The start of a new personal project, "Mind, Body and Soul" looking at how the three elements interact to either enhance or deceive the viewer.
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ROJO®NOVA work in progress (02) from ROJO® on Vimeo.
Cal Mero Underwater Fashion Photographer from DivePhotoGuide.com on Vimeo.
Snow has come early to Sheffield, and the UK for that matter. Most people cannot remember a time in recent memory when the snow has been this bad. We had over a foot of snow fall in one night on Tuesday which virtually brought the city to a stand still. Only the brave/fool hardy were seen to be on the roads on Wednesday.
For more pictures of snow in and around my area please view my Snowy Sheffield Album on Flickr.
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Photographer: JonWHowson (Model Mayhem #725023/Purestorm)
Models: staciefoster (Purestorm)
Makeup: staciefoster (Purestorm)
Stylist: staciefoster (Purestorm)
Location: Scunthrope
A big thanks to Stacie for being willing to pose for this series. It was a pleasure to be able to work with more experienced models who know how to pose and what looks good without having to give them micro directions.
The lighting for this series of images was similar to the first set with Amie, with a soft box 45 degrees to the right of the camera. This time however, there was no lights on the background, but there was an additional flash situated upon my camera modified with a foam reflector to soften the light. (Details of this foam reflector can be found on Chuck Gardener's website DIY Reflector-Diffuser).
To see the earlier post when working with Amie, see the post An experiment into Art Nude and Draped Fabrics.
Clicking on the image at the top will take you to the series of images shot with Stacie.
If you, or you know someone that might be interested in posing for this project, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Here is a small selection from Sheffield's Fright Night 2010. People and events recorded between 3.30pm and 6.00pm.
More images can be found either on my facebook photography page or in the flickr set Sheffield Fright Night 2010
Outside of photography, I am a musician, and this is one of the rare occasions where one of the orchestras I perform with is actually recorded. Hope you enjoy.
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Photographer: JonWHowson (Model Mayhem #725023/Purestorm)
Model: Amie Grace (Model Mayhem #1730904)
Location: Home studio, Sheffield
Stylist: Amie Grace
First things first, a big thank to Amie in accepting to work with me on this project. I can only imagine what it is like to be on the other side of the camera, but was glad of Amie's experience of both sides of the camera.
This is my first venture into the realms of Fine Art work, and was a learning experience for myself in how to work with a model in this environment. The route I decided to go down was to try and involved Amie in as much as the process as possible, through ways of dressing her with the fabric to giving regular feedback via reviewing the images on the back of the camera.
Keeping it to the level of Implied nudes I feel helped with the comfort levels of the model. If you browse through the implied nude photographs of Amie, you can see that we started out with Amie wearing a white tube dress before moving on to using the fabric to cover her modesty.
The lighting for these images was kept simple with a soft box 45 degrees to the right of the camera, and at times, two lights to give a white background.
This is definitely a project I would like to pursue with other willing models. If you, or you know someone that might be interested in posing, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Clicking on the image at the top will take you to the series of images shot with Amie.
N.B. If you have the stomach for it, should I try this on the other side of the camera?
I have recently decided to step outside my comfort zone with my photography. I have shot lots of portraits for women, but rarely, if ever, done so for men. That is until Joshua was directed my way by a mutual friend who I had shot before. You have got to love the power of mouth to mouth publicity.
One of the problems that I came up against was with the posing. I have so many tips and ideas running through my head for how to pose a woman and to make her look feminine, but hardly any for a man. The only two tips that came to mind, were not to pose the head towards the higher should, and to have the whole body in two directions, that is the body facing one way, and the face and eyes in another. A woman though could have body facing one direction, her head a second, and her eyes a third.
So, the above image is just one of a series images taken for Joshua. They were taken in Whirlow Brook Park in Sheffield, and tried to show a variety of clothing styles.
Does anybody have any additional tips to improve my work with male posing and portfolio development?
I just seem to be having a run of luck of having to constantly re-arrange shoot with models. Minor things keep on cropping up to thwart our plans to shoot together. However, I finally managed to get a shoot in, after almost a month of not shooting anybody, thanks to Tina, above.
Tina has been a long term friend and responded to a call for a shoot I was doing, called "Fashionably Elegant on a Budget: 10 Items Every Woman Should Own". It is based on a newspaper article in the Telgraph newspaper. It lists a "Magnificent 10" items that every woman should have: a little black dress, stiletto shoes, matching handbag, a trench coat, a white blouse, cashmere pullover, jeans, a white T-shirt, a pearl necklace and lipstick. So far, all of the models I have worked with have not had the full 10 items so we have often improvised with other items of clothing as a substitute.
If you click on the above picture it will take you to flickr and other images from the series.
