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Luxury strikes again

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It’s always nice to know what happens to the images I’ve helped create. Well done to Keith Cooper for being awarded a merit for this image at the SWPP convention. One of my favourite sets I’ve ever done, and I’m so proud of the results. Full set can be seen here: Luxury. Two more shoots are in the planning stages, the first depending on being able to find a specific natural setting at the right time of year.

Ghost & Grapes

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I love images which show movement blur – to be honest I’ve never been a huge fan of the ‘stop motion’ school of photography. I much prefer to move around like a mad thing and hope some kind of shutter release makes some kind of cool ghostliness happen. The following (very experimental) images were taken as part of the second shoot I did with Keith Cooper at Cheltenham Film Studios. I think they’re really cool – I’m barely even in some of them, so they’re nice and ‘anonymous’. I love the bright freshness and vibrancy of the colours in the first few, then the muted, soft, pale hues in the second lot. The piece of silk fabric I’d brought along (hand-dyed from Cairo, dontchya know) looks a bit like flames, flying up in sultry licks.

Here we are then:

We also did some Roman/Greek/Latin-esque images against a be-lettered piece of fabric Keith had brought along to use as a background, avec grapes and some of my be-coined dance pieces. A productive shoot!

Luxury

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There is something so luxurious about this set I did during my second shoot with Keith Cooper. I love the decadence and contrasts of the red and gold fabrics against my skin.

Click to enlarge a photo…

Sorry there are so many (but hey, I do describe this blog as the place to see more images from sets) – took me ages to limit it down to these favourites. I’d quite like to upload them all to my website (currently being made over completely!) and/or portfolio but have to choose just one… Whaddya reckon?

Some low key stuff we also did:

 

Untouched

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This is just a quick entry in between catching up on emails after a brilliant week shooting in Spain (more on that soon!). I just wanted to show a few shots from a photographer I worked with earlier this month (no link to his work online, unfortunately, but he knows who he is and this is posted with thanks!) at the Kennington camera club. I was sent these images straight after the shoot, just so that I could see how they look, but they aren’t finished products, in the sense that they are intended to become cyanotypes and carbon transfer prints, and a chosen few of them might be put onto copper plates later this summer. The photographer uses the techniques and process of the Nineteenth Century (mainly gravure and platinum printing) and is doing a PhD concentrating on representations of the body. The shoot was quite unusual for me, in that it consisted almost entirely of ‘acting’ (more properly so than in the usual sense of ‘modelling’); I was given roles to dramatise and unusual things to do while being photographed. I found it quite challenging, but in a refreshing way, and it was certainly fun! This was the first shoot during which I’ve ever been asked to be photographed while singing a song, for example! I love singing, but I’m pretty shy about doing it in front of people… I won’t tell you what I sang, but it is a childhood favourite!
Anyway, acting adventures aside, I thought some of the portraits I was sent were very nice in particular, and as they are in the ‘not quite what they’re meant to be yet’ phase (though, as I say, I think they’re great and very nicely lit), they are completely unretouched. To be fair, a lot of the work you’ll see in my portfolios and on here are also unretouched in this way (e.g. no skin work) and I’m a big fan of natural, simple shots. I hope you like them too.

Birthday publication!

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It was my birthday on Monday – thanks everyone for the millions of good wishes I received in internet land! I felt very loved, and decided I was totally happy to have a birthday after all. I always feel a bit funny about birthdays, but genuinely had such a nice day, starting with a hair modelling shoot which left my hair all sculpted-yet-floaty-and-whimsical for the rest of the day and evening (proper blog post with images to come soon!), then a ridiculous amount of all my favourite types of cake (a heavy emphasis on fondant fancies) with my family, then cocktails with some good friends in a gorgeous Moroccan themed bar on the Cowley Road in Oxford. Lush! So happy, and my friends got me some flippin’ lovely presents and handmade cards (I have such creative friends who always impress me! I just wish I’d remembered to get my camera out BEFORE the very end of the night when only a few of us hardcore Monday-nighters were still celebrating) – jewellery, notebooks, tea cup & saucer set(!)… they all know my colours and taste so well, hehe. My Mum also bought me guide books on Central America, as I’ll be having a bit of a gaddabout later this year. Tres exciting.

In other news (well, it might not be news to you if you’ve seen my facebook wall recently, since it keeps being filled with photographers posting that they’ve noticed me in their favourite mag!), a shoot I recently did for Digital Camera magazine (photographed by photographer and editor Ben Brain) resulted in being published on the UK & US covers of the April issue, plus multiple shots (including some little ‘behind the scenes’ images) spread over 14 pages inside. The main feature is called ‘Shoot Stunning Fine Art’, so it’s full of tips and know-how gems for photographers branching out into this genre.

I’ll post some of the tearsheets below, and maybe finish with cake:

🙂