My 2nd Shoot with Jordan

A few months ago, Jordan messaged me and asked if I fancied doing a shoot with him on that Friday afternoon. So I drove into Newcastle, picked him up, parked in Manors and we went for a wonder. Because he wasn't wearing any bright colours and the area we were shooting in was dominated by post war concrete architecture and because the weather was quite grey and miserable I decided to do the entire shoot just with my Nikon 7200 with a 50mm lens and a SB-700, for some of the darker shots in an old multi-story car park and abandoned shopping centre.

Considering how this shoot was quite vaguely planned I'm really pleased and a little surprised and how many great photos we left with. There's even a few that I am considered adding to my portfolio and exhibiting in London later this year. 

I'm looking forward to working with Jordan again. I've just done a shoot with him and another male model in Newcastle and I've got a few themed ideas in mind for him which I am looking forward to planning.

My Last Shoot of 2015

Here are some of my favourite photos from my very last shoot of 2015. It also probably my luckiest shoot of the year and a candidate for the wettest shoot of the year. 

This shoot came about when Sarah (the model) told me she was helping  her friend, Isla (the makeup artists) with a college project, and she asked me if I photography her.

We had planned to shoot but had to cancel twice because of the weather and when I was hoping it would be third time lucky there was a problem as I had tickets to see Star Wars in the morning and I couldn't get in contact with the girls in the afternoon. So we ended up shooting in the dark in December when it was bitterly cold and constantly drizzling.

Lucky we went to a local park which had a convenient bandstand which I used as a big mirror to bounce my speedlight off to light Sarah, as shown in the photos above. We then retired to Isla's house and got a few more photos in her garden and front room, as shown in the photos below.

Because of all this I was really surprised by how brilliant the photos were. But I think we pulled together, gave it our all and really pulled it out of the bag and I really pleased with the results.

I am really looking forward to working with Sarah again, hopefully on my Portfolio Production project and I've been brainstorming a few ideas for a makeup shoot with Isla.

Emma + Kate

 Here are some of my favourite photos from my shoot with Emma and Kate in Leazes Park in the centre of Newcastle. This was quite a spontaneous shoot that I really enjoyed and resulted in some brilliant images. 

I'd already worked with Emma 2 years previously and the photos I took were some of my best to date. So naturally I leapt at the chance to work with her again. I hadn't worked with Kate before but she had been on my radar for a while and this seemed like a perfect opportunity to work with her. 

I've included some of my favourites photos from the shoot which I took using my Nikon D7100 with a 50mm lens using only natural light. It was a little cloudy but quiet light and even. The park was fairly empty and we managed to get loads of photos at the gates, the promenade and amongst the trees.

Overall I am really pleased with this shoot but wish I had more opportunities  to work with these two brilliant, cool and creative models but as they are both at university now, my changes are a little slim at the moment. I would really like to shoot them in these outfits in an urban scenario or maybe  we could try a more innocent look next time.

Behind the Scenes: Tattoo Joe and The Kream Vixens

A few weeks ago I took some Behind the Scenes photos of a video shoot for Tattoo Joe and The Kream Vixens at a bar in a converted railway arch in Gateshead. 

It was a beautiful location and a brilliant experience although I did feel like a fish out of water. I was just wandering around like an idiot surrounded by some gorgeous scantily clad ladies but I suppose there must be worse ways to spend a Wednesday night. 

I met some brilliant models that I'm hoping to work with in the future. I've already done a studio shoot with Corrie (the young lady in a blue tie) and hopefully she'll be helping me reinvigorate my Bad Blood idea. All in all it was a new experience and a productive evening.