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Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Egypt Working Hoilday

We recently went to Egypt with the Kerri Parker Academy as the main photographers on their Modal Tutortials in the Sun trip.

We were originally given the impression that we would be doing both Fashion and Glamour, which I was happy about as I enjoy shooting fashion.

Unfortunately, I only shot the girls once because once there it was clear they did not want to shoot fashion at all and were only interested in shooting glamour - which was a shame because I was getting some great images and I really wanted to build up my portfolio with more fashion.

However, all was not lost because for the rest of the week I got to shoot behind the scenes, which I've always enjoyed, because I love capturing moments just as they happen.

To see more images you can go to our FaceBook Fan page or MySpace page you can also see our work on Flickr

Thursday, 12 August 2010

Two Babes and a Dude!

It all started when Ross wanted to arrange a group shoot at the studio (which never happened - but that's another story).

The lovely Jenny Clewlow responded to the casting call Ross had put on Purestorm. She was unfortunately already booked, but was very keen to set up a shoot with us.

I had originally seen Jenny on Facebook and wanted to work with her. She has a lovely look, already has a stunning portfolio and has worked with many great photographers already - so you can imagine how excited I was that she liked our photos and wanted to work with us.

We managed to find a date we were all free. Communication up to the shoot was excellent. Jenny is very organised and has a level head on those lovely shoulders. Ross messaged Jenny over Facebook and Purstorm with his ideas for the shoot and she was more than happy to turn Ross' ideas into reality.

We also contacted another model who did nudes, which was something lacking from our portfolio. The lovely model was Emma Alicia Robinson, who also had some make-up training.

Emma kindly offered to do the make-up for our shoot with Jenny and do her own too, which was a great help to us. Emma was very quick with the make-up and understood exactly what we required.

Day of the Shoot
When we arrived at the studio we received a warm welcome from Jenny and I must say she is just as pretty in the flesh as in her pictures. Not only that, but shes one very sweet person. We started the shoot with some simple head shots and later moved onto doing some glamour poses.

Ross and Jenny bonded straight way, you’d think they’d been shooting together for years.

There was a lot of giggling from everyone involved in the shoot and the time just flew by.

Before we knew it, it was soon time for the gorgeous Jenny to go :(

We have a lot more shots planned that we'd like to do with her, so will be arranging another shoot with her soon. Stay tuned.

Emma's Turn

We had the studio booked for another 3 hours. With Jenny gone it was now Emma’s turn in front of the camera.

When it came to shooting, Emma knew what we needed from her as a model. The make-up again was spot on for the sort of shots we wanted to get.

The other brilliant thing about Emma was her versatility. She can look very strong/striking one moment and then the next minute look soft/vulnerable.

For the first lot of shots Emma gave herself very extreme make-up, which worked brilliantly with the style of poses she was doing. Very strong fashion poses, lots of angles and curves and really great, strong facial expressions.

Emma had brought her boyfriend Jason along, who we also used for some shots. Again there was a lot of giggling between shots and again just like Jenny, both Emma and Jason were completely comfortable with Ross shooting them. It was hard to believe they hadn’t worked together before.

On this shoot I worked as creative director, stylist and I did a bit of hair styling for Jenny, which are all things I’m enjoying doing.

It was an all round brilliant and fun day and Ross did some of his best work ever. We all made a good team and got some great images.

Big thanks Jenny, Emma and Jason. You guys were great to work with and we must do it again.

To see more of Jenny's modelling work, visit her website

http://jennyclewlow.synthasite.com/

To see more of Emma’s modeling work go to her website

http://www.emma-alicia.co.uk/

To see more of Emma’s make-up work go to

http://www.modelmayhem.com/1692352

To see more of jason’s modeling go to his model mayhem profile

http://www.modelmayhem.com/1740859

To see more of our work go to

http://www.campbellphotographic.co.uk/

You can also find us on Twitter, Facebook, Sky’s Angels, Model Mayhem, net portfolio, Purestorm and my space.

Monday, 14 June 2010

Studio Shoot - our last TFCD of 2010

For our last TFCD for the year, we thought it would be nice to do it as a group shoot with both girls and boys.

We decided to book a studio for a whole day and make the shoot an SAS shoot (Share A Studio). Basically a TFCD, but we all share the cost of the studio ... so the more people the better.
To make it cost effective we needed at least 5 people to come on board.

We had 4 girls, 1 boy and a MUA all interest in coming along.

Well 3 people confirmed straight away. Unfortunately, the MUA dropped out and after several weeks of umming and ahhing 1 of the girls and the guy dropped out.

Even though it wasn’t really cost affective for us, it was far too late to cancel the shoot and we would still have had to pay the studio. Still £35 each wasn't so bad for 8hrs in a 3000sqft studio with over a dozen sets.

Then on the morning of the shoot one of the remaing 3 models cancelled on us because she was having a few personal issues. I thought this was a little unprofessional, but these things happen. It was shame really because it was someone we have worked with a few times and liked working with.

Despite these problems we continued with the shoot. Our 2 lovely hunnies were the lovely Lisa Murray that we'd worked with before and Samantha Coe - one of the girls that was originally going to be on our Urban Shoot, but she had a blowout on the M11.

We got some stunning shots of our lovely hunnies. Both Samantha and Lisa were very easy to work with, took direction really well and know how to have a laugh.

Thank you my lovely hunnies. I hope we get to work together again soon.

Below is just a small selection of pictures taken on the day.

This was our last TFCD for this year, but we are currently running a special offer on a portfolio shoots, just go to http://www.campbellphotographic.co.uk/modspecials.html for more details.

To see the full album of images from this shoot go to our facebook fan page, flickr page or myspace page

Saturday, 12 June 2010

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.