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!
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
Directors and teenagers! – Aston Martin 6th July 2011
I had the great pleasure of attending Aston Martin’s head office earlier this week. I photographed two of director’s of Aston Martin…no pressure there then! CEO of Aston Martin Dr Ulrich Bez is a pro when it comes to posing for photographs and along with The Times and Bloomberg Magazine photographers I managed to elbow my way in to shoot the portraits outside of head office in Gaydon. The sun was in and out as is the case at the moment, so I used a mixture of flash, no flash and reflected light. Following on from Dr Bez, the CFO Hanno Kirner stepped in to his portrait taken, he’s a very tall man so I was on my tip toes photographing him! Dave was shooting some lovely fly on the wall imagery with a slightly different take on what was going on.
Along with a few lovely cars to work with including the new Virage we went on to document a group of 40 17 year olds looking at applying to do engineering at Warwick University. They were truly spoilt with a factory tour, head of design presentation and a sneak peak of the One 77 building. What a day out for them!
Aston Martin Magazine, Summer Issue 2011
We now have the long awaited publication of the summer issue of the Aston Martin Magazine. We wouldn’t usually get this excited about but this particular issue does contain a 5 page spread featuring a nice selection of imagery shot during our time on the UK launch of the new Aston Martin Cygnet. We were sending images out all the time during our work on this commission so it’s nice to finally see some of the work in print going out to the masses.
To add further to the excitement (I’m not sure if we’re supposed to be that excited about it!) but it is the small things that count! Another story on the Bonhams Auction held on the 21st May features a further collection of imagery Helen shot not long after the launch. We do love a published piece or two!
For more information on this project and to see what we were photographing follow this link.
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