Bunny Pumpkin Boutique

So recently, I had the chance to shoot for Bunny Pumpkin Boutique - Bunny Pumpkin Boutique is a bespoke customised vintage footwear business that offers unique designed footwear which is created by hand, and that is exclusive to each customer who makes a purchase. The shoes are amazing and I had so much fun organising this shoot around the theme of the business. The theme was 1950's pin-up, so I had a lot of ideas and spent a lot of time researching what I thought would be best for this specific brief!

My make-up artist was Elle Darby. Elle posts her make-up tutorials on YouTube, and after only posting a couple she has gained amazing reception from friends, family and other make-up enthusiasts, so after doing abit of homework and with me being a fan of her YouTube videos anyway I thought she would be the best person to ask! We decided on a typical 1950's look, with the winged eyeliner and red lip look, this worked so well and I couldn't of been happier with the results from hair and makeup!! I will be keeping in contact with Elle so we can both gain experiences and help from each other! Check out Elle's wonderful YouTube channel here: Elle Darby

My amazing model Ami-Lou, who you can find on Facebook, Ami Lou, again was an absolute pleasure and joy to work with. When Elle and I arrived she was so welcoming and friendly, (made us both a lovely cup of tea!!) and time flew by! She was so easy going and brilliant to work with, she was also beautiful!! I honestly couldn't of asked for a better model for this shoot and I will definitely be staying in contact with her for future shoots!

Here are just a handful of my favourite images - I found the most amazing airstream diner for my chosen location, which I absolutely loved shooting at. It was such a quirky location and it was definitely perfect for the whole theme of the shoot! I hope you guys love the images as much as I do! :)

 

 

 

Let me know what you think guys! :)

Laura xx

Inspiration Hour!

So every now and again I like to spend an hour or so looking at new or previous photographers, artists or inspirations of mine to keep my ideas up to date and to also think of new ways I can improve my own photography. This week I have been looking at another one of my favourite all-round photographers Shaun Alexander. Shaun is a top fashion and advertising photographer who specialising in anything you can imagine, his portfolio is literally never ending! I spent a good house looking at his website, his images and his career as a whole. He really is an inspiration and his work is very unique and one of a kind! The quality of imagery is very high, and with him creating and working with numerous advertising campaigns, Cosmetic campaigns, and Editorial Campaigns. Fashion designers, high fashion magazines, advertising companies, fashion editorial, celebrities, magazine covers, his work is known famously worldwide, with the standard of photography and work always growing after every shoot of his.


If you have time please check out his amazing website! (You wont be disappointed!)

http://www.shaunalexander.net/

Laura xx

Editorial Throwback!

So I have recently been looking through my images that I shot during my first year of University. I came across a really exciting shoot that I did back with Steve, a photographer who also studies with me. During this specific shoot, we spent the whole day with the model and the MU artist. We took our cameras over to the media make-up studio in the other building and photographed the model getting ready and transforming into a beautiful mystical creature!

These things take time, so I spent atleast 3 hours chatting and photographing the model as I went, capturing stages of the transformation. It was such an amazing experience, being able to see the model being transformed, and the stages the MU artist went through to complete the look was fascinating and definitely needed someone with a lot of patience and a model who was willing to sit that long!

Here are just a few shots during the transformation stages. I love the depth of field within these images, which really allowed me to focus on the model and the makeup artist. Blurring out the background really helped me to create attention to detail in the models face and how delicate the whole process was. I also love the imperfections with some of the images, the mirror is slightly smudged and none of it was staged, which definitely makes these images stand out.

I then got onto shooting the model in the studio, Steve and I set up the studio whilst the model was having the final touches of her make-up done so we were organised and ready for when they came over. I was so excited but nervous because I wanted to capture some really striking images to do the work justice! I took a lot of images but there is one that really is in a league of its own. I love the way the light has fallen on this particular image, almost as if it is lighting up the most important parts of the image, creating and leaving shadows on the face, the ears and the dress to create depth and contrast. I absolutely love it, I think its beautiful and it was definitely worth the wait capturing an image like this one!

 

 

 

 

 

Ill be blogging again soon, thanks for reading!

Laura :) xx

 

My Favourite Photographers!

For this blog post I decided to talk about my favourite photographers and what inspires me as a photographer.

I look at a lot of other photographers work and a lot of their work really inspires me and the way I work. Obviously every photographer has their own style but it doesn't stop you from having a look at what's popular and what other photographers are doing to help gather ideas and to add to a board or folder for future shoots. Two photographers I really love the work of are Marco Grob and Chris Nicholls.

Both work as fashion, portraiture and advertisement photographers, but both with two different styles of shooting.

My first inspiration is Chris Nicholls, a fashion photographer but with a very different style to Marco Grob. One of my most favourite group of images is an editorial piece with model Herieth Paul for the September 2013 edition of Fashion Magazine. His work is absolutely beautiful and shot in the most amazing places with stunning models, again his work captivates the eye, but in a different way to that of Marco Grob's work. I would love to produce images like Chris does, you can tell his passion for photography leaks through his images, which is how every photographer should work. Chris makes sure his images are picture perfect, displaying elegance and beauty with definition and simplicity. I could honestly look at his work all day long and I believe his amazing images speak for themselves. I aspire to become what he has become during his career as a fashion photographer.

My second inspiration is Marco Grob, known as the master of faces, he produces captivating images of people using his well known lighting techniques, sculpting the light to suit the specific facial shape. He uses Elinchrom with the use of Monoheads to create the light, with this lighting being particularly powerful and one that gives off a light all in the right places! I absolutely love love love his work, especially as he works 90% in black and white, gives it a very pure feel about it, like its just Marco, the light and the person, without any colour or Photoshop interfering with the image, which it really doesn't need! Although his images are so simple to the eye, it is in hindsight work that once you see it, will stick in your mind, it is that powerful.

This image is just wow! It really does make me speechless looking at an image so perfectly lit which defines Leonardo Dicaprio in every single nook and crannie! This has to be one of my favourite black and white portrait images in a long time, it will be very hard to beat!!

I did try for myself, a go at the way Marco Grob works and I tried to position the lighting to make my image look as Grob like as I could! This is my outcome which I am very pleased with and proud of!!

Until next time!

Laura xxx