No Virtual About it... A Beauty in Reality

Shoot number 2 on my lockdown photography Journey was with the gorgeous Ceira.

Slightly more complicated as Ceira isn't an Apple product user so we ended up using Whatsapp video to do the shoot and i have had to edit out the image of myself from all of these images.

more happy with the closer headshot style in these than the others, i just think they work better and show Ceira to her best. was also nice to look at some Black and White as i don't do an awful lot of Black and White conversion on my images.

Already desperate to have an actual in person shoot with Ceira, she has a great look and an equally awesome personaility and i really want to do in person work with her.

 

 

 

 

 

 

When Is A Photoshoot Not a Photoshoot

So the Covid-19 lockdown is in full force and i needed to have something positive in my day to stop me being quite as low as i have been recently,so when i had a chat with Ziggy about the potential of a Virtual Photoshoot after seeing some work done by others I was over the moon when she was up for it.

There are a few ways of doign these types of shoots but we went with using Facetime and the Facetime photo option that allows the photographer to take a picture using the models camera on her phone live during the shoot. This video on youtube helps explain the process.

We had a couple of themes in mind with the first being the #PillowChallenge which has been going around Scoial media. This uses a pillow attached by a belt to resemble an outfit, at least from the front.

We had another theme using white outfits that location wise didn't work but we went witht he outfit then rocked from there.

All the images were then edited on an ipad using Photoshop Fix and PS Express, really happy with how these turned out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michelle Helps at My Last Visit to Gray Room

this is likely to be my last visit to the Gray Room as I've got a busy month in January with normal life stuff happening and a holiday and with the Gray room closing for good when John hands back his keys on the 31st January this shoot with Michelle B is likely to be the last time i'll shoot there.

Michelle, who normally has quite an edgy gothic look came along and i was pushing her in a different direction wanting more of a fashion edge to the style we would be working on.

The lovely Emma was along also for some Make-Up duties and i'm pretty happy with how these have turned out. I was also looking to concentrate more on B&W as i don't really do enough of it.