Portfolio shoot 2- Ice Queen

Today i had my second shoot for my portfolio, in which i created an Ice queen look. I had the pleasure of working with the amazing model Beth Dooley and a fantastic hair stylist/MUA Emma Louise Elliot, who i had previously worked with for the MUA jobs.

I sent her my moodboard for the ice queen, which basically was simple make up, ott hair, which is what she did and it was amaazing!

She used a sponge in the hair and crimped, plaited and crossed it over and i was so happy with the final result! heres a shot i took specifically for the hair!

I also put my DIY skills to handy use once again and created my own head piece. or 'snow crown' if you like.  The 'icicles' were made out of glue from a hot glue gun, using baking paper to create the icicle shape. Here is some close ups of the final result of my crown after the gemstones and glitter had been added. 

I was quite proud of the creation although i think i could of possibly added a bit more too it but overall i am happy with it!

The shoot itself went so smoothley, we used smoke bombs again which worked out really well and it wasnt actually pitch black this time! yey! as we did it much earlier (i think ive learnt from my last shoot) But yeah, Beth was a superb model who just kind of did it, and the outcome is marverlous!

Still on with the editing at the moment as i want them to be perfect , well near enough. 

BUT here is some BTS shtos for the time being! Enjoy!

first post in a while!

Merry christmas everyone! i haven't been posting as much as i should of really but been busy with festivities and catching up with friends and family!
I am currently on a small family holiday in Northumberland, Newton by the sea, and for christmas i got a 85mm 1.8 prime lens! so this little holiday has been the perfect time to test it out and try it before i get back to Uni! Today we just had a crazy coastal walk to dunstanburgh castle with my dog and heres a few snaps from today. I don't really like landscape photography so i wanted to switch it up a little and make it so I was doing a lot of shooting into the sun today because i absolutely love this effect, and i've never tried it properly but here is a few of my favourites!

More from today! finals and close ups

Here are a couple of edited images from today. Really happy with them and can't wait to do more stuff like this.
There are also close ups of the head piece and the chest piece further down which in total took around 8 hours.
Also thank you to Annabelle again who helped out and took some Behind the scenes stuff, to Danielle my model, and Toni Dent my make up artist for the day! You were all amazing :)

Close ups of head piece and body piece!

Behind the scenes of todays photoshoot.

Today i shot my image for contextual studies, after HOURS of prep, making the head piece and chest piece, it was all finally ready to photograph. It was honestly one of my favourite shoots to date, i loved it!
I downloaded capture one yesterday so i took advantage of that and took my laptop down to Jesmond dene, which is where the photoshoot took place.
I found a tree and fallen tree covered with ivy, and so i decided to shoot there.
I took one flash head planning on using it but in the end it wasnt needed as it was a perfect day to photograph and it was giving the perfect amount of light.
We even tried smoke bombs! but unfortunatley because it was only a portrait it was hard to capture the smoke in the right places. but anyway I tried it and i really liked the effect it gave however it would of been better for a more full body shot.
This was all for our contextual studies supporting image, in which we had to create a photograph in the style of our chosen photographer. I hopefully captured Kirsty Mitchell's style, but my concept is mother nature. The contrast of flowers with the green ivy was really captivating so i was very excited to look at them properly.

I spray painted some of the ivy around her white, and entwined her hair in the leaves and flowers. It was a really pretty set when it was all put together!

here are some behind the scenes shots!

Amazing MUA, Toni Dent

Model: Danielle Connelly, one of my best friends, she was great! 

spray painting the leaves and entwining her hair

Using the smoke bombs..

As you can see its a really cool effect, and i will be using them again, but it was too overpowering for the look i was going for. 

Helping assist Richard Allen!

After i had shot the images for ceramics, +Annabelle Brown  asked me to come along with her and our tutor graham to help out with a shoot at Alex Telfer's studio in Byker. Unfortunately it wasn't with Alex, BUT it was absolutely amazing to go. The studio was in a converted church and was absolutely beautiful, the walls were filled with his photographs and the actual studio itself was huge!! There was a lighting umbrella the size of my bedroom, and the scoop was insane!

ANYWAY

We helped assist a photographer called Richard Allen, who is also an ex Newcastle College student.

http://www.richardallenphotography.co.uk/

He has shot the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow! And his other clients include, Fred Perry, Hugo Boss and a lot of famous footballers and sportsmen!

Todays shoot was with Sunderland football club's Andreas Dossena, not a big fan of football myself, but he was Italian and a very nice man. They were interviewing him and photographing him, but they key part of the shoot ( Richards main clients) were Mizuno, a japanese sportswear who are very big over there but upcoming in the UK. So he's photographing various footballers promoting the brand. 

I wish i could of taken better photographs but the camera on my phone is rubbish as i lost my iphone a couple of months back. But it was a great learning experience and really good to see how a professional photographer works with his clients and the set up was amazing! Il upload the photos taken by Richard when they have been uploaded and finalised.

Oh and managed to get a short video! enjoy! (again sorry about the quality)

Potting about

This morning I was asked to photograph bits and bobs from the ceramics department! I was nervous and not too sure about it as I've never really shot still life or anything like that before and to be honest, its not really my niche, but hey, you never really know until you try.
So anyway, i had a little help from my tutor Graham. But my set up was just 2 lights basically, one from the back and one gridded soft box over the front.
+Annabelle Brown  was helping me out also which was really nice of her and the 2 peoples who's work i was photographing were really lovely.
We also ended up getting a box of chocolates in the end! and if you know me you will know i appreciate that :)

so heres a few from this morning ..