Posts Tagged ‘midland strobists’

The lady in the lake

After chatting with Rebecca at a previous shoot I discovered that she would really like to do a shoot with her partially submerged in water and after discussing the idea further we decided to do a shoot at a lake in Cannock with Rebecca  standing half submerged in a red dress that she owns.
The idea [...]

Shabby chic at the Mailbox

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 [...]

Beauty Retouch Using Dodge And Burn

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 [...]

XMen Shoot

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 [...]

Still no planes!!!!

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 [...]

What no planes?!

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 [...]