Hello there!
Something pretty cool is happening at Notworkrelated at the moment! We have launched a one week competition enabling one lucky winner to enter a prize draw on twitter for one of you to win our first print from our travels in Japan.
All you have to do is follow this link to our website and so long as you’re on twitter you’ll be in with a chance to win!
Good luck!
Grand Prize (1 winner):
- A photographic print on Fuji Crystal Archive paper with a semi-matt finish. Here is the print that you can win…
Dave and I have just posted a blog on our website offering a few helpful tips for travel! Having been back for a few months or so now we’ve been able to stock of what we’ve been photographing all those months away and really start to home in on the photographs we think we would like to work on further.
You always pick up tips along the way, so why not do a few blog posts about them? Hope you like it and it may give you a little bit of a taste as to the things we had to think about in order to make our travels run smoothly!
At the beginning of May we photographed the wedding of two very dear friends of ours Sara and Paul. Not a massively conventional wedding, set at The Bingham Hotel in Richmond, a lovely part of London and with only 30 guests we managed to capture their intimate day from the pre-wedding nerves to a cool little shoot around the area next to the Thames. We don’t do this kind of thing very often but it was great to do and have since heard that they are very happy with the images indeed! Sara wore a cocktail dress, very Spanish in style with a twist of Moroccan, whilst Paul played in cool in a tailor fit blue suit. Considering they threw it all together within the space of a few months it was a very contemporary and ‘Swedishly’ stylish wedding. As we were also guests it mean’t we could dress up for the day too, this is perhaps the most summery dress I’ve worn whilst photographing a wedding, good job the sun stayed out! We also tested the new Carl Zeiss 18mm lens which is proving to be quite a favourite with us both!
Copyright for all imagery belongs to Helen Roscoe and David Rutter. Photographs were shot using Nikon D700 24-70 f.28 lens and Leica M9 50m and 18m lens, post-production was done using Adobe Lightroom.
May has been a really busy month! I Couldn’t quite believe it when I got the gig to photograph the launch of the new Aston Martin Cygnet city car in London for 2 weeks…and to have the added bonus of bringing in Dave onto the brief!
So for the past fortnight we’ve both had the pleasure of capturing and documenting the lifestyle that is Aston Martin in the city. Along with lifestyle journalists and car enthusiasts we’ve taken to the streets and driven historic routes around London, passed famous landmarks and have eaten (and photographed!) at some of London’s great restaurants and tea houses. Not all a party though it may seem this way! The purpose of us being there was to create imagery for their in house publications along with providing photography for the articles that will be written about this cool little car. I guess we wanted to offer something different photography wise as the Cygnet is very different indeed from anything Aston Martin have ever produced.
We’ve worked alongside automotive photographer Dominic Fraser, with all of his knowledge and banter, alongside we had the Aston Martin marketing and brand communications team who were fantastic to work with…and then we had the tech team who spent many hours preparing the cars every day for the shoot. A wonderful perk to the brief was being driven around in an Aston Martin Rapide – a car worth somewhere in the realms of £120,000!! The drivers showed us a little of what they are able to do and sound like too! Oh and it was the absolute most pleasure to be able to photograph the very handsome model who is David Gandy, not just once but twice…well we were all pretty pleased about that one.
Below are a few highlights taken from the gig and what we shot along the way. This is the first professional collaboration Dave and I have worked on together, with his design knowledge working hand in hand with creating new imagery. Something that is Notwork is now becoming Itswork and we look forward to developing this brand. We’ve started a twitter feed for this project and you can follow us here if you like!
Many thanks and happy viewing!
Whilst the other journalists took off with their Polaroid cameras I managed to do some of the route with Hannah from the Press garage, who decided to step in their shoes for the morning and took a few snaps herself! The Conran Shop in Chelsea really does house some bespoke furniture finds. I’m not so sure spending £10,000 on a sofa is anything I’d like to do, however I did love the bath section and you can get some really unique contemporary and vintage style gifts for the home. The wool-knitted wall clock definitely did it for me! The Conran Classic 54 Collection is also a real highlight and the production of their catalogue for this collection is really well done – quite inspiring!
Photography for the Conran Classic 54 Collection was done by Julian Broad.
Above is Hannah and myself getting ready for the next stint of the drive around London.
The Bluebird Cafe in London was a fantastic venue to start to the day with all the Cygnet’s parked up on the outside courtyard.
The Cygnet parked up next to Scentevent wonderful florist located next to The Conran Shop.
We loved using the new 18mm Carl Zeiss lens on the Leica.
Hackett were involved in the launch also, offering a Tailor Fit experience with Jeremy Hackett himself! The cars drew lots of attention throughout London as we parked up.
Okay okay, so David Gandy joined us on more than one occasion…I think my heart was beating so hard at one stage…especially when my Dave got chatting to him! He’ll be including a review of the Cygnet in his Vogue blog.
Borough Market was another stop off point for the journalists to enjoy a spot of cheese tasting and a good coffee from Monmouths. Again Dave gets creative with the wide angle.
Some nice ambient shots of the evening events at The Conran Shop, where an orange Cygnet was parked for the full two weeks. There were so many other photos taken during our time on the launch and over time I’ll add a few more to the portfolio. All in all it was such a great brief to work on and a real privilege to be involved. I’m going to be shooting some fashion in June which I am mega excited about, it feels way too long and my portfolio is yearning for some new imagery again. It would be great to hear from you if you have any comments along the way.
Helen x
Copyright belongs to Helen Roscoe and David Rutter
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