I want to take this blog back to basics in 2019 and get to sharing more work, so why not start early. These blog posts for the most part won’t be word heavy because let’s face it… it’s about the images.
The images in this post are form a shoot with my friend and model extraordinaire Emma and my friend, Second Shooter, Assistant and all-round top bloke but not a model Stuart.
As a working photographer it’s important to give yourself some time to create new work that is not under a set brief. It’s frees my mind and allows me to try things and experiment. I will experiment on client jobs but only once I feel that the brief has been met.
Enough talk…
#GOYA
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A Shoot with Sarah Angel
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Hello and Happy New Year. All the best for everyone in 2017 no wait… 2018! - I'm the person that will be writing 2017 for the next 6 months until I finally remember it's 2018.
Starting this year this blog is being brought back to client work and personal work only. For the technical and photograph tutorial related blog posts you can go check out my other blog – The Craft.
This shoot is one of the last shoots of 2017 (the others are in post-production).
I have photographed Sarah a few times and she always brings a ton of energy to a shoot/set. We started with the blue background to A fit the looks and ideas and B to break away from White Seamless for a little while, although you will see that I ended up back on that classic setup later on.
As a photographer sometimes, it’s on you to come up with an idea for a shot or a lighting setup that fits but thankfully a lot of the time the work comes from a collaboration and a team. I have always considered any shoot to be a collaboration, they just have to be… I work with people (clients, models, students, assistants, MUA’s) and everyone is part of the team for that job. Anyway let’s get to the images.
A beautiful location and some friends = A Great Day and a few thought on this craft called Photography
in #GOYA, Personal Work
As a photographer working with clients and helping other photographers to improve their craft it’s far too easy to forget about what is at times the most important in all of this... YOU.
This craft is amazing. A simple black box of bits and wires (The Camera) can introduce you to some amazing people and open many doors that might stay closed or otherwise undiscovered, But it can kick your ass any day of the week and twice on Sunday if you forget to take care of yourself and if you let it.
We all need down time from work and other things in life, but it can be difficult to remember that in today’s busy world.
For me my down time has been left on the side lines and I needed to do something about it. You might think that picking the camera up would be the exact opposite of down time but you would be wrong.
I Need #04 #GOYA - Shira
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Back in August I wrote a blog post asking for subjects for me to shoot. I needed to run the camera, lens and lights, produce new work… do something.
This came from a place where I was spending more time thinking about shooting for myself and doing other work instead of actually doing something for myself. Whilst this may sound like a personal project it’s not I have those planned and ready to kick start soon.
If you would like to help me out and allow me to shoot some portraits of you, you can apply via this post. This is the 4th shoot and I have time for another 4 before I close the doors on this and move forwards.
So on to #GOYA #04.
Shira contacted me after seeing the post and images from #GOYA #03 with Laura. It’s been quite humbling to see people give up their time for me and to step in front of a camera.
It was a pleasure meeting and photographing Shira, she’s quite a character. Do you ever ask your subject or client if they can sing during a shoot? I sometimes do with a plan to capture the reaction after the fact… well, Shira started to sing. I did grab a few reaction frames during though.
I want to also shout thanks to my friend Kevin Timmons for assisting me on the day and for jumping in amongst the reeds to hold a light for the main shot at the top of this post.
You can see a few more images from the shoot in the gallery below.
Thank You
Rick