Thursday 24 November 2016

Diane Spencer-Comedian

I recently got together with the fantastic and very funny Diane Spencer (www.dianespencer.tv/) to produce some promo images for her and some images for my forthcoming female portrait business 'GLORIOUS'
As you can see below, i've put the original images with the final uses on Diane's site here for comparison.

Now the technical bit...
To achieve the black background, I had a black backdrop but light does spill from the one flash onto the background so the 'Inverse Square Law' comes into action (you can Google that!)
basically the nearer the light to the subject at a given exposure has more light 'fall off'', so the light doesn't reach the background, thus making it black (to match the background on Diane's site and channel)


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The following image of Diane was for some marketing images for my forthcoming female portrait
business, the aptly named- 'GLORIOUS'

Diane changed into a glamorous sparkly top and we took some images in different poses, this one was in front a of a black backdrop so her red hair and golden top jumped out from the background.
I have edited the image to some degree, but you can see Diane's natural beauty with cheekbones to die for........







Sunday 22 May 2016

Michael Fabbri:Comedian

I recently photographed Comedian Michael Fabbri to create some promo images, some to be used on the BBC website for a forthcoming piece about Dyslexia, and others for general use.
He came to the studio with some changes of clothes and we shot a images with different looks and expressions, below is a standard headshot...






















































































































































































As I was taking all my equipment upstairs to the studio, I noticed the lights in the corridor were very stylish, completely round with no wires attached- I thought it would make a great background element in an images so as we were wrapping up the shoot I mentioned doing some shots in the corridor in front of the lights, this was for a totally different look, black and white with stark lighting from a flash on a stand, see below.
It's always a good idea to look round and take notice of items that can be incorporated into a shoot, weather it's a great background or an interesting light........

Wednesday 20 January 2016

Advert

I designed a small advert that I can send to various agencies to advertise my photography, bit difficult to choose images to put on it but I think I did a good job.....


Monday 4 January 2016

Dan Evans:Comedian

When shooting Comedians at work I always try to get the audiences reactions to the punch lines, a bit tricky when the audience is facing away from me, but in this particular case the blond lady at the front was turning round to share her laughter with her friends-and Dan Evans really made them laugh....