorn.com/news/bike-garage-nina-kate/
I don’t very often get a behind the scenes shot of me in action so I was extremely grateful to Debbie for snapping this shot (left) of me a few days ago when I shot DJ Ande Dilema for the cover of her new CD. The shot to the right is what I took with the camera at roughly the same time.
I find I’ve been doing a lot of studio work recently and its great to be out of the cold weather and really good fun too. Have to say, you can’t beat working in a professional fashion studio like this. The versatility of the white cove is amazing and with a little bit of thought and planning it can be taken from pure white (as above) down to almost black.
The best part though is that having made some great contacts in the industry I am now able to extend my range of services to include studio sessions. Virtually everything from model experience days to model/session stylist portfolio work to fashion and look books to bands and CD covers. More info about this coming soon to my main site, http://gavinthorn.com
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