Fashion Without Faces

Quick update on the fashion without faces (book) project.

I've selected some of the images i took when photographing my friend for her modeling portfolio. I've changed the colours of the dress on 2 of the 3 images so they look different so i can include them all in my book!
I'll probably only put in the 1st and second, i'm not too keen on the 3rd.

Swithland Reservoir Shoot

A friend contacted me about photos for her modeling portfolio a few weeks back, and we arranged to shoot on the 25th at Swithland Reservoir.

I decided to try and get some photos for my book project at the same time (I'll attatch these to another post!)

I'm happy with the results we got from this shoot, especially as i haven't done any location work in years!
If i were to do it again, i'd try to use depth of field more in the images.

Here are a few of the final edited images.

Experimenting

Over the past few weeks, the sky at dusk has been amazing.

I've just been experimenting with different camera settings to see what different effects i can get without photoshop!


Here's 2 images taken from my bedroom window <3

I used a filter on my lens to create the star effect from the street lights. Some people think these are tacky, but i think it works in this photo!

I used a slower shutter speed to capture the bold colours in the sky <3

This photo is one i took when i was in Spain. I've photoshopped people out of the image and darkened the edges of the photo.

I never thought landscape/skyscape photography would interest me, but now i've taken some shots i want to include more into my work!! =]

Kick Starting This Summer Project!

Fashion Without Faces:

Okay so i deceided to start my summer project whilst away in sunny Spain <3
The whole idea of these photos is to be unposed and to catch moments as they happen.

The sun helped hugely with my first shot as it made it really bright and bold. I'm very happy with the result of this photo and it is deffinatley going into my photo book!

These next 2 photos aren't the best of photos =/

I wanted to capture the movement of the Flamenco dancer's dresses, but it was really dark, the stage wasn't lit very well and i couldn't get as close as i'd have liked.

These are the 2 best images from the bunch! Super photoshopped to try and make them brighter but i think they look abit pixelated now =[

Might use the first one in my book, i don't want to put both in as theyre very similar.

 

Jo & John's Wedding Party

Okay, so me and Lizzy went to take photos for a family friend a few weeks back.
HUGE learning curve!
We worked along side the main photographer (Tom Wren) and we were basically just there to take photos of the evening guests - With the help of Tom =]

It was alot harder than expected due to the dark, cramped and busy environment. I used a speed light on top of my camera and then used the shutter speed setting on my camera so i didn't have to keep working out the different appertures.

At first i found that i kept getting harsh shadows behind the people on my photos in certain areas of the location, so i experimented with bouncing the light off at different angles to correct this.

Summer Client 1!

Off to meet a client at half 3 =]
Hopefully this summer work will count as work experience!

Book/summer project

Been thinking alot about this book/summer project. I seriously want to get into doing fashion work. The idea that i'm really keen on doing is this kind of images of people or parts of people but without their faces in... I like the idea of knowing abit about the person in the photograph through what they wear, hold and from the location, without knowing who they are - i want to do a series of photos of this and then my book will have just these images in so it all ties together.

Just abit of a differnt approach to the normal fashion kind of work.

I've posted some images of work that are very similar for the outcome i'm looking to achieve!