Campbell Photographic: Trash The Dress- The shoot

Originally this Trash The Dress shoot was going to be with one of our clients. But due to having other commitments, they couldn’t do it.

Instead we decided to use a couple of models, we could also then get some raunchy shots as well :).

We asked the lovely Layla if she’d be interested in doing the Trash The Dress and she said yes straight away.

Now we just needed to find a male model.

This was not as easy as finding a female model. Firstly there are less of them and secondly alot of the so called models that are out there are, well ... lets just say they're fooling themselves.

We put casting calls on various sites and got some responses. But the guys just didn’t have the look we wanted for this shoot. We almost gave up hope of finding a male model but Layla kindly put a post up on her Facebook page.

One guy responded Brad Wendes. We looked at his work on another site and we liked his look.

So we’d got the models, location, date set, time and of course a wedding dress (which we bought from the YMCA charity shop in Harlow - £15!).

The dress looked lovely on Layla and it didn’t look to bad on me either(!) ... well I had to try it on didn’t I, LOL.

The Shoot
The date: 19th May

Luckily the weather seemed to be on our side. That’s the only downfall of shooting on location in this godawful contry - the weather!

It’s raining one minute and then blazing sunshine the next. We would have loved to have gone to some sunny location abroad, but we don't have that kind of budget :( .

The location we used was the beach at Jaywick, not far from Mortello Tower. The beach had plenty of big rocks to get our models standing or lying on.

I had to help with make-up and hair, because our MUA pulled out. I think me and Layla did a good job really considering neither of us have training. I needed the practice anyway. It’s a good skill to have, especially as finding a good MUA and Hairstylist is very difficult.

We started the shoot with doing the raunchy couple shots. For these shots we put our models in various outfits, jeans and t-shirt and later got them into swimwear.

Once we got all the raunchy shots under our belt, we then got our models changed into some bridal wear. Again I helped Layla with hair and make-up.

We were now ready to do the Trash the Dress bit of the shoot.

We didn’t want hundreds of shots, but instead we wanted a few very strong poses.

Despite Layla not feeling 100% comfortable standing on the big rocks, she gave us some really strong poses. We not only got Layla on the rocks we also got our male model on them. We got some shots of Layla on her own and some with our male model.

We later got away from the rocks and went by the sea and got some very sexy shots of our models together.

We finished the shoot by getting Layla to walk out of the sea. At this point we purposely smudged the make-up with sea water, which I thought was very effective.