Miles was looking to kickstart his modelling career, so we arranged to shoot a range of styles so his portfolio could look varied. Here’s some of my favourites from the shoot.
Cheers to Miles and stylist extraordinaire Ashleigh!
Happy Easter everyone! Here’s a few images from my shoot with the superstar model, Kitty L. Stylist in charge was Suchita Kapur, with hair and make up by Ana Popescu.
These images were lit with the sun coming from directly behind Kitty, a large white reflector to camera right and a small gold reflector to camera left
With Kitty now facing in to the strong sun, we held a large diffusion scrim between her and the harsh light. This softened the light beautifully, but overall became a bit flat. To get some shape back in to the image, a plexiglass mirror is behind Kitty to camera left to help pop her out from the background. A small gold reflector was used in front of Kitty to kick some light back on to the side of her face, adding a little bit of shape
I love the gentle, natural look to these next two. You can’t help but get lost in those eyes (bigger version on my site).. Sun from behind, white reflector to camera right
Huge white reflector to camera left that was literally moved with Kitty as she walked
The light was fading rapidly, and Kitty was pushing on in her Summer fashion despite the chilly London afternoon. Large white reflector camera right, small gold reflector held above to catch the last remaining sun and bounce onto Kitty’s face
For this last scene, the light was basically non existent! Out comes the flash, fired through a white brolly on axis with camera
Big thanks to Kitty, Suchita and Ana!!
I recently photographed the UK’s leading life coach, Mr Rasheed Ogunlaru. Rasheed wanted some updated PR imagery to go along with his new website www.rasaru.com. I wanted our studio pics to look really fresh, warm and welcoming, so opted to go for a nice seamless orange
Next we hit the outside world to grab a few shots around Tower Bridge. This location appeared along the way with funky spotlights that were on the surrounding walls. A quick climb up the wall to reposition them, add in a reflector and away we go
It was getting quite dark and poor Rasheed was getting a bit frozen, so we headed to our final destination to finish off the shoot. First image is lit with plain white flash through a white umbrella
I felt it was looking a bit cold, so added a blue gel to the flash, then corrected the colour back in camera to a neutral foreground. This results in sending any areas not lit by the flash orange
Warm background achieved, so we worked on the last few pics and wrapped up Rasheed in his jacket again!
Cheers Rasheed for a fun PR shoot and pushing through despite the cold London evening!
Male model Bukky Oni contacted me about a shoot he wanted to do for his portfolio with Miss Harriet. I called in hair and make up superstar Ana Popescu and together we worked on a few different images.
The guys had a couple of dynamic poses they wanted to try, so we shot these first with a large soft box placed to camera left. Can you tell their thighs are burning?!
Much easier on the legs standing upright!
And even better sitting down 
For this shot of Bukky while Miss Harriet was having a re-style, I used a single flash with a very tight snoot pointing down across his face
I kept similar lighting for these next few shots, just opened the beam up to cover both of the models
And finally, one of my favourite images of the day. Again a snooted flash to camera right
Big thanks to Bukky, Miss Harriet and Ana !!
Apologies for the lack of updates recently. Have been absolutely flat out! The upside of that is I have a stack of cool images to share with you all.
First up, my shoot with the lovely Ashleigh Cleave-wallace. Ashleigh wanted to update her modeling portfolio with a few new looks. We decided to shoot 3 scenes in one 6 hour session around Shoreditch.
Of course there’s more to strong imagery than good lighting, so I called in my new favourite hair and make artist, the uber talented Ana Popescu
Abi at lastminutefashion.com supplied this cute 40s red dress, so we shot that first
A super quick re-style, then we headed outside to catch the falling sun. Being London and all there was bugger all of a sunset, so I gelled my flash blue (camera geeks, I used a Lee Full CTB)
so that we could then correct the colour back, in camera, to a neutral foreground. This removes blue from the image, which has the consequence of sending the sky orange. Flash was powered about 1.5stops above the ambient, which makes the sky darker and therefore a touch more interesting
Note it was pretty cold and windy, but Ashleigh pushed through just wearing her jacket between takes!
We all headed back inside for Ashleigh to thaw out, whilst Ana worked her magic again with another hair and make up change
I set up the hallway with a red gelled flash hiding in the back. This pic is taken from the back, you can see my strip light (used in the foreground) way at the other end
The strip light, un-gelled, so that we could get a small section of Ashleigh lit with clean white light
A quick change of background gel and we rolled off the final images
Thanks to Ashleigh and Ana 
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