A little while ago I worked with Rampant Sporting on the summer photo shoot for their 2011 Autumn Winter Collection. We had top models from Storm and Select to work with whose brief was to let loose and be Rampant!! The brand is evolving and about to move closer to their good friends Joules in Market Harborough. It was a high energy shoot and great fun to work with the Rampant team. Their catalogue will be available soon via their website and you can now visit one of their many upcoming stores!
Yesterday I worked with Janine from Oxygen Model Management and Jessica Nurse Make-up artist in order to fulfill my aims of shooting some fashion and beauty work for my portfolio. Obviously it wasn’t a planned return to the UK but after working and saving the pennies I’ve managed to dedicate some time to personal work and shoot some stuff for my portfolio. My last shoot was yesterday and I mostly shot with the Leica M9 which has been a real delight to work with in terms of shooting fashion. I’ve always loved the depth of field and colour saturation on this wonderful camera and so to have it performed through fashion is a nice little bonus!
Yesterdays shoot was all on location at my friends house in Leicester – thanks so much to Abi for letting me shoot in her new home!! Janine is a gorgeous red-head with a freckly pale complexion so we wanted to emphasise this as much as possible for the first few shots. Later on taking inspiration from the cover of the most recent edition of Papercut Magazine we went heavy on the eyes and asked Janine to be a little more aggressive in her poses. So from soft to hard we took the shoot through a little story in Abi’s home ending outside in the garden with wet green leaves all around. This was also the first shoot I have fully styled in a while mixing in quite a few vintage pieces I have accumulated over time! I loved it!
The finished shoot will soon feature in my fashion portfolio! So that’s it now from me for a while, although I hope to be blogging more on my own site as well as dedicating my time to Notworkrelated. I hope to be shooting a little bit of fashion and portraiture along the way!
Model: Janine @Oxygen Model Management
Hair and Make-up: Jessica Nurse
Styling: Helen Roscoe
It has been quite rewarding coming home for a few months not just in an emotional and physical way but also to simply appreciate the beauty that surround the house I grew up in! At around 9pm every night the sun drops and burns a vibrant orange filling out shadows and space in and around my home. This is the time of day I should take advantage of for some of my fashion and portraiture, but last night I was trying to finish an edit and kept getting distracted by the light, so I explored the house and looked out through windows and captured the mood as it was at 9pm.
Shot with Leica M9 and Leica 50m f2.0 summicron lens, post-produced in Lightroom
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