Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Summer at the Sea

A couple of days ago I shared some shots from a shoot at Dawlish Warren with my first male model, Adam. Here are the monochrome edits from this shoot...

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Saturday, August 08, 2015

A Little Break

I've been pretty bad on the blogging front for the last few weeks, caught up in summer reading and looking after my adorable niece and nephew, however I have finally completed the edits from my first male portraiture shoot with Adam. 

This was definitely something different for me, when I did this shoot, I'd easily done a dozen female portraiture and fashion shoots but somehow I'd never actually worked with a male model. Generally I found very few differences, but the couple I found really did change the dynamics. I quickly established that male poses are entirely different and that consequently composition was often changed to suit the male physique. Nonetheless, I definitely found it good to try something new, and I look forward to sharing you the second set of photographs from this shoot. 

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Friday, July 17, 2015

Floral Frenzy

I'm really taking advantage of my free time this week and trying to tick everything off my to-do list, these photographs are from one of many fashion and portraiture shoots I did at the end of last term. 

This shoot definitely had a floral theme, a floral print dress, a flowery headpiece and a variety of flowers in the backgrounds. One of the things I love about letting a model choose their own look and outfit is the fact that I'm always amazed by how different everyone's own style is. Lucy wears a summery floral formal dress here but with a winter knitted cardigan ... which is of course somewhat necessary when you live in England. Granted, we've had some great weather and heatwaves lately, but it's not often warm enough to simply wear a summer dress.  
Model: Lucy Emma Naysmyth Sigley
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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Beside the Seaside Part II

I've been posting photographs as and when I finish editing them, and here are the final set from my shoot with Emily Wall...

              
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Summer Whites Part II

I shared the monochrome photographs from the first part of my shoot with Emily Wall earlier this week and so before I get caught up in my next project, here are some more shots from that day, but in colour. Enjoy!
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Beside the Seaside

It was way back in May that I actually shot these, but this break between shooting and editing gave me a lot of time to consider what I was going for. A t-shirt and high waisted skirt is one of my standard casual outfits, though usually in black not white, and with a nice pair of boots not heels, so this look was definitely one I liked. 

I'm really considering trying out some self-portraiture soon, and looking forward to sharing the results if I do. Outside of my photography I'm currently in the process of creating a capsule wardrobe and the completion of that will be a great opportunity to give self-portraiture a shot. More on this soon but for now... here are some photographs of Emily Wall in a Devon seaside town. 

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Monday, July 13, 2015

Summer Whites


Hey Guys! I've taken a little hiatus with my photography blogging for the last few weeks to work on some ideas but I couldn't resist sharing some of these beach shots featuring Emily Wall. Although I don't wear much white, I really love the way it comes out in monochrome photos and there's something so clean and simple about white. 
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Friday, June 26, 2015

Always Moving Forward

As promised, the second set of photographs from my trip to Powderham Castle with Clara George!

  I really enjoyed my time off between finishing my first year of uni and doing some work experience and having so much time to spend on working with these photographs, however I'm now working and so unfortunately the regularity of my posts is definitely going to decrease a little. Two a week has been really fun but will not be so easily done with everything I have planned this summer. Luckily, I still have a few more from my time in Exeter to share, including my first proper foray into male fashion/portraiture photography. 
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Monday, June 22, 2015

Living in a Fairytale

A couple of weeks ago I took a trip to Powderham Castle in Devon with Clara George, and here are the first photographs from this visit.

I was pretty amazed by the beautiful and well maintained garden, but the true beauty was in the castle itself. I had expected to find it run down and out of place, rather than something one would expect to find in a fairytale. This shoot definitely turned out a little different than I expected but I love the way the photographs came out.  Whilst I definitely like the colours in these, I'm really looking forward to sharing a few monochrome shots from this set, which I will be doing on Friday.
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Friday, June 19, 2015

Ballet at the Quay

These photographs are the second set from my shoot with Kristina... Taken at the Quayside in Exeter.

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Monday, June 15, 2015

Something Different

I've been posting quite a lot of fashion photography lately, rather than landscape or city which I hope to be posting some more of later in the summer, however these photographs are the result of my first foray into ballet photography so feel free to let me know what you think. 

These photographs feature Kristina Ivanova (find more of her ballet at http://travel-en-pointe.blogspot.co.uk). 

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Friday, June 12, 2015

Places That Fall Apart

These photographs are the second set from my trip to Poltimore House with Zoe Wong. My love of monochrome photography definitely took over with this shoot, however I do like working with colour and so I really enjoyed trying to balance the contrast between the greys and reds of the building and the vivid greens in the plant life when processing these photographs.  I definitely want to get out and find more unusual places like this to photograph!

