Showing posts with label FASHION. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FASHION. Show all posts
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Thursday, 10 September 2015
LFW SS16
London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2016. Saatchi Gallery. London. Shot September 2015.
I was given some tickets last autumn, supplied by Canon UK and provided by Clifton Cameras, to go and shoot in the photographer's pit for two runway shows in the Saatchi Gallery. The first runway was for fashion company, Very Exclusive & the second was for designer ISSA. I had a brilliant time! Apart from shooting at the Cardiff fashion graduate show, I had no real knowledge of shooting runways, so it was incredibly exciting to immerse myself in the whole experience!
The experience being that there were 40-or-so photographers all squished onto a small, three step apparatus at the end of the catwalk, with no air conditioning. Fortunately, I managed to grab myself a spot right at the very front of the group, sat on the floor - Couldn't have gotten a more perfect position if I'd tried! Thoroughly enjoyed myself!
Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Sara-Wyn Watkins
CLICK HERE for the full shoot.
The lookbook shoot I was recently commissioned to do by designer Sara-Wyn Watkins.
Model: Zoe Groves Makeup/Hair: Emily Porter
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Minimal
CLICK HERE for the full shoot.
This model, incidentally, happened to be the model I used in my first ever 'fashion' shoot back in October 2010. It's amazing to see the change in both photography and model!
The shoot was a culmination of the model's personal style and my love for Minimalism.
Check out her links:
Monday, 2 February 2015
The Wanderer (Electric Eyes)
Model was used previously in THIS shoot.
I subtitled the post Electric Eyes, for he model's amazingly bight aqua eyes.
This shoot is rather special, because its a combination of three things that I'd never tried before: Manual settings, a Canon 7D body & smoke bombs.
Yep, thats right. Before this shoot, I'd never before used the manual settings on my camera. My brain isn't exactly attuned to maths, or in fact... numbers. So, no matter how many people tried to teach me about amount of aperture vs amount of shutter speed, I just couldn't get it into my head. However, since acquiring a 7D camera that I was lent to use over the holidays, I began experimenting. Now, I finally seem to be getting the hang of it. Before I had only ever used aperture priority (AV) and simply stayed on 1.8. Always. Now, however... I did the entire shoot on manual!
Ha-lle-lu-jah!
So, smoke bombs.
I'd seen smoke bombs used in photography before and thought it looked pretty cool. So, I acquired myself some different colours and waited a year or two until finding a chance to use them. I took some blue pellets and we were initially going to use them outside, but the lighter wouldn't light. So, we tried lighting them inside, then taking them outside. The smoke was too close to the ground and nowhere near the model. So, I decided that we use them in my room, where we'd already been shooting. I quickly learnt that: the smoke expired very quickly, the pellet got VERY hot and would melt something if not on the right surface and also, it stained my hands blue.
So, we went back into my room and I shut all doors and windows. The model sat, I made sure the settings were right, then placed the pellet next to the model. For the first three seconds it seemed to work, but then the smoke thickened and I couldn't see. Then the model started coughing. Then I started coughing. When the smoke had cleared a little, the model's eyes were too watery and it was getting hard to breathe, so we had to open the window.
The moral of the story is: For pete's sake, get an assistant to do it for you & don't kill your model!
Sunday, 9 November 2014
Monday, 13 October 2014
Style Profile: Bala Swan Piti (Part One)
I had been wanting to do another Style Profile for a while (CLICK HERE for the last profile) and thought, who better to profile, than my lovely model Bala Swan Piti! Her style is aways changing and thus, is always fantastic! Part One will be showing portraits and tops, whilst Part Two shall be showing full outfits.
During the shoot, I asked Bala a couple of questions about her fashion sense:
How would you describe your style?
Hmm... Clean, minimal and casual!
Who were your clothes originally inspired by?
There are a few girls on Instagram who's style I love, such as Monicamoraru, Feralcreature, Alyyyssalauu and Biancavenerayan! Really love the style shoots from American Apparel, Zara and Whistles too!
Best places to shop?
Favorite Designers?
Fashion magazines?
Music Type?
Hip-hop, R&B and Alternative.
Check out Bala Swan Piti's Links:
Keep an eye-out for Part Two, where I'll be posting full-body outfits!
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