Today I was shooting author, poet and performer David Jones for his new website ‘Celtic Eclectic’. The brief was for some simple headshots on plain backgrounds that could be used on the website as straight images or as cutouts. I used some simple lighting set-ups to get the images but there’s a lot of character in David’s face and it would have been cool to shoot in some context related environments. Here’s a couple of shots from the session but they really need to be seen large to appreciate the detail in the shots. This has got me thinking about changing the blog theme so that I can put much larger images up.
If you’re an actor or performer in need of headshots, call me on 01924 229800 to discuss your shoot.
A quick press style photo shoot for Simon Wilkes of The Wilkes Group who has just landed a contract with Prince Charles’ privately run company Duchy of Cornwall to supply weter coolers on the Duchy estate. The full story will be in the Wakefield Express but you get a heads up here first
Julia, a professional dance instructor, came to the studio today for some headshots and street dance images for her portfolio. I didn’t realise until she came to the studio that we’d met once before when I did a shoot for Full on Flirt, a speed dating operation at the Stereo bar in Wakefield, where I photographed Julia as she performed salsa dancing for the crowds. Today’s brief was to get some headshots, full body shots and some dance shots depicting street dance and zuma (I’d never heard of that either!) for use in her portfolio and flyers advertising her classes. I also thought it might be an idea to finally use a location I’ve had in mind for ages, but never seemed to get round to shooting, to do some grungy street style images too. So, we had a good day, firstly in the studio then on location and what a location!
Here are a few images and as always, do contact me if you’d like to come over for a portfolio shoot. As you can see, the style can be varied and whatever you want. 01924 229800 is the number you need to call, or just drop me a mail to book.
Got a call from Citigate, a London PR firm, to shoot some images for Santander Bank but unfortunately it wasn’t to be snapping Lewis Hamilton and the F1 team! Instead, I was shooting PR images for the bank for a press release to cover their deal helping local plant hire firm AFI Uplift with their expansion programme. The shoot took place at the AFI premises at the Europort at Normanton where I was tasked with photographing three representatives of Santander and the Financial Director of AFI Uplift. The brief was to get the typical PR shots of the guys shaking hands and closing the deal, however, the chaps wanted none of that, so instead I went more for the ‘power’ group shot with folded arms and all very “Dragon’s Den” like. The difficulty was in getting the huge brand new cherry picker in the frame while keeping the guys as the main subject. Here are a few images from the shoot.
It was a real girlie day in the the studio today - the whole place was awash with diamonds, furs and make-up for the shoot for a local jewellers in Huddersfield. Jodie, who works in the shop, was to be the model for the day and we had a top MUA & stylist Jessie Young who, although sounds like a wild west outlaw, was no cowboy when it came to the make-up! The shoot was to be a mix of high fashion and close-ups of the jewels and the idea is that the pieces being worn in each shot will be photographed individually and then the graphics guys will create brochure pages with each of the pieces blown up big alongside the main fashion image. Here’s a few of the fashion style images we did to be going on with.
Abi dropped by the studio for a professional portfolio shoot today. She’s had a couple of shoots previously with amateur photographers but after not being happy with the results, she decided to take the plunge and go with a pro! Digital photography has made photography available to the masses and there’s lots of ‘guys with cameras’ that will happy to take a few images of you, but in the end, average shots, no matter how they’re processed on the computer, are still average shots! The advantage of shooting with a pro, is that images are correct at the taking stage! I’ve shot with film cameras as well as digital and I have experience in lighting, composition and even posing, so you will definately come away some some awesome images for your portfolio. All these shots of Abi are straight out of the camera with little post processing other than saturation and vignettes added. Abi had a pro make-up artist work on her before she came to the studio and the result of that is obvious too. All in all, it pays to go to a pro :¬) If you’re thinking of a glamour portfolio, just give me a call on 01924 229800 to discuss your requirements or visit the portfolio pages for some more examples.
So, Sarah the make-up artist has arrived, the studio is set up, camera primed and we’re ready to shoot a portfolio but hang on! Where’s the client? Just before the kick-off time, we get a call from her saying that her car has broken down! Aargh! So now what? Sarah’s come all the way from Halifax to do the make-up and I was all fired up for a shoot. Only one thing for it - the girl next door! Kat lives adjacent to the studio and Monday’s are her day off, so we go and fetch her and offer her a free make-over and portrait shoot. Looking slightly nervous but seemingly keen, Kat nipped off to get some gear and came back to the studio and Sarah got to work. We got some great images and I’m sure it was a completely different day to what Kat had planned! Here are a few images - just goes to show what can be achieved when you come for a shoot at VERVEstudio! Why not give us a call on 01924 229800 to book your make-over shoot? You don’t need to be anything more than the ‘girl next door’ :¬)
This evening I was in the studio to shoot Faye Johnson’s fashion collection. The set of three dresses were her unique designs that she was submitting for the final part of her fashion degree and Faye needed some high quality fashionista images to go in her portfolio. The studio seemed full of people all bustling around as we shot the images using two models, Bryony & Emma, and there was just a great sense of fun and pride as the girls strutted their stuff for me as I clicked away. Here’s a video clip of the shoot along with a few stills.
Hit the college again today for the second half of the shoot to mop up on the departments we didn’t get round to on the first shoot. Once again we had a hard day having to nip in and out of classrooms and shoot students and teachers in as little time as possible while trying not to disturb the class too much - some were even sitting exams as we went in! Talk about pressure shooting! Anyway, came away with another 20gb of images to edit through so we must have done something despite the day going by in a blur :¬o
Abi was a bridesmaid at Scott and Amy’s wedding a while back and my friend Jannine whom I shot the wedding with over in Keighley asked if she could bring Abi over to the studio for a bit of a practise session with the studio lighting. So tonight they came over and we also had the company of Sarah Aveyard as MUA who did a great job on the make-up for the shoot. Here’s some footage from the night and a few of the images we did for Abi. If you’d like to book a portrait shoot, just give me a call on 01924 229800 or send me a mail.
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