Cashel & Cashel

I have know Cashel since senior school and through Facebook got back in touch. He asked if I could arrange a shoot with his son who was also called Cashel.

After spending only half an hour with them the images where don, is noce to have a clients who are relaxed and have a laugh it defiantly shows through the image.

A busy day.

Been a while since I blogged, just cos I have been so busy. However the following few blogs may be slightly out of chronological order.

Today was a long day the plan was to do a Time For Prints shoot with Kirsty first. I had seen a shoot with a chainsaw on the music video and decided I would see how it came out. This gave a perfect opportunity to do a shoot in the basement and due to the two wood burners we have there was a plentiful supply of wood. 

My second shoot of the day was with a new model called Sam, and this was our first shoot together. She is a lovely young lady and we did some studio shots. The first shoot is also a difficult one because, especially if its the first time you have met, there’s the whole tension thing about how each other reacts and works. The second the third shoots are much more relaxed. My third shoot was with a fantastically cute young girl called mini or min-min. You have got to admit she is cute? Its been a while since I had taken a dog in the studio, if my memory serves me correctly it was a labradoodle! 

 And finally a shoot with kay, which unfortunately these images are for portfolio use only and have cause a great deal of controversy amongst the critics that have seen them. Therefore I aren’t going to publish them.(yet!)

My first wedding blog from Whitby.

This is my first wedding blog, although I have done weddings all year, my blog site is still relatively new. 

As everyone knows a wedding is a special day for the bride and groom, where the bride looks a million dollars and the groom is nervous. Well today was no different, Amy looked more than a million dollars and although Jay didn’t let on, you could tell he was a little nervous. 

Amy had some specific locations she wanted shots taking in Whitby, and why not the place is so photogenic. This is a difficult one for me, do I try to copy every other wedding photographer in the area or try to do something different…. you know me why copy? so as we left west cliff we called at the Whale bones, Captain cooks Statue, The bandstand, the pier, 199 steps, east beach and the shambles market place. This scared me a little as the morning forecast was rain from around 1 o’clock perfect timing for the wedding. The walk was also interesting..... lots of people watching. 

However the gods where smiling on us and as we finished the group shot in the market square it started spitting! 

Just in time for the buffet. 

I really enjoyed the day and I wish Amy and Jay the very best in the future.

Kirsty & Matt

I have worked with Kirsty on previous occasions and she is in fact my half cousin. She booked me for a shoot with her partner Matt, I can’t say the reason just in case any of her family or friends are reading this………..



After a quick cuppa we started shooting, I wanted to do some new poses and try to get them to show some attitude. It was good practice for Kirsty as she is an aspiring model.



It really did me good, I’d had a bad day to that point and to do a shoot with two fun people really set me up for the day So thanks guys!

Kirsty @ Skinningrove

After the epic Angelic Bulldog shoot the other Saturday I made some fantastic new friends one of which is actually my half cousin. This I may hear you say “you should know her anyway she’s your cousin”. Well you would have thought that but no! I had chatted on Facebook to her but never actually met her until that Saturday. Kirsty really enjoyed the other day and felt she wanted to try her hand at some more modelling work. I suggested another shoot at some point, hence yesterday. We met up with Cashel who also did some modelling for the Angelic Bulldog. He was there just to catch up with both of us. The crisp autumn morning was the first for this year; the sea breeze was fresh and chilly to say the least. I thought Kirsty would have brought a little more clothing than a simple top! An hour or so of shooting was enough; I could hardly feel my hands.

 

One think that Cash never click onto is that I took some of him too … see what you think?

Charlie Don't Surf

Different shoot today, a commercial shoot for Charlie Don’t Surf of Saltburn. Harry runs a kite shop and his also a personal trainer with a gym next door. Jane also works as a personal trainer at the Gym; she too came along for the shoot. Harry had suggested he wanted some low light body forms of Jane and himself, to be used as commercial shots on their website http://www.charlie-dont-surf.co.uk .

 Whilst Jane and Harry readied themselves, Dave and I experimented with the light to get just the right amount on the subject. This lead to some interesting image of which I’m sure Dave is going to be angry at…. But it all in the name of art. We spent a good few hours shooting different poses and different levels of clothing. And I think the responses came out just right

Angelic Bulldog photo shoot part 2.

The second part to the Angelic Bulldog photoshoot I did. This time we have hit the big time and thanks to spending a full day of editing our friend Adam Steele of New Breed Films, Saltburn finally got the video ready for you all to view. To make this post complete i need to show you the final images from the day too...

Also I need to thank some poeple for the day. So here goes - thanks too...... BHive business centre for use of their building, Jemma,Sian,Kirsty,Kay,Cashel,Rachel,Carla and Holly for been terrific models, Keith for bringing the girls up from West Yorks, Paul, Steve and Kevin for use of their bikes, Sue and Bernie from BE All You Can for the catering and finally Adam for spending his Saturday editing the video.

All In all the best and biggest shoot i've ever been involved in and i bet it isn't the last...... Hope you enjoy the video.