January 24th, 2009

model: Phoebe
Makeup: Cher Simmons / Julie Stevens
Styling: Catherine Colbourne

Gear: Canon 30D with 24-70L lens
Lights: Two 300ws monoblocks with softbox & unmerella

January 5th, 2009

Zombies in the woods are always a pleasure to shoot. Combine that with an excellent makeup team and a model who’s willing to be covered in syrup based blood while exposing himself to some pretty ugly British weather and you’ve got yourself the potential for some amazing imagery.

For this location shoot, I’d decided to travel light and use my wireless-triggered, off camera flash setup with a mixture of basic modifiers (bare bulbs, silver brollies and small diffuser). The second half of the shoot was shot with just the remaining available light.

Thanks to Phil Prior we shot some behind the scenes footage that I’ve hastily edited. Below is the video shot on the day.

October 22nd, 2008

Another couple of pictures from the past.  These were taken from a project that made up regular joes to look like celebrities from the past.  There were several other but these are my favourites.  We’re planning to bring this project back in the future… Keep your eyes peeled!

These were shot on location with off camera strobes (aka “my strobist kit”) and triggered wirelessly.

October 22nd, 2008

These are from a test shoot I did a while back with makeup artists Cher Treagust & Julie Anne Stevens and model James Bedoes.

It was all shot in a strobist kinda way.  My basic kit for this included three off camera flashes (canon & vivitar) with a whole bunch of monifiers (snoots, brollies, flags, etc…).

…I’m still finding fake blood in my kit today!

October 22nd, 2008

I recently shot Electro band Crash Repeat in the studio.   We initially started with a clean, white, traditional style before moving onto a more lofi setup using a single diffused strobe held above camera and a whole lot of processing!

Heres a few examples from the shoot including both styles… Just goes to show that a high end studio environment isn’t always called for

October 22nd, 2008

I just discovered that a bunch of my photography work that I shot with bodypainter Neil Hughes a few years back was exhibited at the Bizarre Ball 2008 in London… Wish I’d known in advance as I would have gone!

October 22nd, 2008

I’ve been working on a big project with body painter Neil Hughes over the last few months and one weekend  it side-lined into this shoot with olympic runner Richard Whitehead (www.marathonchamp.com).  Generally any shoot with Neil is guaranteed to get my attention but this one absorbed me completely…

October 22nd, 2008

The 48 Hour Film Dash is a local competition in which the entrants have 48 hours to write, shoot and edit a five minute short film containing a set of criteria given in the first hour.

Our entry, “The Bid” was shot on a Canon HG10 by the amazing cast and crew of “Team Fandango”.

The last hours were spent manically cutting about 12 minutes of footage into five, so here’s a link to the extended cut made following the event.

Big thanks to all involved, especially Steve & Dan, the two main cast pictured above (shot on Canon 30D with diffused CanonEXII).

October 22nd, 2008

These images were taken as part of a promotional/product shoot for Alex Simpson; an amazing traditional armourer based in the UK.

This set was shot in the studio with a single softbox and monolight.

October 22nd, 2008

Back in August this year I did a promo shoot with Irish performer ‘Bijou Hunter’ (www.bijou-entertainment.com).  We started off on location for her egyptian dance act.  We used three strobes (canon 580EXII & Vivitar 285s) with wireless triggers and shoot through brollies.

Later we moved back to the studio for a relativly easy setup using just a single softbox with 300WS monoblock.