Tough job being a fashion model. This is actually a fairly typical behind the scenes shot for me. Naomi is modelling the entire House of Nicholas 2012 collection in a single day. Emma (camera right) is touching up her makeup while Marina is putting finishing touches to her hair. In
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Ever get one of "those" emails? As often it came from Nicola at ProposePR. I have a client who needs some high quality images of their product for press and PR use... Sure that shouldn't be a problem. What's the product? A brand new kind of confetti made of only rice... So small colourful
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Weddings are my favourite thing - the joy, the emotion, the people, the details, the adrenaline....But bridal fashion is a very close second. Especially when it is shooting for the amazing Madeline Isaac-James. I photographed her entire 2011 collection last year and yesterday I got a sneak preview of the
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It's always dangerous to leave me alone with ideas. Like Trash the Dress. Of course I've done Trash the Dress shoots before. But they always seemed a little.....tame.So I talked to some friends. And went out and shot this. With a chainsaw.Just to be clear - this was "posed by
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I love this time of year. Or rather, I love this season - because according to my diary the bluebells are nearly 2 weeks early.This was one of those rushed shoots. I was out and about early and went to check one of my favourite spots at 7:30. The bluebells
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I've mentioned before that I run lighting training courses for Lencarta. Whether you got some studio kit for Christmas and want to know how to get the best out of it, are thinking of taking the plunge and investing in some equipment or simply want to get great pictures of
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A couple of weeks ago, the lovely Hayley at Harrogate Wedding Lounge sent me a couple of dresses. They were shop samples that needed replacing and so were surplus to requirements. The rules were pretty simple "take some nice pictures of them - it doesn't matter if they get ruined".So
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It's hard to believe that it's about 6 months since my underwater bridal fashion shoot. At the time I said that "soon" there would be a techie behind the scenes video showing how it was all done.Well things got kind of busy....anyway, here it is. All the behind the scenes
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I won't even tell you about how I missed a photoshoot with Gok Wan due to the snow... Finally made it to the Clothes Show Live yesterday to shoot the Fashion Theatre/Catwalk. Catwalk photography is always a little bit pot luck. The scene is lit for me and it
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Sometimes you just have to trust your clients.I was photographing the 2011 collection for the House of Nicholas. It's mainly bridal (you know, off white dresses) but there are also some coloured wedding dresses, a couple of prom dresses and some mother of the bride outfits. They had chosen Colorama
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