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.

London Fashion Shoot

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 1^st 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 3^rd. 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.

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