One of my favourite shots from the shoot was printed quite large on the contents page - so I am smiley - the more the better!
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I just posted this new shoot for The Pulse magazine onto my website. Click on the photo to go see it.
The theme is festival fashion, and it was a rare studio shoot for the magazine.
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This shot caused a big reaction on facebook when I previewed it recently, with more ‘likes’ than any other photo I have posted.
It’s a shot of the beautiful and powerful dancer Jo Richards. I used dramatic lighting to isolate certain parts of the shot and render the rest black. Jo’s great pose has added the rest of the drama required to pull off the shot.
Click on the photo to go see more of my work!
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Vogue Bans Skinny Models →
There have been constant rumblings about this issue in the past, and even law changes in Israel (see further down this blog), but this stance by a clutch of Vogue editors is a true line in the sand. No more unhealthy eating practises (where visible) will be tolerated and no thin models. They are even shining a torch on the designers and want them to stop creating super-small sample size garments.
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Modelling Legends! →
Check out these interviews and some of the photos from Carmen D’ell Orefice, Pat Cleveland and Estelle Lefebure.
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CRUISING ALONG
Here’s a link to my latest fashion shoot for The Pulse mag. We got seriously lucky with the shoot falling right in the middle of that summer-esque week, giving me glorious light and blue skies to work with.
Charlotte Turner (Model Team) is one of my favourite models and was especially good at clambering all over the barge while it was moving - it must be her Antipodean roots.
The team did an amazing job and it was such a wonderful time cruising about on the river. I did manage to get off the barge and up onto a bridge at one stage for the shoot’s most iconic shot (IMO) - click on the photo to see the other photos.
Massive thanks to Rachel at The Bridge Inn, Ratho for allowing us to enjoy their barge, which is available for anyone to hire http://www.bridgeinn.com/
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OOOH! I am excited by my nomination for Scottish Fashion Photographer of the Year.
It’s going to be a huge show in Glasgow on June 11th, and I will be sharing lots more info on the awards in the run up, including who the judges are, who has been nominated and any other goss I manage to get my hands on!
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Head on over to my website BELOW and click on the Spectrum March 25th link to see this shoot in full.
Shot at Dobbies Butterfly World, with Catriona Appollinari and Nina Nesbitt (pictured) from Colours Agency
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NOTHING BY HALF!! →
You wouldn’t expect Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel to do anything by half, but the scale of this show is just huge and I love the theme and set design too.
I take it models smiling isn’t ‘in’ this year then!
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RUMOUR MILL
Looks like I will be getting published again next Sunday. Keep an eye out for Scotland on Sunday’s magazine Spectrum with a truly beautiful fashion shoot we shot just before Xmas.
I love seeing my photos in print, so much better than looking at them on the computer!
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MY BIG FAT 2011
I’m not quite sure how I managed to fit all this into 2011, but the date on the camera never lies. Can I just pass on huge thanks to everyone who has helped me this year. With your help I have achieved what I set out to achieve, I reached my goals.
My New Year’s resolution is to build on all this and keep improving and keep learning and above all work with the very best people to pursue my passion for taking striking, memorable images.
To see more of these shoots, pop on over to my website HERE
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Vogue Fashion Week Offers →
Check out the link above for all the offers on the final day of Vogue’s innovative Online Fashion Week. All the designers are also giving money to charity, so it is fantastic on all levels.
To have a chance of winning a designer handbag, see if you can find the word Vogue on Dominique Mosleys website (scroll down the Vogue page I have provided the link for to find the competition), you are more patient than me if you find it!
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H+M blooper? →
Opps, I posted this on my wedding blog initially - maybe not relevant I am thinking!
H+M are big supporters of us Photographers and real-life models, all you need to do is wander round their stores or website to see that.
However, if this is legit, I hope that they have a rethink and only use real life models for things like this. What do you think, Let me know!
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Online Fashion Week →
Vogue are hosting an all electronic fashion week, starting at 9am today! Check out the link for updates as to what’s happening where!
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PSD MODEL SCHOOL #3 The eyes have it!
Look at the photo above. What grabs your attention about it? That’s three of Brightside Model Agency’s girls, in a photo I love! Shot with a very simple lighting setup in Sublime Hair Design. Hair by Lesley Moses and clothes by Totty Rocks - two of my favourite girls after they hand-made me a gorgeous shirt (I’ll post a photo of yours truly sporting it when I get a chance!)
Now look at the photo in the post below, what draws your attention first?
OK, so Emily Jones - Superior Model Management - is wielding a knife, that would grab my attention pretty quickly. But really the first thing we all look at is her eyes! Same with the photo above. And in each case here they are all full of life, all telling a story.
When I have a shot that is perfect in every way, except d’oh!, the model has their eyes shut, then I need to transplant eyes from a similar shot, where she had them open. What I quickly realised was that the tiniest imperfection in my technique would be obvious a mile away, even when the photo is small on my mac screen. That taught me how sensitive we all are to each others eyes. And we’ve all been told to maintain eye contact with people when wanting to appear interested in what they are saying, right?
And who doesn’t know about Tyra Banks’ famous ‘sm-eyezing’ - smiling with your eyes.
I’m sure there are many more reasons that we love looking at eyes, but when I am working with models I always try to give them an emotion or character to play as that helps to think about how they should be feeling. But with or without that guidance, nothing kills a shot quicker than dead eyes, so really it is up to you models to come prepared to let a story burst through your eyes. Whenever you are practising posing, you need to make sure you get some powerful eye looks polished up as well.
Some of the most common things you will be asked to portray will be: anger, intensity, power/superiority, kindness, warmth, love, happiness, flirty, sexy.
It all fits in with the acting theme from my #1 class below. But next time you are on set, be prepared to work those eyes along with the rest of your body and give me a headache because there are too many good shots!
