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Photoset - Angel (Part 1)

I have a serious problem... I edit far too many images from a lot of my shoots. I just can't help it; I've tried weeding out more images and being more selective, but then I realise I still have a crazy number that I have selected. So I go through them again, and again, and maybe remove a couple each time. 

I'm sure you guys aren't complaining and I know the models I shoot with don't feel it's a problem at all 😂

This is Part 1 of a big set that I made with Sian when we wer...

Photoset - Red Nudes featuring Emma

It's more than a year since I shot with the stunning Emma, but I am very much hoping for a second shoot at some point this year. One of my subscribers recently asked if I had any more images of Emma, and going back through Lightroom I realised that for some inexcusable reason I had only edited a couple from this set. I think at the time I had already edited so many from our shoot and I had a lot of other shoots going on so these fell by the wayside.

Some of these images were shot using ...

Photoset - Hard light black and white

The last time Jordan came over to shoot I had sent her a moodboard which was pretty much all images of Debbie Harry and Blondie, most taken by photographer Mick Rock. Purely by coincidence, Jordan identified as favourites the exact same images that I liked the most. I have already posted a red set that we shot on that shoot, and this was the final set we shot on that day.

It's fairly rare that I use a hard light, which is just because of personal preference, but maybe I should use it mo...

Photoset - Lingerie in Black and White

Happy New Year!

The two models I get the most messages about are Tayla and Sian, and they happen to also be two of my absolute favourite models to shoot with. I had a message from one of my patrons asking for more background information about how I find the models I shoot with, what it is like shooting with certain models and how I go about planning my shoots, so I thought this might be a good place to start.

Tayla and I "met" through 2024-01-02 17:07:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Photoset - First shoot with Suki

Apologies for my quietness over the past few days - I was away for Christmas with family. I am now back briefly before heading off again tomorrow for NYE. I want to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support over the past year, it has far exceeded my expectations when I set up my Patreon and I am truly grateful. I hope you all have a fabulous NYE, and a wonderful 2024!

I recently had the privilege of shooting with the fabulous Suki, possibly the most inked model I have shot...

Photoset - Colour or Black and White? (Part 1)

I very rarely produce colour and black and white edits of my images. For me it is generally either or. In fact, if I decide that a set is going to be in black and white then I do the conversion before I start retouching, in which case there will be no colour versions of the final edits of that particular set. However, Florence and I had decided in advance that this would be a colour set, and also I knew which tones I would use. However, after I had finished editing the set I thought I'd see w...

Photoset - Studio Shoot with Sammiii

It was great to welcome Sammiii to my place a while back and we had been discussing shooting together for quite some time. It was definitely worth the wait and we are hoping to work again at some point in the new year.

Photoset - Red Light

I recently received a message from one of my patrons, asking if I had any more images of the stunning Emma. I need to get better at keeping a record of what I have posted on here, as I was sure I had posted these some time ago. However, before I realised that I had not posted these, I went back through the images from my first shoot with Emma and spotted that there was a whole other lovely set of images that I had never edited. I have now rectified that and will be posting them sometime soon....

Photoset - Tearing Tights

This is a set from my second shoot with the incredible Vanda, who has fast become one of my favourite models to shoot with. She has an incredibly creative mind, which is like gold dust to me as a photographer as it makes for some really interesting collaborative shoots.

This set was shot in my home studio area using just the natural light form the window. Vanda is wearing little (if any) makeup, and the images have only been very lightly retouched to remove a few blemishes.

One of...

Sian at Burford Manor (Part 4)

The final set of images from our mammoth final set that we shot during our day at Burford Manor. There are more sets to come so please watch this space.

Sian at Burford Manor (Part 3)

Burford Manor has a huge number of rooms, as well as extensive grounds and a big old barn. Sian and I spent eight hours shooting there, but due to the poor weather we stayed in the main house, and we still didn't manage to shoot in every room. This whole series was our final set of the day, and as I have mentioned in previous poses, we treated is as a gradual striptease, with Sian removing items of clothing as we moved from room to room. We knew exactly where we wanted to finish - there is a ...

Photoset - Flash Jordan

Jordan seems to be pretty popular on here, based on the requests I have been getting for more images. These were shot on our recent shoot in my home studio, and were loosely inspired by some of Mick Rock's classic shots of Debbie Harry.

Photoset - Black and White in the Studio (Part 3)

The final set of black and white images from my shoot with the beautiful Josie. Stay tuned for the rest of the images form this shoot - Josie in a red lingerie bodysuit on a red backdrop, and then using the same backdrop, Josie wearing a handful of different yellow Kill Bill style tops that I had acquired over time.

Photoset - Faking Natural Light

Full photoset of Sasha, as promised in my recent post where I explained the lighting setup I used.

Photoset - Leona at the Nobu Hotel Part 2

A while back I posted the first set of images from shoot with the fabulous Leona at the Nobu Hotel in Shoreditch. Here is Part 2.

These were all shot using the natural light - the room had a fantastic floor to ceiling window. However, it was also a sunny but cloudy day out, so we were still battling constantly changing lighting conditions at times.

