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. 

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.

Ballet at the Quay

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

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). 

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!

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. 

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.

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.