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.

To see all the pictures from this shoot go to our Facebook fan page:-

Sexy shots

Trash The Dress shots

or our Flickr page

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Sexy shots

Trash the Dress shots.

Trash the dress Location search part 2

It wasn't the best weather in the world, but while Ross and I had a rare day off we thought why not check out some more locations for Trash The Dress.

Ross had seen a nice portrait shot of a model on some rocks by Jay Fuller - posted on Model Mayhem.

He messaged Jay and asked where it was taken. Thinking it would be somewhere exotic we were both surprised to hear back that it had been taken on a beach opposite jaywick martello tower in Clacton!

So we decided to drive off and have a nose around. When we got there the first thing we did was wrap up warm. It was awful :( The weather, as always in this country, was cold, wet and windy.

We walked over to the tower which in its self was interesting. A tall, round building with an interesting shape and history.

But it wasn’t the tower we'd come to see so we made our way over to the beach.

It didn’t take long for us to get to the rocks (and these were proper rocks). With the wind and rain biting into our faces Ross took some pictures of the rocks and the surrounding area.

Despite the weather we were both impressed by this location. This will be great on a nice day.

Ok, so that was one location done. We next started to make our way to Walton On the Naze.

On our way there we spotted a sign for a park called Holland Haven Country Park.

Not much there really, a beach, a few trees and a car park. We took a few quick snaps and then carried on our way to Walton on the Naze.

By the time we got there the weather had got a little better (well it had stopped raining at least but was still cold :( ).

Walton on the Naze had most of what we where looking for, but no rocks that we could see though.

We walked along the promenade and near the pier olong the front of the sea wall we spotted a colourful wall with some columns. Again Ross took some shots.

On the other side of the pier there were also some beach huts and the sea wall - and some long stairs going all the way back up to the main road. All these might make interesting locations for the shoot.

Both Ross and I agreed that the first and last locations would work for what we wanted to do.

We’ve also been talking about when to do the shoot. We had been thinking of doing the shoot in March/April. But with the weather being the way it has been we are now thinking of putting it back to the summer or very late spring - end of May or maybe June, July ... maybe even September.

It’s going to be a case of keeping an eye on the weather and also when our couple are free.

Watch this space ....