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Monday, June 08, 2015

Breaking and Entering

I've been super busy working on my photography since finishing my exams, trying to get as many of my ideas processed. One of the things I've been longing to do since delving into fashion photography is do some darker photography and when I discovered Poltimore House, a nearby dilapidated 18th-century country house in Devon, I knew I'd found the perfect location. I love the effect shooting in listed buildings and other places that are simply abandoned by society now has on the photographs, however it turned out my model and I were in for a surprise when we got there. A group of volunteers are slowly in the process of restoration, and whilst the building is still in a state of ruin, it's surrounded by scaffolding. Naturally this didn't stop us however and we took great satisfaction in sneaking around the place, whilst avoiding the event taking place in the gardens. 

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Friday, June 05, 2015

Grey Days

Earlier this week I posted some of the photographs I took at Exmouth on a rainy day with Jess Curson, here are the second set of photographs from this shoot. I chose to photograph in monochrome for a lot of this shoot, simply because I loved the nice tonal greys that resulted of the grim weather.

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Monday, June 01, 2015

A British Summer

Here are some of the photographs of Jess Curson I took last week when shooting at Exmouth. What we'd hoped would be a gorgeous summer day was in fact a thoroughly wet day but the cloud cover made for really nice soft light and we still managed to get some nice shots.

           
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Friday, May 29, 2015

We Never Go Out of Style


Fashion is always changing, making it practically impossible to keep up with it, be on trend and tailor it to suit your own personal style...which is why I love plaid. Not only is plaid almost always in, but it is so easy to tailor to any look, from preppy to alternative. A plaid skirt can be easily paired with summery crop tops or winter knits, making it super versatile. 
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Friday, May 22, 2015

Distressed Denim


           

This shoot was inspired by one of the key pieces I picked up for my summer wardrobe, a distressed sleeveless denim jacket.  I love the effect created by mixing two opposite styles and I knew this jacket would be the perfect way to add a little edge to some of my more feminine dresses without the heavy feel of my leather jacket. My wonderful friend Lizzie agreed to modelling for me a long time ago and so when we finally both had a compatible date and the weather was nice, it was time to get out my new jacket. 

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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Lake District

 I took these photographs in the Lake District a few weeks ago on my Easter break, but I've been very busy working on revision and projects for Uni, so taken me a little while to sort through and select some to share on here. These photographs were taken using a circular polarising filter to bring out the blues, and I enhanced these whilst post-processing...


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Wednesday, April 08, 2015

Bubbles

Some photographs of a trip to the local park with my niece and nephew to play with some bubbles today... I really love that for once I got some nice natural smiles, rather than silly faces. Though there were a fair few silly faces!


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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Peak District

These photographs are a collection of landscapes taken around the Peak District...  plus the odd cow or two.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Sancho's Dress

Here are some of the photographs I took a couple of weeks as part of a shoot for Razz Magazine. The photographs feature clothes from Sancho's Dress, a clothing store that sells fair-trade ethical garments inspired by African beauty.


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Friday, March 06, 2015

Florence and Venice

I was amazed by the intricacy and beauty of the architecture in Florence and Venice, and Venice was definitely my favourite Italian city to photograph but it was very touristy. I loved the colours and the amazingly illogical layout, but unfortunately my camera was really dying by the last few cities and so I only got to photograph my first day in Venice and never got to photograph Milan. 


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Paris to Munich to Rome

One of the craziest parts of my journey was that I travelled all the way from Paris to Rome on just two overnight trains. Unfortunately I was so skint I couldn't afford anything but standard seating so by the time I reached Rome...I was exhausted! These photographs are from the cities I visited after Paris: Munich, Rome, and Pisa. Of these cities, my favourite was Munich, and I'm actually hoping to spend my year abroad there. Italy was simply too hot for me, though lovely! 


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Parisian Summer

These photographs are from the first part of my visit to Europe this summer, I spent about three days running around Paris with my camera trying to do literally everything. Despite the trip not being how I'd hoped, I was thrilled with the photographs I got, but I've only just got round to sorting through them (I took thousands). I will soon be posting photographs from the rest of my trip, but sadly my camera battery got exhausted over the ten days and I hadn't brought a charger, so there are a lot less from other locations. 

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Saturday, February 21, 2015

West Bay

These photographs are from today's visit to West Bay, a small seaside town in Dorset probably best known now for being one of Broadchurch's key filming locations. It's a lovely little coastal town with impressive jurassic cliffs and an alarming number of fish and chip stalls! 

