As you may know, Ross and I love doing location shoots. It was for this reason that we decided to do a London fashion shoot.
For this particular shoot I was going to be main photographer and we wanted 2 female models.
World renowned photographer Dave "Archangel" Hepburn and the Managing Director/Founder of Sky's Angels, former international model Tracy Hayward, said they’d like to come and join us on the shoot.
They even said they’d buy some outfits for the shoot, which was nice of them :). We said we’d buy any other outfits; well it was our shoot after all.
But before we could buy any outfits we needed to find 2 models. As always Ross put a casting calling call out on Sky's Angels, Model Mayhem, Purestorm and Net Portfolio.
We had a massive response, so cutting down the applicants was a job in itself. Eventually we found the 2 models we wanted, Alicia and Ruta. They both had very strong looks, which was just what we wanted.
We also managed to get MUA Monkia Vasiliauskaite, after our original MUA pulled out.
So, we’d got our models and MUA, now we just needed to buy them some outfits. But what sort of outfits did we want?
For the 1st outfit we bought some vest tops with some lace looking detail on them - ne pink and one blue - which I thought would suit the girls colouring. We would pair the tops of with the models own jeans, plus some hats provided by us.
The 2nd outfit would be shorts with some summer tops which were mine, one black and the other beige.
So, that’s the outfits and models sorted - or so we thought! As you'll see from the photos, there are three(!) models.
Well, unfortunatley, the lovely Ruta had to pull out a few days before,the shoot. Ross put another call out and straight away 2 lovely models got back to us; Aisling and Dani.
We decided to us both girls because they both had great looks. However this did mean we were an outfit short.
So the day before the shoot was spent running around looking for extra shorts and tops. We had actually already done a lot of running around to find the first lot of outfits. We ended up going to Primark and Asda , which seem to sell good quality clothes for very low prices.
The Shoot
Date: June 3rd. Time: Very Early!!
After driving through the night, Dave and Tracy arrived at ours nice and early (6:30am!), which was a good thing considering we were going to London. It’s a nightmare travelling into London any time of day, even worse in the morning.
We left at 8am (ish) and strangely the roads we quite good. We actually got to London with time to spare,.
We had a quick tea & coffee and then it was time to go to the allocated meeting place - which was Tower Bridge. We weren’t waiting there for long before our lovely models and MUA arrived.
Tracy went to find somewhere for us to set up and sweet talked a cafe owner into letting us use the corner of their patio section. The MUA set up and started doing her magic. The cafe also some toilets for the girls to get changed in since Dave managed to forget his portable changing room (lol - sorry mate :)).
We got our models into their outfits, which was jeans, vest top and hats. While Aisling was having her make-up done, me and Tracy took Dani & Alicia away for a couple of quick shots.
We had only managed to get a few shots before some official bloke told us weren’t allowed to photograph there(!), which was strange because every other person was doing just that. Turns out because we had a MUA and pro kit they decided it was a full professional shoot and we had to get permission and pay £500! Didn't seem to bother him that it was a TFCD shoot.
To keep the peace we did as we were told - so annoying though that we had to stop. This sort of thing happened most of the day, but despite that we did all get some amazing shots.
While Alicia and Danni got thier make-up done, me, Ross and Tracy took Aisling off to do some shots. Tracy had found a way down to the riverside/beach earlier in the day, so that’s where we took her.
Thankfully there was no one there to stop us from photographing(!). We all got some fantastic shots of Aisling.
Back at the cafe, once all the girls were finished with being made up, Ross got a few quick shots while Mr Guard wasn't looking and then we made our way back to the beach.
It was very windy and one of the hats went into the water. Luckily Ross rescued it (didn't know he could move that fast!). He would have been very upset if had gone ... it was the hat he wore at our wedding!
After taking some great shots we got the girls to change into the shorts and summer tops. The makeup didn’t need changing because Monika had done a great job and the look she'd gone for was very versatile.
Once we'd got what we wanted to get at the beach, we moved on to several different locations. Because there were little Hitler's telling us to move on every 5 secs we had to be quick. Grab the shots we wanted and move on to the next location. 
The last outfits of the day were 3 lovely maxi dresses that Tracy had bought. I had my eye on one of them, but it would never have looked as good on me ... and it would be too long (I’m only 5ft3ins).
I had gotten all the shots I wanted to get with the other 2 outfits, so I let Ross do rest of the shoot.
Ross and Dave got some great shots of all 3 girls, then Aisling had to go. We decided that would be a good time to break for lunch.
After coffee and bacon sandwiches (mmmm) we moved further down the river, grabbing shots and dodging Hitlers.
Once Ross & Dave had got what they wanted we called it a day. It was actually now early evening., so it was a good time to stop - especially with trying to get out of London that time of day.
It had been a long day but worth it because Ross and I got to work with Dave and Tracy , some great girls, a fantastic MUA .... and we got some fantastic shots.
I would like to take this opportunity to say to Tracy and Dave it was a pleasure meeting you both. Also thank you for all the encouragement you have given me and Ross.
You can find both Dave (Archangel) and Tracy (Admin) - on Sky's Angels, http://www.skysangels.com/
Campbell Photographic are the Official Photographers for Sky's Angels in Essex, check out our profile on Sky's Angels.
You can also find both Dani and Alicia on Sky's Angels.
If you would like to see the complete albums from this shoot go to either our facebook fan page, Flickr page or myspace fan page
