A few days ago I worked up London, Bank with a friend of mine called Alex, she’s a Photographer/Model. We worked together to Photograph a model called Amy in clown make up and smart clothes in and around London, Bank. The idea of the photographic shoot was to poke fun at Business people and Banks. Hence why we Photographed at Bank. The shoot went well, we got a fair few people stopping to have a look and laughing etc. Only got moved on once, and that was only because apparently we where standing on some private company steps. So we just moved off the steps and on public property. They where very understanding, just asking us what we where doing, and said your fine to photograph as long as you don’t stand on the steps.
The Makeup, Location and Clothes combined very well. The make up was for a traditional clown. With a white face, blue eyes, red smile, the clothes where all smart business woman like, so black pencil skirt and smart blue top. Then the scene was a mix of Central Bank and other traditional style London roads with banks nearby, of course keeping in the Bank area. Alex applied and designed the style of makeup, she’s really good and creative at makeup.
All the equipment we used was mine, so that included Light Stands, Two SB800 Flash Guns, remote triggers and a Nikon D200.

I hope to work with Alex again on this idea, and hopefully expanded it a bit further. I hope Alex agrees, as it could turn into a really fun project. Mostly because you can poke fun at things but still keep it in the context of the original idea and still portray the same message through the images.

For the first time in a while, mostly due to Operation recovery and other things I finally got back into my Photography. I was invited out by Alex & Greg to help out with equipment and take a few photos, as they where doing a few shoots. Needless to say one can’t exactly be nimble after recovering from an operation. So it was a real challenge for me. As I can’t exactly easily bend, twist and move etc, something which I like to do when Photographing. I managed to fire of a few photos with one of the models, no idea how they came out because I was only just testing, and because Greg and Alex still have my Photography Equipment for other shoots. I’m slowly getting back into the grove of Photography again. Just don’t want to push myself to far at the moment!

Don’t get me wrong it was a lovely warm sunny day, heck even walked down and bought everyone some nice refreshing drinks and I enjoyed the company of my friends and the models who came. The models where really good and I hope to at some point quite possibly work with them. Of course before anyone asks the models get full digital high quality prints that can basically be printed into insanely big pictures, and if the timings right they may even get a few prints if I just happen to be doing a print run at the time.
I have never really worked with outside models as such, so it will be a learning curve for me I suppose. My models have all been my friends, mostly Alex and Zoe. So it’s really interesting working with different people, and maybe at the same time make some new friends! But also hope to learn a few things in the process.

I’m also trying to do alternative Photography, by that I mean taking pictures that have a specific meaning and lots of emotion. As it’s all fine and dandy doing Photography, but at the same time I want my photos to have feeling, maybe even a bit of personal influence. I like photography a lot but also want to inject some of my feelings and personality into my work. Basically adding your own little signature mark to an image etc. It’s something I hope to talk over with a friend of mine called Aimée. Who’s work I really like, mostly the way how she adds emotion and feeling to pictures. Check here and here.

I also did try out the whole expression theme as well, and I hope to continue and expand on that.