My latest fashion shoot

I recently did a fashion shoot with Chloe Dolke, a talented new fashion model and a great team of hair stylist, fashion stylist and make up artist.

You can see two slideshows with selected images from the shoot by clicking here and here!





Katie Webster - Hair Stylist, Aradia Crockett - Fashion Stylist - www.fashionstylists.co.uk, Maria Watts - Makeup Artist.

My first purikura on Phozi

I just discovered Purikura on the SHOWstudio website and not having a photobooth nearby felt cheated in not being able to try the idea out. But googling purikura, I found a website that allowed you to mimic the idea with your own photos.
Purikura is an extraordinary form of self-portraiture which is reviving the practice of amateur print photography and creating a new genre of image-making with it. Deriving from a truncated Japanese translation of 'Print Club', Purinto Kurabu, the term Purikura refers to the photographic culture surrounding the modified 'Photo-Me'-style photo booths introduced to Japanese malls and amusement arcades by gaming companies ATLUS and SEGA in 1995.

Its a developing "art form" with some cool images coming out of a sea of Kitsch! I am going to keep an eye on it and maybe incorporate elements in some of my own photography, especially in fashion.

Fashion - Post production

I shot this image during my weeks Fashion Photography Practice course at the London College of Communication amongst maybe 150 images and since then I have started to go over what I took and begun to see what I can do with it. I liked this shot which has a bit of saucyness to it, but felt it lacked something.
I used SilkyPix Developer Studio 3, a well critiqued RAW processor that I am trialling, to process the original file (it seems a really good bit of software that gets the best out of RAW files), then imported it into Photoshop CS3 and applied various blurs and filters using masks for selecting areas and blended in varying proportions until I got what I liked.

What do you think - a great success, or much ado about nothing??

Fashion!

I have recently done some fashion shoots and you can see more of my work on my website.


I was taking a fashion photography practice course at the London College of Communication with photographer, Adrian Mott. He is an excellent teacher, imparting lots of useful information with wit and great clarity.