Summer at the Sea

A couple of days ago I shared some shots from a shoot at Dawlish Warren with my first male model, Adam. Here are the monochrome edits from this shoot...

A Little Break

I've been pretty bad on the blogging front for the last few weeks, caught up in summer reading and looking after my adorable niece and nephew, however I have finally completed the edits from my first male portraiture shoot with Adam. 

This was definitely something different for me, when I did this shoot, I'd easily done a dozen female portraiture and fashion shoots but somehow I'd never actually worked with a male model. Generally I found very few differences, but the couple I found really did change the dynamics. I quickly established that male poses are entirely different and that consequently composition was often changed to suit the male physique. Nonetheless, I definitely found it good to try something new, and I look forward to sharing you the second set of photographs from this shoot. 

Floral Frenzy

I'm really taking advantage of my free time this week and trying to tick everything off my to-do list, these photographs are from one of many fashion and portraiture shoots I did at the end of last term. 

This shoot definitely had a floral theme, a floral print dress, a flowery headpiece and a variety of flowers in the backgrounds. One of the things I love about letting a model choose their own look and outfit is the fact that I'm always amazed by how different everyone's own style is. Lucy wears a summery floral formal dress here but with a winter knitted cardigan ... which is of course somewhat necessary when you live in England. Granted, we've had some great weather and heatwaves lately, but it's not often warm enough to simply wear a summer dress.  

Model: Lucy Emma Naysmyth Sigley

Lake District

 I took these photographs in the Lake District a few weeks ago on my Easter break, but I've been very busy working on revision and projects for Uni, so taken me a little while to sort through and select some to share on here. These photographs were taken using a circular polarising filter to bring out the blues, and I enhanced these whilst post-processing...

Bubbles

Some photographs of a trip to the local park with my niece and nephew to play with some bubbles today... I really love that for once I got some nice natural smiles, rather than silly faces. Though there were a fair few silly faces!

Peak District

These photographs are a collection of landscapes taken around the Peak District...  plus the odd cow or two.

Time to leave the woods

I think this is going to be the last of my shoots with a very natural background for a while, as much as I love it, for my next shoot I will be shooting in town and getting some more urban/city shots....

These photographs feature Gabriella Drake... 

We found Wonderland...

One of the prettiest places on Exeter Uni's Streatham Campus has to be Reed Hall, the location for the photographs I took of Clara last Sunday. Whilst I loved working with the photographs and creating double exposures, there was something gorgeous about the colours captured in the fading light and these photographs show off the gorgeous location. So here are a few more shots of Clara...

Wildlife Photography

Very soon I'll have some shots from this weekend's 'Urban Fashion' photoshoot to share, but in the meantime I've been wanting to post some wildlife photographs.

Whilst I really enjoy commercial and fashion photography, of all the photographs I've taken over the last few years, my wildlife shots have to be my favourites. I love photographing animals so I've chosen just a few of my favourites to share.