Flloyd's Fashion Shoot... Tweed at the Manor...

Not been posting for a while so I thought I'd get back on it with a cracker. These images are from my first ever fashion shoot, my good friend Flloyd's Fashion Design BA final major project. A small selection to wet the appetite for the up and coming book.

Shot using flash fill in daylight, never having used this techniques before, I was a little perturbed (especially as I hadn't told Flloyd that this was not only the first time for the technique, but my first fashion full stop...). All went swimmingly thankfully and with a lot of help from some talented models, a top makeup artist and my ever present partner in photographic crime, Mr. Jay Hawley, all of whom gave up a sunny Saturday in the middle of deadline time, I'm pretty God damn happy with the result. Not my cup of tea artistically speaking but a fine addition to the portfolio and some good lessons learned.

Enjoy.

Book Project Portraits No.s 6 & 7.

Book Project No. 5

Book Project No's 1 - 4...

Kinky by name, kinky by nature.

A sunny afternoon, an abandoned house and a wired model.... not as sinister as it sounds....

I recently found a spare role of 120 film left over from one of last term's projects, tucked away at the back of my random tat drawer. As I seem to be in a really pleasant period of frenetic creativity at the minute, I couldn't stand to spend the weekend without making something. Borrowing my trusty comrade's vintage medium format camera and ensnaring another poor soul, on the tail end of a two day bender, into modeling for me, I set off to a local abandoned property.

These images were shot 6x6 on an old Yashica-Mat TLR. The film stock is Ilford FP4 Plus but it was push processed by around a stop and a half in order to create a certain amount of contrast compression. This little selection were all light metered by eye (probably the thing that I am most proud of) and are lit entirely with available light; no flash fills or reflectors.

Much love and gratitude to my friend Kinky for coming out to do this.

Possibly THE SICKEST remix of all time! Not a clue who it's by. Enjoy.

Lighting Techniques

These little beauties are the result of a couple of collaborations between myself and the soon to be well known, Mr. James Hawley - check out his blog if you haven't already. Sadly I cannot claim these images as my own, the composition, framing and any post production are the product of Jay's skills; the lighting, however, is most certainly mine. The first two images are from a shoot done specifically for a Uni brief that Jay and I are currently undertaking, the second two are the result of a somewhat serendipitous event as unbeknown to either of us, we both answered an advert from a Spanish Guitar student from the Leeds College of Music, looking for promotional material. I have included these two sets as an example of two very different lighting set-ups that I am becoming familiar with. Enjoy.