Nike Free Run 5.0 Photo shoot

We were given the brief for our next project and it was to shoot a 10 second moving image piece to advertise a shoe of our choice. We decided to go with a shoe that was built for sports and primarily running. Our theme was to have someone running through the forest being chased by something. 

The weather meant the video would be sunny and lots of highlights so too make the movie look dark and mysterious would be very difficult. This is a few behind the shots from the day shooting. I wanted to get a few detail shots to go along with the video.

 This was the second part of our project. We were too show of the shoe in the studio. I wanted to go for a very advertising heavy look. The gels were on a honeycombed reflector and a snoot. I would like to have had too snoots but i thought this would look fine. I would like to revisit this too shoot it exactly how i want it.

Creative Portraiture

After been given a brief at University for our first module. We were asked to do portraiture. 2 photos on the streets and 1 in a studio situation.
The street portraiture part of the project was a test to see if we could approach strangers and ask them if they would mind if we took their portrait. I found this really exciting because i like meeting and talking to new people. I don't mind approaching people and starting conversations with people ive never met before.

I really wanted to find interesting people and not to look an 'average joe'. As i was walking around Newcastle, i saw a man standing on the charles grey monument. He was having a cigarette and when i finally approached him i found he was waiting for friends. I told him about i was documenting the people of Newcastle and that i was envious of his beard. We had a cigarette together and then i finally got the camera out and photographed him. He had no objections towards having his photo taken.

 For the creative we had to create a hat using what ever we wanted. I chose to create a look a like of the crown of thorns from the bible. The lighting i used was one soft box to camera right and it was high up.

Fashion Bikini Look Book Finals

For college we had the task of shooting a look book for a fashion company. I didnt chose a brand as such but i just went with swimwear. The shoot was deathly cold, I shot at northumberland up a hill were it was 20mph winds and near freezing.
I loved my outdoor lighting, the 2 soft boxes looked great.
Have a look!

Look Book Practise

This week i took flashheads out from my college and practised with them at home. I am shooting a fashion look book for college so wanted to test lighting and poses with my model. The two Flashheads at first did have problems talking to each other with the infra red connection. The flash at first wasnt travelling far enough to hit the unit. I wanted to see how ND filters helped out with flash and shallow depth of field. The final shots came out nice. The poses work also for the swimwear i am shooting.

Barcelona

This week i visited Barcelona  I went with my college and stayed on la ramblas. The city was so beautiful and relaxing. I wanted to shoot portraits and simplistic landscapes.