Lighting Set-Up - Faking Natural Light

You will have seen in some of my recent posts that I have been using natural light in my studio space. For these shoots I have made use of window in my studio, through a sheer curtain for privacy (it looks out onto the street and for most of my shoots the curtains are firmly closed). However, there are two problems with this. Firstly I can't get even full length coverage as there is a dining table that we have moved in front of the window to give me space to shoot. And secondly, and far more ...

Playboy Bunny Shoot

The fabulous Tilly recently popped a casting call onto her Instagram stories, asking for photographers who would be interested in shooting a Playboy Bunnygirl set. I replied instantly and I think she took the casting call down right away lol Tilly and I love working together, but she knows I have a lot on and will often not message me directly about shooting, as she worries that she is taking advantage. I've tried to set her straight on this but she's just far too nice!

In a couple of h...

Sian at Burford Manor (Part 2)

This time in the snooker room.

Watch this space for Part 3, as we move on to the bedroom!

Double Denim

This set is from my recent first shoot with the fabulous Georgia (aka @maleficent_model). When we were shooting these I had fully decided that I was ging to edit them in colour, in a similar style to some of my previous denim photoshoots in the studio. I even did all the Lightroom adjustments and pre-retouching toning to them (admittedly using one of my presets as a starting point). However, the colours just d...

Black and White Natural Light with Jordan

Last month I posted a couple of sets of images that I made on my first shoot with the stunning Jordan. That shoot was arranged through her agency, with whom I have worked on a number of occasions over the past two years or so. However, on that first shoot in London I discovered that Jordan lives just a 20 minute drive from me, so we quickly booked in a second shoot at my place.

These images were shot just using natural light from a window with a sheer white curtain hanging in front (jus...

Sian at Burford Manor (Part 1)

As promised in a previous post, here are the first images from the huge set I shot with Sian towards the end of our day at Burford Manor last May. We planned this set to be a gradual striptease from fully clothed to nude, moving around the house to the different rooms and using only available light. We knew where we wanted to start and where we wanted to end up at the end of the set, and for the rest we just chased the best light. From this room we moved into the snooker room at Burford, and ...

Studio Nudes with Sophie

A while back I posted a set of natural light images that I created with the fabulous Sophie Stonem. On that first shoot we also did some studio work, and here is just one of the sets we made together. I'm very much hoping there will be many more shoots with Sophie to come in the future!

Blown White Background with Tayla + Lighting Set-up

As promised, here is the other set I made recently with Tayla using a bright white background. Back before the pandemic I used this set-up a fair few times, but then packed it away and moved on to other styles. However, I have some projects coming up where I hope to use it, and this shoot gave me the opportunity to refresh my brain on how to do it.

I have included a lighting diagram with this post. In order to achieve this style I used a 2023-10-22 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Blown White Background With Tayla

The last time Tayla came over to shoot we didn't really have much of a plan. Tayla had asked if we could do something a little more commercial in style -  she is a dancer and wanted some images that she could use within her dance portfolio. As I hadn't produced any images with a bright white background for quite some time I thought it would be the prefect time to dig out the necessary equipment and give it a go.

We produced two sets with the blown white background. This colour set ...

On Location with Jordan (Part 2)

Over the past few months I have become increasingly inspired by images, films and music from the late 1970s and the 1980s. The work of photographers such as Anton Corbign, Derek Ridgers and Kevin Cummins has been very much in the forefront of my mind when I have been planning some of my shoots, especially my outdoor shoots. In fact, I have rediscovered my love of shooting on location (just in time for the winter!) and hope to do a lot more of it in the future. It was, after all, pretty much a...

On Location with Jordan (Part 1)

Back in the summer I had the pleasure of a first shoot with the stunning Jordan, thanks to the working relationship I have built with Vauhaus Agency. We spent a couple of hours wandering around Shoreditch and Brick Lane, and I got a crazy number of images that I absolutely love. These were shot under a railway bridge, so the light is lovely and soft - it's a very popular location for model photography!

Jordan has an incredible look and as an actor brings that little something extra to a...

Photoset - Black and White in the Studio (Part 2)

As promised, here are more black and white images from my shoot with the stunning Josie. Still plenty more to post from this set, including some of my favourite red images that I've made so far.

Natural Light At Burford Manor

A while back I posted a set of images of Sian that I shot at Burford Manor in Kent. Sian and I spent eight hours shooting there on that day and so there are plenty more images from that day still to come. Sian is out of the country until December so I have been spacing my editing out so that I drip feed her the edits whilst she is away. She loves this as every now and again she gets a surprise WhatsApp message full of images!

I am currently working my way through the final set we shot o...

Natural Light Nude Portraits

I recently had the pleasure of welcoming the stunning Florence back to my home studio. I have been doing a few shoots recently using the natural light that comes into my studio, using a sheer white curtain to hide us away from the neighbours, and I was keen to utilise Florence's acting skills and get some personality into the nude images. Of course, Florence absolutely smashed it!

Photoset - "Breathe"

No long caption or explanation for these images, as I feel they speak for themselves. After my first shoot with the fabulous Vanda she created a list of ideas she had for shoots, and I was very flattered that she pencilled my name next to quite a few of them, this being one of them. It was a shoot I had wanted to do for quite some times anyway, and Vanda proved to be the perfect model for it!