A couple of weeks ago I did a shoot for Neil Hughes to help him promote his new entertainment agency. There were some fantastic models there wearing Neils amazing costume creations, made up with vibrant makeup and body painting by Neil and has brilliant creative team.
Here are my favouite shots:
I received an email out of the blue last month from Nigel Atherton, editor of What Digital Camera magazine, asking if he could use one of my images in a Flash Techniques supplement. As you can imagine, I said yes and here’s the picture in the magazine. November edition of What Digital Camera magazine. [...]
Back in April this year I did a photo shoot for Airy Fairy which is an alternative fashion shop, located in The Oasis in Birmingham. The model for the shoot was Sofi (Model Mayhem #1093764) a confident young lady who has really funky blue/green hair.
Katie, the owner of Airy Fairy who had commissioned the shoot, [...]
Back in June I did a photoshoot at Dartex Coatings, a manufacturing company who make material which has special coatings, such as high visibility material, silver impregnated material which is sterile and much more.
The shots are going to be used on there new website and also in marketing brochures. The marketing lady wanted to get [...]
Sometimes photo shoots go to plan and everything runs smoothly. This wasn’t one of those times.
The plan was to meet at 10am on a Saturday afternoon in the Mailbox in Birmingham with another photographer Rob Owen, a makeup artist Sonila Ellahi (Model Mayhem #1039297), and 4 models. It started well and I got there for [...]
Here’s a before, during and after shot of a new beauty editing technique I use. Dodging and Burning mostly with an additional skin tone adjustment layer. The original image was taken over a year ago using a homemade ring flash and a Canon 430ex flash.
The first step was to correct the exposure and apply an [...]
Back in April I got a phone call from Lola Hope asking if I would be interested in photographing her as Mystique and Fletch as Iceman. As you can tell I jumped at the chance.
It took the very talented Sarah-Jane 4 hours to body paint Lola as Mystique, and about an hour to do Fletches [...]
Later on in the day at RAF Cosford air meseum I returned to the Cold War building, this time with Stacey. Again I walked past all of the lovely old aircraft, as well as the tanks and straight to the back wall. What can I say, I love interesting walls or windows, much more that [...]
At a photoshoot in RAF Cosford aircraft museum you’d think there would be lots of pictures of old aircraft…well you’d be wrong. Instead, I found the most amazing window in the new Cold War exhibit and couldn’t resist getting Ruth to pose in front of it. Add in a funky metal bench and you get [...]
After several years posting my pictures to flickr, I decided it was time to get myself a website to showcase my work. Check out Arcadia Portfolios, their websites are really easy to setup and maintain.
I have initially posted a mix of the best commercial and portrait shots that I’ve taken over the last [...]
