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Merry Christmas everyone

by Damian Comans|on December 24, 2010 |in Commercial, Fashion, Islington, London, Model, N1, Photographer, Photography, Portfolio, Portrait, Professional, Retouching, Studio |Leave a comment

Hello,

A huge thank you to all of my clients over the past year. Has been a very interesting time and I’ve been able to see some parts of the the UK and the world that I otherwise would not have been able to make it to. I’ve got one more wedding this year which I’m very much looking forward to. Then it’s onwards to 2011!

Next year I plan to keep pushing the boundaries and try and make more time for personal creative work. I love that my work allows me to always be at least slightly creative, however making time for personal work really helps take me out of my comfort zone and try something new. It’s a great time to sandbox ideas, which I can then incorporate into my paid work (which is generally not the best time to experiment!).

Here’s an example of one such shoot. This is Nadine and I collaborating with hair and make up artist Heather, and our assistant for the session Suze. Like our last testing session, again we were trying to see how far we could push what is possible in a lounge room. I love it and think we achieved one of my favourite photos so far.

To get the look, I used 4 flash units. 2 were speedlites behind Nadine pointed directly at the camera. I then had 2 studio flashes at the front. The main light source had a softbox with the front removed for a very edgy look. The other was on extremely low power and shot through a white umbrella. That was just used for fill to make sure the shadows didn’t go too dark.

Thanks to my lovely girlfriend for modelling for me, again! And for being an amazing photo retoucher. A lot of my commercial work this year has been given the finishing touch by her talents so thank you xxx

Apologies if I haven’t had time to blog about your particular photo shoot this year. Has been my busiest year yet which I’m grateful for but means there’s not enough hours in the day to report on every single shoot! I will try and get some of them online over the coming months.

So, I’m now off to join my good friends Nicki and Cam for some festive celebrations. Merry Christmas to you and your families :)

Cheers,
Damian

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Geraldine and Richard’s Anniversary

by Damian Comans|on November 1, 2010 |in Event, Islington, London, Photographer, Wedding |Leave a comment

I do a lot of work for Insight Research Group, so was happy when Insight’s founder Richard Gilmore asked me to come and be the photographer for an event at Emirates Stadium. Turned out the event was Geraldine and Richard’s wedding anniversary, being held in the very exclusive Diamond Club.

Here’s Geraldine and Richard. Such a cute couple and still smiling after 10 years of marriage :)

The staff at Emirates were very sweet and let a small group of us take some photos down on the pitch and in the player’s changing rooms. I’d not actually ever been to a massive football stadium before. Emirates is HUGE! Can’t even begin to imagine what it must sound like when Arsenal scores a goal.

Back upstairs, I put on my camouflage gear* so I could hide back and capture candid images with natural, unforced smiles.

*this part of the story is not entirely true

If you’re ever in need of a party band I can highly recommend The Lost Boys. They put on a fantastic show, sounded great and with a mix of modern tunes and old classics had the crowd dancing from start to finish. Well done guys!

Thanks again Geraldine and Richard for having me along on Friday. Amazing venue, friendly people and a very successful event!

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Lounge room portrait photography

by Damian Comans|on October 9, 2010 |in Fashion, Headshots, Islington, London, Model, N1, Photographer, Photography, Portfolio, Portrait, Professional, Studio |Leave a comment

I recently got back from shooting a wedding in Canada. Had such an amazing time and am truly grateful to Steve and Lis for flying me over. I’m still processing those images (over 40GB’s of data…) and hope to have them online shortly. Since I got back though have had 4 commercial shoots so has been a very hectic time! To make life busier I also needed to test some new lighting kit, so I roped the girlfriend into doing some quick modelling in the lounge room. Here’s one of my favourites:

Image is pretty much straight out of camera apart from some minor skin retouching. We got the effect by combining flash and regular incandescent lights (the regular lights were covered with coloured gels). The streaks of colour were burned in using a long exposure while Nadine’s image was frozen with flash. Very experimental but I think it works. Just goes to show that with the right lighting (and model :) ) you can turn an average room into something interesting.

The lighting kit I was testing were 2 new gridded softboxes. They produce a beautifully soft yet directional light, which lets me control exactly where it falls. Love it and has already been used on a magazine shoot a few days ago (those photos to also follow shortly).

Thanks Nadine for volunteering for this shoot and also doing the skin retouching (quite handy dating a professional photo retoucher!) xx

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Mione and Steve

by Damian Comans|on November 20, 2009 |in Islington, London, N1, Photographer, Photography, Wedding |Leave a comment

Way behind on my blog posts again! Here’s some pics from Mione and Steve’s wedding back in July at the Islington Town Hall. We were so lucky with the weather. Sunny for the ceremony and the after photos, then absolutely bucketed down about 2 minutes after we made it to their reception at Ziloufs.

One of the highlights was Mione’s family flying out from Australia to surprise her and Steve. Such an amazingly sweet thing to do. Apparently they decided literally a few days before and just booked the tickets and flew over. Love it.

Here’s Dad making sure he gets the sneaky iPhone shot in before the ceremony

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The food at Ziloufs was superb

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As were the copious amounts of cocktails consumed that evening ;)

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Thanks Mione and Steve for having me along at your wedding. Met some really genuinely lovely people. Hope to see you guys cruising about Islington again one day.

Cheers,
Damian

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