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Friday, February 13, 2015

Time to leave the woods

I think this is going to be the last of my shoots with a very natural background for a while, as much as I love it, for my next shoot I will be shooting in town and getting some more urban/city shots....

These photographs feature Gabriella Drake... 

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Thursday, February 12, 2015

We found Wonderland...

One of the prettiest places on Exeter Uni's Streatham Campus has to be Reed Hall, the location for the photographs I took of Clara last Sunday. Whilst I loved working with the photographs and creating double exposures, there was something gorgeous about the colours captured in the fading light and these photographs show off the gorgeous location. So here are a few more shots of Clara...

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Violent delights have violent ends...

Some more photographs of the stunning Gabriella Drake, inspired primarily by Romeo and Juliet...


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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Not So Distressed Damsel

I love how the very Gothic tropes of a ruined castle as the backdrop and a beautiful girl in a virginial cream dress completely contrast with the atmosphere created in these photographs. Lydia is in no way portraying a damsel in distress...and it shows.


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Monday, February 09, 2015

Clara

Some double exposure photographs are from Sunday's shoot with model Clara George...

 I always love the surreal effect created by contrasting two different photographs to create a double exposure and the uniqueness of the resulting photograph. These are no exception, experimenting with different photographs in Photoshop until I found the two that merged perfectly was tricky but good fun. Amazingly the shoot itself was almost warm, and great fun with some gorgeous sunshine light, something that tends to be hard to find in February.


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Sunday, February 08, 2015

Dressed like a Daydream

More photographs from Saturday's shoot featuring Gabriella Drake!

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Princes wait there in the world...

So here is the next selection of photographs from Saturday's shoot...these are of Lydia Cooke.

If I had to choose just one thing that makes the photographs the way they are, I would have to say it's her amazing hair! So much volume and texture, makes my fine frizzy hair feel very jealous...


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Feminine Elegance

Stunning models and an amazing location made today's shoot simply perfect. Whilst some warmth would have been lovely, it is February! Sometimes there is nothing more beautiful than the understated elegance of long delicate dresses like these and I love the way these photographs came out.

These are just a few of the photographs from the shoot, I'll be posting lots more over the next few days but with another shoot planned tomorrow, things might be a little slow!

Models: Gabriella Drake (right) and Lydia Cooke (left)

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Sunday, February 01, 2015

Urban Fashion Final Photos!

These are the final photographs from the Urban Fashion Shoot. It was a great shoot and I enjoyed working with FashionSoc and a make-up artist for the first time. This shoot was hopefully just the beginning of a series of fashion shoots in which I want to further develop my style.

These photographs are of Alexandra Wright...

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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Urban Fashion Part 4

Here is the second selection of my Urban Fashion photographs featuring Annabella Sato....

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Friday, January 30, 2015

Urban Fashion Part 3


Some of you may have seen some of my photographs from this shoot published in the Tab and so I'm now ready to share them on my blog. These are some more of the photographs taken at the Urban Fashion shoot I photographed at the end of November. These photographs feature Annabella Sato with an amazingly chic white sporty outfit. Sad to say, I never dare white....If I'm not wearing dark colours when I go out for a shoot, I look rather rugged by the end to say the least!  I have to say I was impressed with how she doesn't look the slightest bit cold..despite the summer clothes in November.

These photographs are some of my favourites simply because of the really deep red and purple tones captured in the brick backgrounds and the way they contrast with her hair and skin tone. Naturally with my love for monochrome I was thrilled by the contrast I got between her light attire and the darker edgier backgrounds.

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Urban Fashion Part 2

Here is the second selection of my Urban Fashion photographs featuring Gabriella Drake....

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Model: Jenny Euesden

Here are the second set of my photographs from Sunday's shoot featuring Jenny Euesden...

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Monday, January 26, 2015

Model: Chloe Thomas

Here are the first set of photographs from Sunday's shoot...

So I took these photographs in Haldon Forest which is not too far from Exeter Uni and despite the time of year, it was beautiful. Lots of amazing warm tones in autumn leaves and I love the way these came through in the photographs. Naturally they also looked fantastic against red hair! 

The inspiration for this shoot was very much a little bit of everything, my love of the edgy styles in right now combined so well with the vintage feel of velvet and a good smoky eye! Very thrilled with  Zoe Wong's make-up artistry! 

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Sunday, January 25, 2015

Brrr...It's Chilly Outside!

So despite the fact it was under  5ÂșC today, my friends and I braved the cold to get some photographs in the gorgeous winter light. I'll be sharing more of the photographs soon but here are two of my favourites right now :)


Model: Jenny Euesden


Model: Chloe Thomas



Make-up: Zoe Wong


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